FTSE upgrade puts Vietnam on global investors’ radar, now investability must follow

FTSE upgrade puts Vietnam on global investors’ radar, now investability must follow

FTSE Russell has added 27 Vietnamese stocks to the FTSE Global All Cap Index as part of its September semi-annual review. In an interview with VIR’s Hazy Tran, Thomas Nguyen, Chief Global Markets Officer at SSI Securities said that FTSE Russell’s inclusion could bring billions in passive inflows, but the bigger opportunity lies in Vietnam’s institutional transformation.