10.31.2014

Romanian wines are stirring rising interest on foreign markets as well on the significant quality increase based on European Fund injection, says Aurelia Visinescu, one of Romania’s few woman more

10.29.2014

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta asked the ministers to spend the funds available for public investments by the end of the year, adding that the development requires money spent, not budget more

10.29.2014

Mutual funds in Romania that combined bond and stock investments generated the highest returns in the past five years, of as high as 69%. However, a single fund managed to beat the bourse and just one more

10.22.2014

Romania will end the current 2007-2013 multiannual financial framework in 2015 with an absorption rate of European Union funds of at least 80%, which translates into EUR19.2 billion, EU Fund Minister more

10.21.2014

Romania could double its annual wine production if it had funding to replace hybrid vines with noble ones in the context in which it currently ranks fifth in the world by cultivated areas, but more

10.02.2014

Non-bank financial institutions (NBFI) will start selling loans next year to farmers looking to get EU funds for their investments under a new EU agriculture funding program. The EU funds available in more

09.17.2014

Local mutual funds attracted record high net inflows of RON3 billion in the first eight months of this year, a sign Romanians are ever more concerned about falling banking interest rates and finding more

09.12.2014

Erste Bond Flexible and Raiffeisen RonPlus, Romania’s biggest mutual funds, with overall assets of 8.5 billion lei (EUR1.9 billion), have RON3.8 billion (EUR860 million) invested in government more

09.04.2014

Private equity funds’ interest in transactions on the Romanian market and the number of these operations grew in the first eight months of 2014, but the funds’ investment strategy has remained the more

08.27.2014

Banks in Romania gain 260 million lei (EUR60 million) a year from safekeeping and evaluating assets of investment funds, and such services have become ever more lucrative in recent years, according to more

08.01.2014

The quarterly budget for medical drugs should be supplemented by RON175 million starting with the last three months of 2014, to meet the real needs of patients’ treatment, according to Romanian more

07.29.2014

Romania’s minister delegate for Budget Liviu Voinea said the expenses budgeted for the programs financed from European Union funds reached less than half the target set for the first half of 2014, more

07.29.2014

The Ministries of Health, Defense, Economy, Education, Transport, Labor, Culture And Interior will get extra money at the upcoming budget revision, while funds will be cut from the Finance and more

07.22.2014

Romania's financial watchdog ASF plans to amend the investment policy for pension funds to allow then to make higher direct investments in the economy, the institution said in a statement Tuesday. more

07.22.2014

The managers of investment funds East Capital and BlackRock, which are among the biggest foreign investors in Romanian stocks, expect the Bucharest market to be among the those that will stand to gain more

06.06.2014

Investments of private equity funds in Romania grew in 2013 for the first time in the last four years, seeing a 2.5-fold increase from 2012, to over EUR70 million, according to the European Private more

05.29.2014

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta said Thursday that the Government is close to drafting a new Partnership Agreement with the European Union for 2014-2020 and the EU funding programs for this more

05.29.2014

The decline of bank interest rates below 4% a year has hindered the appeal of deposits as a savings tool and bank clients are seeking more profitable alternatives. more

05.26.2014

The Bucharest Stock Exchange's chronic lack of liquidity may cause problems to private pension fund managers which, under the law, are required to invest some of the assets in stock trading on the more

05.22.2014

Romania’s five largest money managers ended 2013 with net cumulated profits above RON34 million, mainly generated from the management of low-risk mutual funds. more

05.21.2014

The assets of Romania’s mandatory private pension funds (Pillar II) rose by nearly RON3 billion in the last 6 years, reaching RON15.46 billion (EUR3.47 billion), the Pension Fund Association (APAPR) more

05.19.2014

Private mandatory pension funds (pillar II) held investments of 2.3 billion lei in stock of companies listed on the bourse at the end of March, double the volume posted in the same period of last more

05.13.2014

Erste Asset Management, the biggest mutual fund manager in Romania, wants to raise EUR100 million with six new funds destined to investors seeking alternatives to the falling interest rates of banking more

04.25.2014

The number of small and medium-sized businesses in Romania is three times lower than the EU average and EUR3 billion has been allotted to support SMEs in 2014-2020, Romania's EU Fund Minister Eugen more

04.24.2014

Globalworth Real Estate Investments, founded and owned by Greek businessman Ioannis Papalekas, one of the most active realty investors in Romania, raised EUR144 million on the London Stock Exchange, more