Monday, July 9, 2007

ING's Garcia Seeks `Unpopular' Stocks for Biggest Philippine Equity Fund

(Bloomberg) -- Paul Joseph Garcia runs the largest
equity fund in the Philippines, where the market is so small that
the value of stocks bought and sold in a day, $83 million, is
only 5 percent that of Microsoft Corp.'s turnover.

He has to be careful his trades don't influence share
prices, since big orders have a disproportionate effect in a
thinly traded market, Garcia said. His 6.7 billion-peso ($146
million) Philippine Equity Fund is twice as large as the
country's No. 2 fund. It also can be hard to find buyers or
sellers for large purchases.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

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