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SIF investors are increasingly emphatic about wanting their money

Autor: Roxana Daniela Pricop, Andrei Chirileasa

29.03.2011, 23:50 18

Investment funds, which hold shares in the five SIFs (FinancialInvestment Companies) have become increasingly persistent indefending their rights, pressuring management of the SIFs to raisedividends, after waiting for years for stake caps to be raised. Atstake are tens of millions of euros.

Recently, the management teams of the five SIFs have receiveda surprise request from the biggest institutional shareholders: toraise dividends distributed from the profit made in 2010 by up toover 70%, with two SIFs, SIF Banat-Crişana (SIF1) and SIF Muntenia(SIF4) introducing the proposals on the agenda, while SIFTransilvania (SIF3) refused to do so, citing non-compliance withlegal conditions.

Among the supporters of the proposal are Swedish investmentsfunds East Capital, equity fund ING Romanian Equity and localinvestment fund STK Emergent, all of which hold significant stakesin the five SIFs. The proposal is also backed by other powerfullocal investors, such as BT Asset Management and Dumitru Tudor. So,although managers of foreign or local funds are voicing theirinterest to increase stakes and speaking of their long-termpotential, they are no longer willing to let the money that isrightfully theirs to be used by SIF managers in a discretionarymanner.

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