Vietnam might have one of the fastest growing logistics industries in the world, but it remains highly fragmented.

VOV.VN - After 17 years, The VinaCapital Foundation (VCF)’s flagship program Heartbeat Vietnam proudly reaches a remarkable milestone – saving 10,000 disadvantaged children with congenital heart defects (CHD) so that all children can grow up healthy, fulfill their dreams and families can be transformed forever.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has yet to lose its advantage as an attractive destination for foreign investment flows, although in the short term investors are carefully considering their decisions, according to Nguyen Xuan Thanh, a lecturer of the Fulbright School of Public Policy and Management.

The global corporate minimum tax is unlikely to impede Vietnam’s FDI inflows given the fact that tax incentives are not the primary attraction for setting up a factory in Vietnam, Michael Kokalari, chief economist at investment fund VinaCapital, said.

VinaCapital, Vietnam’s most diversified asset manager, and A.P. Moller Capital, a global fund manager focused on high growth markets, have set up a joint platform to grow and scale investments in transportation and logistics infrastructure in Vietnam.

With the Government’s initiatives to address disappointing GDP growth in the first quarter and the fact that foreign companies’ orders are likely to increase in the second half of the year, the economy is expected to rebound then, Michael Kokalari, chief economist at investment fund VinaCapital, has said.

The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapse by itself will end up being neutral for Vietnam’s stock market and economy, Michael Kokalari, chief economist at investment fund VinaCapital, has said in a report.

Investment management firm VinaCapital said it expects Vietnam’s economy and stock market to “normalise” this year after the COVID-19 pandemic.

VinaCapital Ventures, a technology-focused venture capital fund of the Ho Chi Minh City-based VinaCaptial Group, has announced an investment of US$1 million into Koina, an agritech startup founded in Vietnam.

Last week, the State Bank of Vietnam decided to put Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) under special control and revamped the bank’s management to help the bank stabilize its operation, but analysts said the recent problem at SCB does not have any potential consequences on the banking system.