At the end of August the assets of funds and investment groups in Bulgaria stood at 724.796 mln leva (370.583 mln euros), shows data by BSE and profit.bg.

Only a month earlier assets stood at 630.86 mln leva (322.553 mln euros), which means a 15% increase was marked in one month.

The fastest increase was registered by Standard Investment International Fund and Ug Market Maximum, followed by CCB Leader and Alfa Index Top 20 (which offers on-line stake transfers).

Capman Max also makes it into the top 5. Its assets grew 36% in August and topped 47 mln leva. Next rank United Bulgarian Bank Premium Shares and CCB Active with a 25% increase each.

Advance Invest, TBI Comfort and Standard Investment Balanced Fund also make it into the top 10, while the secon fund in the Capman group – Capman Capital remained at the 11th spot.

The assets of 22 funds increased by more than 10% in the past month. Only one of them – Status Finance did not register any increase, which is probably due to buying back of stakes.

Advance Invest, DSK Rastej and Raiffeisen Bank Bulgaria Balanced Fund are the leaders in terms of assets size, followed by Capman Max and Raiffeisen Bulgaria Shares Fund.

№Name31 July'07/ BGN31 August'07/ BGNDifference1Standard Investment International Fund2036818,273616026,0377.53%2Ug Market Maximum3793067,366203241,8163.54%3CCB Leader6805844,9810682995,556.97%4Alfa Index Top 201830232286088556.31%5Capman Max34903803,6147620053,636.43%6UBB Premium Shares17489265,1322593084,829.18%7CCB Active5409752,766826700,826.19%8Advance Invest 56412998,166685088518.50%9TBI Comfort 8376710,249916068,3618.38%10Standard Investment Balanced Fund7040886,828304288,217.94%

Source: Bulgarian Stock Exchange