* Radu Hanga, BT Asset Management: "It is in the common interest of all the shareholders of the SIFs to have a common strategy concerning BCR"
The list of shareholders who on Tuesday, requested that the SIFs hold General Shareholder Meetings in order to discuss the launch of the listing of BCR on the Stock Exchange, includes investors who are active on the domestic capital market, such as funds managed by Aviva, ING, Certinvest, BT Asset Management, Raiffeisen Asset Management, STK Financial and SAI Carpatica, together with "Firebird", "Broadhurst" and brokerage firm "Broker" Cluj.
SIF "Moldova" and SIF "Muntenia" have revealed the names of the shareholders who have requested the summoning of the General Shareholder Meeting, whereas SIF "Transilvania" and SIF "Oltenia" only said that they have received the requests to summon the General Shareholder Meeting and that they are reviewing them. SIF "Moldova" also announced that an extraordinary session of the Board of Directors was summoned today.
Fund managers contacted by BURSA have clarified that their request came as BCR is the most important asset in the portfolio of the SIFs, and they would like to have a say in what happens with it, especially since this autumn, the two year period by which the listing of the bank on the BSE was postponed will expire.
"There is no concrete information about the plans of the SIFs concerning their most important interest, but there are however statements that suggest that the SIFs have diverging interests concerning their stake in BCR", said Radu Hanga, the general manager of BT Asset Management, who added: "Or, this is essential, because if some of the SIFs decided not to sell their stake in BCR could have a major impact on what the stakes that the other SIFs have in BCR would be worth.
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