By ISABELLA OLIVARES
Nowadays, most of us seem to live life from day-to-day, ticking off items in our bullet journals and writing out tomorrow’s to-do list. But every once in a while we need to plan a couple of years ahead, and nothing spells out future planning like expanding your stock portfolio.
But for those of us who clock in the usual nine to five, it’s difficult to keep track of all these stocks and call our brokers. That’s why First Metro Securities Brokerage Corporation of the Metrobank Group is launching FundsMart, a mutual funds online platform that invest in mutual funds with the six leading fund houses in the country using their web-based online trading platform, FirstMetroSec Online. With FundsMart, you can invest and redeem mutual funds with no additional paperwork, sales loads and transaction fees with only one online trading account.
Accompanying FundsMart is the company’s new mobile application, available on both iOS and Android. With this application, you can check and trade stocks wherever and whenever you want.
FundsMart was launched along with FirstMetroSec Online’s enhanced mobile application and the FirstMetroSec Margin facility last Feb. 22 in Valkyrie at The Palace. Joining the brokerage companies were Sun Life Financial, Philequity Management, Inc., Philam Asset Management, Inc., BPI and the ATR Asset Management Group. Guests were treated to a grand raffle as well as a panel with some of the country’s greatest minds in stock brokerage, including FirstMetroSec president Gonzalo Ordonez.
If you want to build your future while living for today, then start investing with First Metro Securities!
For more information, visit www.firstmetrosec.com.ph
(Guests line up at the Philequity Management, Inc. Booth)
(Winning prizes at the Sun Life Asset Management booth)
(Participants try to hit a bullseye at the Philam Asset Management Inc. booth)
LED dancers entertained guests with their futuristic performance)
(First Metro Securities chairman Rabboni Arjonillo gives his opening remarks)
(Ricky Espiritu, Valerie Pama, Phillip Hagedorn, Eric Lustre and Edmundo Bunyi stand behind Vincente Cuna, Augusto Cosio Jr., Rabboni Arjonillo, Francisco Sebastian, Martin Dy Buncio, Robert Yu, Marie Gamboa, Gonzalo Ordoñez and Shawn Yao)
(Heads of the six biggest mutual fund providers in the country get interviewed by Bloomberg TV journalist Shawn Yao; (FROM LEFT) Ricky Espiritu, Eric Lustre, Valerie Pama, Edmundo Bunyi, Phillip Hagedorn and Augusto Cosio Jr.)
(FAMI president Augusto Cosio Jr. being interviewed by Shawn Yao)
(First Metro Securities vice president Mhelvin F. Abajon shares his speech about margin trading — one of the 3 products launched that night)
(First Metro Securities president Gonzalo G. Ordoñez delivers his speech)
(The First Metro Securities’ Account Opening booth)
(Edmundo Bunyi, Eric Lustre and Valerie Pama)
(Ramir Libre, Marvin Germo and Aaron Say)
(Toby Pañares, Ton Patron, Phillip Hagedorn, Deanno Basas and Noel Reyes)
