09.26.2024

The net assets of the 95 open-end equity funds operating in Romania edged 1% higher in August 2024 and grew by 25.6% so far in 2024, up to RON25.6 billion (EUR5.2 billion), in line with the latest more

08.08.2024

The assets of open-end equity funds in Romania, which have three times fewer investors than bond and fixed income funds, increased by RON1.7 billion in the first six months of 2023, compared to RON1.2 more

08.08.2023

Between June 2022 and June 2023, the ten best performing local open-end equity funds delivered to investors yields of 9.3% to 15.4%. more

06.30.2023

The ten best performing local open-end equity funds between May 2022 and May 2023 delivered to investors yields of 3.5% to 6.8%, below the inflation rate and below the yields of bond and fixed income more

06.30.2022

Investment fund BlackPeak Capital on Thursday announced that it completed the final financing round of Southeast Europe Growth Equity Fund in the amount of EUR126 million, overshooting the initial more

03.03.2017

Equity fund Frontier Markets Equity and the funds owned by Franklin Templeton, manger of Romanian investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), sold 8,304,181 OMV Petrom shares, according to a more

02.20.2015

Regina Maria, a major player on Romania’s private healthcare market, is likely to change its owner this year in a deal likely to head toward nine figures in euros. more

02.02.2015

Private equity funds operating in Romania mull clinching at least one acquisition in 2015 and are eyeing fields such as retail, healthcare, banking or IT and some of them are even considering exits. 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

12.06.2012

Romanian mandatory private pension fund (Pillar II) administrators will be forbidden to invest in private equity real estate or in securitized financial instruments starting January 1, 2013, according more

11.01.2012

Romania’s private pension system administrator CSSPP wants to forbid mandatory private pension fund administrators to invest in private equity funds, and the measure will impede investments in the more

09.04.2012

Equity funds are still impacted by the economic crisis caused by the Lehman Brothers collapse in September 2008, which brought them losses yet to be recouped and drove hundreds of investors away. more

08.29.2012

Romanians set 5.3 billion (EUR1.2 billion) aside for investments in mutual funds. The richest of them chose euro-denominated mutual funds, while those with less money were more willing to take a more

07.04.2012

Attracting funding is currently the main problem for private equity funds in the region because investors in the US and in Western Europe are no longer interested in South Eastern Europe. more

05.15.2012

Romania fell one notch to fourth place in a ranking of the most attractive destinations for private equity funds in Central and Eastern Europe, after private equity firms halved their investments in more

03.12.2012

Investments in mutual funds rose to 170 million lei (about EUR39 million) in February, which shows a rebound of the market after the decline in the last quarter of 2011. more

01.23.2012

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

07.07.2011

The five largest equity funds have lost 300 investors since the beginning of the year and recorded net withdrawals of around 15 million lei (EUR 3.59 million), although the overall trend of the stock more