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Fondul Proprietatea title will be traded at a discount of 15%, compared with the current 33%, at the end of September 2015 and this target is assumed by mandate without a suspensive condition to the management mandate of the Fund, says Greg Konieczny, manager of the Fund and Executive Vice President, Templeton Emerging Markets Group.

“The target depends on LSE listing. There are 100 billion USD ready to be invested in closed-end funds in London, which cannot target open-end funds. There is a wish to buy securities in closed-end funds with a discount and if we come with a discount of 25-30%, it will be very attractive to investors,” says Konieczny.

The average discount at the London Stock Exchange for similar funds is of 10%, but one of the Templeton funds is traded at a discount to face value of 7-9%.

“Of course , we cannot make predictions,” said Konieczny.

Fund will be listed on the London Stock Exchange as early as this fall. The target-discount was adopted last week by the general shareholders meeting of FP.

Autor: Bogdan Tudorache

Active in the economic and business press for the past 26 years, Bogdan graduated Law and then attended intensive courses in Economics and Business English. He went up to the position of editor-in-chief since 2006 and has provided management and editorial policy for numerous economic publications dedicated especially to the community of foreign investors in Romania. From 2003 to 2013 he was active mainly in the financial-banking sector. He started freelancing for Energynomics in 2013, notable for his advanced knowledge of markets, business communities and a mature editorial style, both in Romanian and English.