PLANO ng Macquarie Group Ltd., isang kompanya sa Australia, na mag-invest sa renewable energy sector ng Pilipinas.

Ayon kay Macquarie Group Managing Director at CEO Shemara Wikramanayake, bukod sa renewable energy, balak din nilang mamuhunan sa mining at digitalization.

Sinabi ng opisyal ang plano nila sa pulong kay Pangulong Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. sa sidelines ng ASEAN-Australia Special Summit sa Melbourne, Australia.

“I am excited to talk about what more we can be doing in the Philippines because at the moment we do advisory work in investment banks. We bring our balance sheet to invest in,” pahayag ni Wikramanayake.

“The whole digitization process, we’re excited about. Also, the energy transition we’re excited about … we certainly invest in digitization and we invest in energy transition and in mining and building bigger advisory businesses,” dagdag ni Wikramanayake.

Ipinaliwanag niya na interesado sila sa Pilipinas dahil ating demographic profile na mayroong mga bata at maraming manggagawa.

Ayon kay Wikramanayake may sapat na pondo ang Macquarie Group para mag operate hindi lamang sa Amerika at Europa kundi sa Southeast Asia.

Nagpasalamat naman si Pangulong Marcos kay Wikramanayake. “We somehow have fallen behind in that regard, and we’re trying to catch-up,” pahayag ni Pangulong Marcos.

“I don’t see any part of what we’ve discussed so far that is not applicable to our ground plan for the economy of the Philippines. So, again, we’re very open to any insights you might have to improve investment terrain in the Philippines,” dagdag ng Pangulo.

May operasyon na ang Macquarie Group Limited sa Pilipinas sa nakalipas na 15 taon at may 1,000 direct employees.

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Chona Yu