SM Investments bags best strategic CSR award

MANILA, Philippines - SM Investments Corp. (SMIC) was a big winner at the 3rd Annual Southeast Asia Institutional Investor Corporate Awards organized by the Alpha Southeast Asia, a Hong Kong-based business publication focusing on international finance in the Asean region.

With SM Foundation as its socio civic arm, SMIC bagged two awards, including the Best Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility and Strongest Adherence to Corporate Governance during a ceremony held recently at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Makati City.

In addition, SMIC, together with its banking arm, BDO Unibank Inc., won the Most Organized Investor Relations and Best Senior Management Support category. SM’s chief finance officer, Jose T. Sio, was also awarded the Best Chief Finance Office in the Philippines.

Through its foundation, SM has continuously extended help to the less fortunate in the communities it serves, especially focusing on four advocacies: education through college scholarship programs, donation of school buildings; health through medical missions, donation of community health and wellness centers, breastfeeding program, children, youth and PWD activities; livelihood through farmers trainings, entrepreneurship, microfinance seminars, casual employment for senior citizens; and, environment through treeplanting, waste management, disaster preparedness (Tulong Express), resettlement housing projects for calamity victims, among others.

The 3rd Annual Southeast Asia Institutional Investor Corporate Awards polled more than 473 investors and analysts across the region as well as in the US and Europe.

The participants included fund managers with investment interests in Southeast Asia, large institutional investors, insurance companies, pension funds, hedge funds, private banks, equity and fixed income brokers, as well as buy and sell side analysts.