May 22 (SeeNews) - The assets of resident investment funds in Bulgaria totalled 1.56 billion levs ($890.5 million/797.6 million euro) at the end of March, up 16% year-on-year, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said.
Compared to the end-December figure, the assets of resident investment funds were 4% higher, the central bank said in a press release on Tuesday.
Bond funds accounted for 40.1% of the total resident investment funds' assets, equity funds followed with 39.4%, while mixed funds and other funds contributed 20.4% and 0.1%, respectively.
Non-resident investment funds managed 2.59 billion levs worth of assets in Bulgaria at the end of March, 12% higher year-on-year.
Details follow (in million levs):
|
end-March 2019 |
end-March 2018 |
Investment funds - total |
4152.1 |
3659.9 |
Non-resident investment funds |
2590.8 |
2313.5 |
Resident investment funds |
1561.3 |
1346.4 |
- equity funds |
615.0 |
544.0 |
- bond funds |
625.6 |
520.9 |
- mixed funds |
319.0 |
279.5 |
- real estate and other funds |
1.8 |
2.0 |
source: BNB
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)