Institutional investors

The number of investors in Türkiye's stock market reached 8.23 million as of the end of March, up from 4.35 million a year ago, quarterly data from the Central Registry Agency (MKK) have shown.

In the first quarter of this year, eight companies went public, with the size of public offerings amounting to 14.7 billion Turkish Liras.

The assets of the four Mutual Fund Management Companies (AEDAK) that are subsidiaries of the Greek systemic banks increased by 1.8 billion euros in the first quarter of 2024.

This is indicative of the potential of the market and the rise shown by both foreign and domestic bond and equity mutual funds.

Ljubljana – The government adopted on Friday a draft bill on the forms of alternative investment funds that envisages three forms and two types of funds. The long-awaited bill, with which the state wants to strengthen the capital market, is one of the milestones for the payment of the first instalment from the Covid recovery mechanism.

A bourse filing by Eurobank late on Wednesday may well mark the end of a five-year period during which foreign investors' attitude toward Greece was one of uncertainty and major foreign institutional portfolios abstained from Greek transactions.

ZAD BULSTRAD VIENNA INSURANCE GROUP has been awarded the highest recognition on the insurance market in Bulgaria, during the 10th anniversary edition of the prestigious competition organized by the VUZF University of Finance, Business and Entrepreneurship, the Association of Bulgarian Insurers, the Bulgarian Association of Supplementary Pension Security Companies, Prof. Dr.

The number of hedge funds focused on trading cryptocurrencies more than doubled in the four months to Feb. 15, despite sharp falls in the value of the virtual coins in recent weeks, data from fintech research house Autonomous NEXT showed on Feb. 15.

After five years of decline, the cost of motor insurance is set to record a moderate increase in 2018, according to market estimates.

Mareva Grabowski Mitsotaki, the spouse of conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has issued a statement after her name appeared in a list of 130 Greeks on the so-called Paradise Papers. 

In the list, Mitsotaki appears to be the manager of a mutual fund based in the Cayman Islands. 

Some companies have been avoiding issuing policies for high risk groups of vehicles after a ceiling price was imposed on compulsory traffic insurance, Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Şimşek has stated, adding that a "Risky Insurance Pool" will be created to distribute premiums and damages to all companies for a resolution of the problem.

The number of health insurance policyholders went down by 10 percent, or 93,869 people in the last three years, which is attributed to the financial crisis and the inability of households to shoulder the cost of a private program.