25 mar 2013

Four of Romania’s five regional investment funds SIFs will continue to sell assets in their portfolios this year in order to obtain high profit, according to their draft budgets for 2013. more

22 ian 2013

Mihail Ion, chairman of management company Raiffeisen Asset Management, which manages assets of 3.6 billion lei (EUR830 million), expects interest rates on government securities to continue their more

22 ian 2013

The inclusion of leu-denominated government bonds in an index of US bank JP Morgan led to significant inflows of foreign capital which fueled an “unexpected” decline of interest rates on more

1 nov 2012

The secondary listing of investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) in Warsaw will not reduce the discount at which Proprietatea shares are traded, believes Adrian Tanase, the manager of ING Equity, more

23 ian 2012

Share investment funds generated yields of up to 8.3% at the beginning of this year, helped by the increases registered by the stock market, after having been the laggards of the fund market in 2011, more

8 dec 2011

The progress of Banca Comerciala Carpatica (BCC.RO), controlled by Sibiu-based businessman Ilie Carabulea, will depend over the next year on how much the lender will consolidate by attracting a more

7 dec 2011

The largest mutual funds on the Romanian market, with assets of over one billion lei, also called superfunds, have not made much progress this year, recording modest asset evolutions after record more

6 dec 2011

Three of the investment funds managed by Mark Mobius own Romanian government securities worth $178 million. The funds’ net assets stand at about $10 billion together. more

24 nov 2011

Mandatory private pension funds have narrowly escaped the severe corrections recorded on the stock exchanges under the impact of the sovereign debt crisis and posted yields of up to 5.7% over the past more

21 oct 2011

Mandatory private pension funds have sheltered from the sovereign debt crisis by investing preponderantly in government bonds, seeking to offset the significant losses recorded by shares, as well as more

14 oct 2011

The three Romanian banks listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange were hit hard by the euro zone sovereign debt crisis, losing over 2 billion lei (EUR460 million) of their market value in the last two more

12 oct 2011

The sovereign debt crisis chased mutual funds away from stock exchanges, with their exposure to equity declining to an all-time low of 3% of their total assets, worth 7 billion lei (EUR1.6 billion) at more

10 oct 2011

An investment fund controlled by American hedge fund Elliott Associates, has recently been reported as the largest institutional shareholder of investment fund Fondul Proprietatea, with 6.61% of the more

18 iul 2011

SIF Transilvania (SIF3.RO) ended the first half of this year with a profit of almost 90 million lei (EUR21 million), four times higher than in the same period a year ago, while the profits of SIF more