The peso has quietly moved from around 55 to the dollar in May 2025 to nearly 61 today, one of the weakest levels we’ve seen historically. And while most people immediately focus on the negatives, every market event has two sides. A weaker peso hurts importers because they need more pesos to buy the same amount of US dollars for imported goods. But on the other side, exporters benefit because they earn in US dollars while many of their expenses remain in pesos. And there’s an

The share prices of the Philippines’ two largest property developers — Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) and SM Prime Holdings Inc. (SMPH) — have now fallen below their pandemic-era lows. The broader market in the Philippines isn’t far behind. You can interpret this in several ways: 1.⁠ ⁠Pandemic-level panic When COVID-19 first hit, global markets collapsed almost overnight. Investor psychology shifted from “growth forever” to “what if everything stops.” Fast-forward to today: the Philip

The History of Ayala Alabang In the 1960s, after successfully developing Makati, the Ayala family sought new ventures in property...

The BSP has recently cut their benchmark rate by 0.5% over the past two months. Does this mean your existing mortgage rate will...

Client: "...I purchased a property in [Location] for PHP 30 million in 2018. Someone is interested in buying it for PHP 42.75 million.

Here's another best practice we could adopt from banks.

Once upon a time, a developer was building a new city. To attract residents, they donated land to an educational institution.

Here are some numbers attributed to POGO operations. These are quick and dirty computations just for the fun of it.

How do POGO operations work?

The President just announced the total ban of POGO in the PH. Here’s a repost of how POGO started.