Senior Editor
Roxana Pricop
- Fields
- Capital Market, Banks-Insurance, Companies
- Writing for ZF since
- 2011
- Articles
- 53
Erste: Romania Is More Resilient To Crisis Shockwave Than In 2008
Romania has become more resilient to a shock coming from the euro zone than in 2008, when the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the onset of the crisis threw the local economy into recession.
Former DIICOT Prosecutor Appointed To Run Property Restitution Authority
Dorina Danielescu, a former chief-prosecutor with DIICOT (Directorate for the Investigation of Organized Crime and Terrorism), is the new president of the National Property Restitution Autho...
Pension Funds Witness First Losses Since Establishment In 2008
The privately managed mandatory pension funds (pillar II) experienced for the first time the anxiety of extensive stock market corrections, watching declines of over 20% in Bucharest, Warsaw...
The Luckiest Fund: It Exited Shares At Proper Time And Yielded 12%
Betting on stock in the first three months of the year, when the Bucharest bourse climbed 15%, and a shift to bonds starting April, close to the debt crisis onset, was the strategy that brou...
Bucharest Bourse Introduces Physically Delivered Gold Futures
Investors will be able to bet on gold prices and take home the metal starting October, when the first physically delivered gold futures contracts begin trading.
Franklin Templeton’s Achievements After One Year At Proprietatea Fund
After the first year as manager of investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), Franklin Templeton can drink only half the champagne glass: the fund is listed, but the share price is below e...
Audas Piscator, A Mutual Fund With 14% Yield In One Month
Diversified fund Audas Piscator, one of the smallest on the market, is the top performer among mutual funds with a 14% return in euros over the past month. The strategy behind the solid perf...
Amid European Mayhem, Bucharest Bourse GM Pins Hopes On Transelectrica Offer
Valentin Ionescu, the general manager of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), the main bourse operator on the Romanian capital market, is still hoping the government will put 15% in Transelec...
SIF Shareholders: We Are Disappointed By Erste’s Offer
The shareholders of the five regional investment funds (SIF) say they are disappointed with the price offered by Austrian group Erste to take over 24.12% in BCR. They have yet to decide how...
Finance Ministry Set To Exit Fondul Proprietatea In October
The last 827 million shares the Romanian Government still holds in investment fund Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO) will be used up for compensations to former owners in two months at most.
Last Attempt By SIFs To Strike Deal With Erste On BCR Shares
The five regional investment funds (SIFs) are increasingly pressured by the approaching deadline to decide on the fate of the 30.1% stake in Romania’s largest bank, BCR. The SIFs met with Er...
Ausnit: Government Needs To Expand Fondul Proprietatea’s Share Capital
Steven Ausnit, the son of interwar period industrialist Max Ausnit and a major private investor in Fondul Proprietatea (FP.RO), asked the government to add new assets to the fund’s share cap...