AsemconnectVietnam - Saigon - Hanoi Securities Corporation (Stock Code: SHS) and Rong Viet Securities JSC (VDSC - stock code VDS)won awards "Best Places to Work in Asia 2024".

On August 8, 2024, within the framework of the Best Companies to Work for in Asia Awards Ceremony held in Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon - Hanoi Securities Corporation (Stock Code: SHS) won double awards "Best Place to Work in Asia 2024" and "Enterprise that Cares about Employee Treatment". The double honor is an affirmation of SHS's efforts to make people one of the key factors for its development strategy.
Human-centered development strategy
HR Asia Awards - Best Place to Work in Asia is the most prestigious international award, which has been receiving the trust of many businesses in the field of human resource development. The award is held annually by HR Asia Magazine in 16 countries and markets in the Asian region such as Singapore, Korea, China, Hong Kong (China), Taiwan (China), Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam... HR Asia Magazine recognizes the achievements of businesses in creating ideal working environments based on international standards.
To select the most deserving names from thousands of participating businesses, HR Asia and the team of experts considered many criteria such as: The level of employee engagement with the workplace; Recruitment, training, development and retention policies; Initiatives to connect the team.
As one of the prestigious securities companies with the leading capital scale in the market and nearly 17 years of operation, SHS always strives to create an ideal working environment, bringing satisfaction, comprehensive happiness, and providing development opportunities. 2024 is the first time SHS has attended the HR Asia Awards and has been honored to receive the dual awards "Best Companies to Work For in Asia 2024" and "The Most Caring Company". Mr. Nguyen Chi Thanh - General Director of SHS shared at the Award Ceremony: “Since its establishment, SHS has always considered human resources as one of the company's greatest assets. For SHS, one of the leading securities service providers in the market, human resources are the core intelligence, the source of creating superior and pioneering service packages to serve customers in the most professional and methodical way. SHS focuses on building a dynamic, modern, and convenient working environment, promoting the creativity of its staff. In addition, SHS employees and their relatives always enjoy good treatment, salaries commensurate with individual abilities, health care policies and life insurance according to international standards."
"Transformation from the heart - Building a foundation for customer prosperity"
In recent years, SHS has achieved remarkable business results and these achievements are thanks to the dedicated efforts of nearly 300 employees of the Company. In 2023, SHS recorded VND1,460 billion in revenue and VND684.2 billion in profit before tax. In the first 6 months of 2024, SHS recorded VND1,164 billion in revenue, pre-tax profit reached VND879 billion, reaching nearly 85% of the profit target. In terms of average profit per employee, SHS is currently the leading enterprise in the securities industry in terms of efficiency.
On the transformation journey with the ambitious goal of becoming an Investment Finance Group by 2030, the SHS Board of Directors affirms the strategy of focusing on people, developing, attracting and retaining a team of experienced, highly qualified human resources as well as welcoming a generation of young, dynamic, creative and enthusiastic employees to work with SHS.
Accordingly, SHS promotes the spirit of Dedication - Integrity - Professionalism and Flexibility, building a culture of willingness to make efforts, working hard, creating prosperity for customers, fostering the sustainable development of the company, contributing to the development of the country.
The entire Board of Directors, Executive Board and employees of SHS are aiming for a common goal, building and nurturing SHS to become a leading Investment Finance Group with multi-functional securities services, providing domestic and international customers and partners with financial services and investment consulting products according to leading outstanding standards. To do that, SHS sets the goal and constantly strives to build a comprehensive happy working environment, supporting the maximum potential of employees, making the Company a source of pride for each individual SHS person.
At the HR Asia Awards Ceremony, Rong Viet Securities JSC (VDSC - stock code VDS) was honored as one of the "Best Places to Work in Asia 2024". With 3 consecutive years of winning awards, Rong Viet has become the most honored securities company at HR Asia - Asia's leading prestigious award for human resources strategy, culture and working environment.
3 consecutive years of winning the title of "Best Places to Work in Asia"
"Best Companies to Work for in Asia" is an annual award organized and evaluated by HR Asia Magazine. Surpassing 704 participating businesses and nominations, Rong Viet Securities JSC is one of 130 units honored this year. Notably, this is the 3rd consecutive year that Rong Viet has received this noble title and is the most honored securities company at the HR Asia Awards since the award was first held in Vietnam in 2018.
According to the Organizing Committee, the enterprises honored this year have “excellent and effective human resources policies and activities, demonstrating a strong commitment to developing a dynamic and diverse working environment”.
