06.11.2015

The Romanian entrepreneurial class has learned its lesson from the crisis, and businesspeople have become wiser than they were in 2007-2008, so they are now approaching development or internal more

06.10.2015

Erste Asset Management, the biggest mutual fund manager, targets assets of around EUR120 million this year in equity assets, from EUR40 million at the end of May, company general manager Dragos Neacsu more

03.25.2015

China-CEE Investment Cooperation, whose main shareholder is China's Exim Bank of China and which has a $500 million budget to invest in Central and Eastern Europe, is entering the Romanian market 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

11.06.2014

Private equity fund investment manager Axxess Capital will continue acquisitions in 2015 and plans to close two or three deals. 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

04.08.2014

South-African property investment fund New Europe Property Investments (NEP.RO) Tuesday raised around EUR80 million through a book build process which was substantially oversubscribed, and the money more

03.03.2014

World Class Romania, which operates 11 fitness centers in Bucharest, Timisoara and Cluj Napoca, will enter the portfolio of Polish fund Resource Partners, specialized in private equity investments in more

01.20.2014

Mergers & acquisition consultants are upbeat about a rebound of the Romanian M&A market, and the most dynamic sector will be financial services, which has stood out starting as early as 2013. more

01.12.2014

Nextebank will focus on niche services--namely on very small and small companies, as well as on individuals, with lending not including long-term products in the latter case--according to Horia Manda, more

01.08.2014

The year 2014 will be quite busy for the private equity firms that have been in Romania for a number of years, while others might exit after using up their allocations for the area, the managers more

11.25.2013

Keep away from government bonds because countries’ debt levels are increasingly unsustainable and allocate as much as your portfolio as possible to European and US shares with high dividend yields, more

09.09.2013

South-African real estate investment fund NEPI (NEP.RO), the most active realty investor in Romania over the past four years, Monday announced an equity raising of nearly EUR35 million in order to more

07.29.2013

Investments of private equity funds in Romania amounted to only EUR27 million in 2012, a record low over the past six years, while exits rose to EUR120 million, according to the European Private more

07.17.2013

Romania’s real estate market can still provide investment opportunities but only for investors who do not need bank loans, because the “cost of funding is prohibitive” says Dutch executive Gijs more

04.11.2013

Private equity investors estimate the number of transactions on the merger & acquisition market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), including Romania, will increase slightly this year, according to 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

11.27.2012

Romanian banks have drawn the attention of London-based private equity fund AnaCap, which specializes in buying orphaned subsidiaries. The fund is ready to come up with “substantial capital” in 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

08.07.2012

The private equity company created by Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate to the U.S. presidential elections in November, has bought a 30% stake in outsourcer Genpact, which has over 1,500 employees 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