[Vantage Point] The math behind Ramon Ang’s Lopez bet
Ramon Ang may not have bought the entire Lopez empire, but through Illumina, he bought a place near its summit—and an invitation from Piki Lopez to help shape what comes next
Ramon Ang may not have bought the entire Lopez empire, but through Illumina, he bought a place near its summit—and an invitation from Piki Lopez to help shape what comes next
Every side is telling the public the same thing, that this is a stabilizing, peace-building move, not a takeover. Nothing filed so far proves or disproves that. What comes next will show whether it holds.
So far, what has actually changed hands is one family branch’s stake in the private company at the very top of the Lopez empire. Whether it leads to a direct ABS-CBN rescue is a question about what Ang, and the Lopez family, do next.
Mitsubishi is also betting that its decades-old brand loyalty and established customer base can hold their own against newer rivals such as BYD, as it targets a 20% market share this year
What the resignation of Roberta Lopez-Feliciano from Lopez firm, First Philippine Holdings Corporation, means in the Lopez family feud…for now
The rollback gives motorists another week of relief after steep July increases, though prices remain elevated compared with levels prior to the US and Israel war on Iran
The reduction was tempered by higher pass-through costs as well as the additional P8.7-billion collection that ERC permitted
I require my students to use AI, and some have called this out in my teaching evaluations. My defense is that they will compete with and alongside these systems the moment they graduate, and exposure under supervision beats discovery under pressure.
When the MSCI adds, removes, or reweights a stock, passive fund managers have no choice but to purchase newly added stocks and dump deleted stocks