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Felipe Medalla

“Bangko Sentral Governor Felipe Medalla has joined other economic managers in pushing the enactment of a bill creating a Maharlika Investment Fund. The joint statement was issued after the bill's proponents at the House of Representatives changed the contentious provisions that Medalla raised concerns on, such as funding sources, chairmanship and the number of independent members of the board.”

Vera Files rated this: Needs context

Vera Files says: While Medalla did not categorically oppose the creation of the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF), he earlier expressed reservations over the MIF, raising the issue of governance and the fund’s potential impact on the doll…

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Sandro Marcos

“Former senator Bam Aquino was the originally proponent of a sovereign wealth fund similar to the Maharlika Wealth Fund recently proposed by House Speaker Martin Romualdez and Rep. Sandro Marcos.”

Vera Files rated this: Needs context

Vera Files says: Bam Aquino, a cousin of the late president Benigno Aquino III, indeed filed a bill creating a sovereign wealth fund. However, Aquino’s bill provided that funding for the SWF would come from the General Appropriations Ac…