Three Bulgarian Funds Have Invested More Than 50% of Assets In Foreign Stock

Three Bulgarian funds have invested more than 50% of their assets in foreign stock, according to September 30 data. These are Status Finance, Advance Eastern Europe, and Status New Shares.

The exact figures are 84.43% for Status Finance, 78.59% for Advance Eastern Europe, and 57.57 % for Status New Shares. Status Finance has invested primarily in Serbian (27.93%), and Croatian stocks (25.93%).

The fund also holds investments in Turkey, Belgium, Greece, Romania, Austria, and Hungary. At the end of September, Status Finance's assets stood at 3,282,720 leva (1.678 mln euros).

78.59% of assets of Advance Eastern Europe is in foreign stock. Russian companies prevail in the portfolio with 37.45%, followed by those from Serbia – 19.61%.

The fund also invested in Croatian (8.16%), Romanian (7.03%), and Ukrainian stocks (6.34%). Total assets of Advance Eastern Europe amount to 28,768,477 leva (14.709 mln euros).

Foreign stocks take up 54.55% of the portfolio of Status New Shares. Of these, 25.64% are Croatian issues, 16.78% Serbian, and 12.04% Romanian. Last month total assets of the fund stood at 20,513,332 leva (10.488 mln euros).

Besides these three schems, there are another 13 mutual funds which are also very active in investing abroad. These are Standard Investment International Fund (41.02%). The fund's total assets amount to 4,036,899 leva (2.064 mln euros).

Others are Advance Invest (16.43%), KD Shares Bulgaria (16.09%), Sentinel-Principal (14.81%), and BenchMark Fund-2 AD (10%).

№Fund% of Assets1Status Finance84,43%2Advance Eastern Europe78,59%3Status New Shares54,55%4Standard Investment International Fund41,02%5Advance Invest16,43%6KD Shares Bulgaria16,09%7Sentinel Principal14,81%8BenchMark Fund – 210,00%9Standard Investment High-Yield Fund7,41%10BenchMark Fund-37,00%11TBI Dynamic5,98%12Raiffeissen Balanced Fund5,37%13KD Pelican4,47%14Raiffeissen Bulgaria Shares Fund2,96%15TBI Harmony2,66%16Europe2,66%17TBI Comfort0,99%18Elana High-Yield Fund0,98%19Elana Balanced $ Fund0,62%20Elana Balanced EuroFund0,61%

At the end of September