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.

Launched in the autumn of 2007, only a few months ahead of the start of the financial crisis, BCR Monetar grew in a year's time more than other funds could in ten years' time.

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