2011 starts in full speed for funds present on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. Their rise comes after two years - 2007 and 2008 - in which the Bucharest Stock Exchange became almost synonymous with loss, and investors only wanted a safe place to keep their money, in a bank deposit or a monetary fund. read more...

SIF Transilvania financial investment company has a 61 million-lei (14.5 million-euro) investment budget it wants to target mainly at stock exchange listed oil and energy companies. read more...

Raiffeisen Centrobank, the investment bank of the Austrian financial group of the same name, listed eight FP equity-backed structured products on Vienna, Frankfurt and Stuttgart bourses shortly after the Fund's floatation in Bucharest. Brokers say FP is thus gaining visibility and reaching investors who have not eyed the Romanian capital market, yet. read more...

SIF Transilvania (SIF3) board of directors proposes the company's shareholders the awarding of a gross dividend of 0.03 lei/share from net income generated in 2010, with the dividend being flat from 2009 and 2008. read more...

BCR Monetar, the biggest investment fund in Romania, with over 1.5 billion lei in assets, has become over its three years in business the "piggy bank" of peasants, after they sell their harvest, of monasteries, which raise money for their wintertime wood, as well as a cash management instrument for small entrepreneurs. read more...

The world's largest money manager, BlackRock, with assets under management worth 3,500bn dollars (2,500bn euros), invested 5m euros on the Romanian stock market through an investment fund dedicated to frontier markets, being attracted by Fondul Proprietatea (Property Fund - FP). read more...

The record deals through which the EBRD sold 5% of BRD stock on the Bourse for 107m euros brought KBC Securities brokers an over 50% market share in February, a record for the Romanian capital market. read more...

The listing of BCR, the biggest bank in Romania, has inflamed the five SIFs (financial investment companies), which hold 30.12% of the shares, on the one side, and majority shareholder Erste Bank, with 69.4% of the capital, on the other. Originally scheduled for October 2009, the listing was put off until October 2011. read more...

Romanian individuals should entirely receive the shares they will subscribe in the future stock sale offering the state will carry out at Petrom, while for the other categories of investors shares should be allotted in line with the subscribed sum (pro-rata), maintains the Association of Capital Market Investors (AIPC). read more...

The deal by which the state wants to sell a 9.84% stake in Petrom (SNP), the biggest Romanian company, will be the biggest one sealed so far on the Bucharest Stock Exchange. read more...

American funds Artio Global, the biggest foreign investors on the Stock Exchange, with a portfolio of over 100 million euros at the end of October 2010, bought a large share of the 5% stake in BRD sold by the EBRD for 107 million euros, in the biggest transaction in the history of the Stock Exchange. read more...

The state answered again the desperate need for companies of the Bucharest Stock Exchange with promises, reassuring it would use the capital market for "trial privatisations" of the minority stakes it owns in the energy sector companies. read more...

The torpor that the Bucharest Stock Exchange had gone into after the first few days of trading of Fondul Proprietatea shares was shaken yesterday at 4:02 PM when the trading screens displayed eight BRD share transactions, which involved 34 millions of shares worth 107 million euros. read more...

The ten biggest non-financial companies on the Stock Exchange last year reported turnover increases against 2009, with the leaders being companies in the industrial, energy and pharmaceutical sector. read more...

SIF Transilvania ended the year 2010 with a net profit of 66.9 million lei, cu 43% below the profit made in 2009, of 11.6 million lei, as the company"s revenues dropped 28% during the reviewed period, from 170.3 million lei to 121.5 million lei. read more...

Economy Ministry representatives are working on a project meant to help the SMEs that want to expand more quickly and raise funding from the Bourse. According to the project, the state would bear part of costs related to listing process. read more...

KD Maximus, the second biggest equity fund on the market in terms of assets, holds investments worth 2m euros in Gazprom, Rosneft and Lukoil and in the biggest bank of Russia, being the first Romanian fund to bet on the potential of the Russian energy field. read more...

Total Bourse wealth, including listed stock, bonds and the other securities registered with the Central Depository, in 2010 climbed from 73.8bn RON (17.3bn euros) to 80.28bn RON (18.8bn euros), in line with data the Central Depository published yesterday. read more...

Valentin Ionescu, Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE) general manager, has publicly doubted Romgaz, the biggest domestic gas producer, could be floated this year, as preparations for the launch of a stock offering have not started, yet. read more...

The listing of Fondul Proprietatea (Property Fund-FP) on a foreign market is causing the first cracks in the relationship between the management of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BSE), which does not want a new listing, and American group Franklin Templeton, which plans to bring the Fund to London, Warsaw or Vienna, giving assurances the Romanian market would not lose liquidity as a result. read more...