Phạm Lưu Hưng, Director of Analysis at SSI Research, says MSCI values real implementation over new policies, so Vietnam should remove bottlenecks rather than wait for funds leaving Indonesia. Progress has emerged on free-float and foreign ownership, while the central counterparty (CCP) mechanism could be rolled out in Q1/2027 or by Q2/2027 at the latest. In the base case, Vietnam could be placed under review in 2028 and formally upgraded in 2029, and an earlier CCP launch could bring the timeline forward by a year. He estimates that total assets under management of MSCI-tracking funds could exceed USD 2,000 billion at the time of upgrade, and that a 0.5% weight would imply potential inflows of about USD 10 billion, possibly staged in tranches running until around 2030 in the base case.
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Original headline: Giám đốc Phân tích SSI dự báo kịch bản 10 tỷ USD chảy vào chứng khoán Việt nam
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