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Bankers are bringing money from abroad. Are they getting ready to resume lending?
Foreign bankers have pumped additional funds for Romanian subsidiaries, with the amount of non-residents' medium and long-term deposits (reflecting in fact funding raised by domestic banks from shareholders) hitting a new all-time peak in February, of 8.4bn eu...
Mandatory private pension funds gain 10% in H1
Mandatory private pension funds (pillar II) in the first half registered an average return of 9.9%, while the return of voluntary pension funds (pillar III) reached 6.6%, according to the As...
Bancpost says it moved 68m RON from local funds to two funds in Luxembourg
Bancpost says the 68 million RON withdrawn from the two mutual funds managed on the Romanian market were placed in two Luxembourg-based funds held by majority shareholder EFG Eurobank, which...
What will Romania do if funds from IMF and EU are delayed until next year?
The state needs at least 3.5 billion euros to cover the budget deficit from foreign funding in the last three months of the year, but because of the political crisis it might be forced to fi...
Private equity funds' views on financial crisis
The financial crisis is testing private equity funds' ability to maintain projected yields given that slower economic growth and rising financing costs will dent the profitability of the com...
Equity funds see heavy losses
Equity funds lost up to 60% of their investors' money this year, after they bet on banks and financial investment companies (SIFs), whose shares were dealt a heavy blow by the crisis in the...
Increase in voluntary pensions deduction not enough, companies say
The increase in the maximum deduction for contributions paid to voluntary pension funds (the 3rd pillar) is a big step ahead, but there is still a lot of room for growth, according to manage...
When will the first results of European infrastructure funds start to show?
The infrastructure projects funded by the European Union will not yield any noticeable results over the next two years, but if there is political interest, the absorption of European funds,...
Clients of private pension funds earn less than the average salary in economy
Clients of mandatory pension funds, i.e. all employees aged below 35 and some of those aged between 35 and 45, earn, on average, less than the average salary in the economy, according to dat...