To achieve the “Best Place to Work in Asia” award, Rong Viet met the strict evaluation criteria from the HR Asia Organizing Committee, and achieved outstanding results in the survey of the overall engagement assessment model (TEAM) with the criteria Core (core values, organizational culture); Self (individual values) and Group (collective values).
Intrinsic strength from Culture - People - Technology
In the process of formation and development, Rong Viet has always been steadfast on the path of building solid foundation values, aiming for sustainable development. In which, the human foundation combined with the cultural foundation and technological factors have created the development of "quality" and "quantity" in the internal capacity of Rong Viet.
Therefore, over the past time, the Board of Directors of Rong Viet has always focused on recruitment, training, and capacity development of human resources in parallel with digital transformation and innovation activities to increase customer experience as well as business performance.
In addition, the Board of Directors of the company always strives to build a professional and humane working environment with competitive and attractive salary and welfare policies to attract and retain employees. The physical and mental health of employees is also of special concern, with the desire to bring workers peace of mind in work and life. At Rong Viet, all members are encouraged to develop themselves and become the best version of them. Rong Viet believes that this is also one of the important premises in the sustainable development strategy to create a prosperous and happy future for customers, shareholders - investors, employees and the community.
Focus on developing the young generation
With the theme of this year's award being "The Definitive Z Choice - Entering a new era with GenZ", HR Asia has made an important step in accompanying businesses to become the first choice for Gen Z talents - an enthusiastic, brave and creative workforce.
Grasping the trend and recognizing the potential of this workforce, Rong Viet has focused on recruitment, training and development activities for the Zoomers generation. At Rong Viet, 1/3 of the current workforce belongs to Gen Z, many of whom are also holding management positions and promising high promotion potential in the future.
Not only focusing on recruitment activities, Rong Viet is also a pioneer in the mission of training and raising investment awareness for the younger generation. Recently, the Company launched RongViet Invest 2024 - a knowledge and practical stock investment contest for students nationwide with a total value of gifts and prizes up to VND500 million. The contest was initiated in 2023 with the goal of contributing to building a new generation of investors with more knowledge, experience and courage, thereby joining hands to build a healthy and sustainable development of the Vietnamese stock market.
Taking people as the core value, Rong Viet believes that the younger generation will have the opportunity to develop themselves and demonstrate their abilities, striving to become a worthy successor of the previous generation, thereby not only contributing to the sustainable development of the Company but also contributing to the development of the Vietnamese stock market.
On September 11, VNDirect Securities will close the list of shareholders to pay dividends in 2023 at a rate of 5% in cash, equivalent to 1 share receiving an additional VND500 and expected payment on September 25.
With more than 1,522.2 million shares in circulation, it is estimated that VNDirect Securities will pay a total of about VND761.1 billion in this dividend payment.
Notably, previously, regarding the capital mobilization plan, in July 2024, VNDirect Securities offered 243,566,632 shares to existing shareholders, as well as offered shares that existing shareholders did not buy to other individuals at the price of VND10,000/share, raising VND2,435.7 billion.
Of the mobilized amount, VNDirect Securities plans to use 40% of the total mobilized amount, equivalent to about VND 974.28 billion, to supplement capital for securities margin trading lending activities; 20% of the total mobilized amount, about VND487.14 billion for investment activities in valuable papers on the market; VND487.14 billion to underwrite the issuance of warrants; and the remaining VND487.14 billion to supplement capital for the issuance and distribution of secured warrants.
It is known that since 2021, VNDirect Securities has offered shares to existing shareholders twice at a ratio of 1:1. In 2021, 214.5 million shares were offered at VND14,500/share, raising VND3,110.46 billion; in 2022, 434.94 million shares were offered at VND10,000/share, raising VND4,349.4 billion. Notably, before the 3 recent offerings, in 2020, the percentage of shareholders attending the General Meeting was up to 72% of the total number of voting shares. However, since the continuous offering of shares to the outside to increase capital, the rate of shareholders attending only slightly exceeded the minimum requirement when in 2021 it was 51.75%, in 2022 it was 53.91%, in 2023 it was 51.23% and especially, at the first 2024 General Meeting, the rate of shareholders attending was below 50% leading to the General Meeting not being able to be held and the 2nd General Meeting with the rate of shareholders attending was 41.91%, the General Meeting was successfully held.
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Source: VITIC/Tinnhanhchungkhoan