Global Finance boss: Magnitude of Wall Street events has not yet reached Romania
Publish date: 03-03-2009Stelian Dragan, the new chief investment officer of private equity firm Global Finance, says that his strategy does not only target companies in sectors less affected by the crisis and that yields of investment funds will be "quite good" in the coming years, too.
"There are opportunities because multiples have gone down, because there is a business plan and money to help this business plan. The market is set to rebound in four to six years, which is why one may say that the yield will be quite good," Dragan said.
Greek investment fund Global Finance entered Romania in 1996, one of the key markets in the region. That year the company managed a number of local investments, including ice-cream producer Delta, furniture maker Neoset and dye maker Romcolor. Global Finance's local businesses over the years have included mobile telephony operator Orange, pharmaceuticals producer Sicomed, supermarket chain La Fourmi and MobilRom.
Dragan, 37, has recently taken over the management of Global Finance's local office, after having worked at investment bank Bear Stearns & Co, and at Deutsche Bank Securities (the investment banking division of Germany-based Deutsche Bank).
He replaces Stefan Bucataru, one of the people with the longest involvement in the local private equity industry, who, according to Global Finance, left the company at the end of last year. The attractiveness of the local companies, Dragan feels, has increased as the evaluation multiples started to go down.
Ziarul Financiar
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