Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Fortis's Eli Koen Sees Turkish Housing Boom; Buys Banks, Developers

(Bloomberg) -- Fortis Investments' Eli Koen, who
oversees the world's largest stock fund focusing on Turkey, is
buying banks as record economic growth and easier lending rules
help fuel a home-mortgage boom.

The manager of Fortis's 240 million-euro ($331 million)
Equity Turkey Fund moved 10 percent of the fund in the past year
into home loans and savings providers such as Akbank TAS. He put
another 5 percent into real estate and pulled assets from food
manufacturers like Ulker Gida Sanayi & Ticaret AS on the view
that people don't eat much more during good times.


Read more at Bloomberg Stocks News

No comments: