WOOD & Company advised Shoper S.A., the owner of Poland's most popular e-commerce platform for running online shops using the software-as-a-service ( SaaS) model, on its debut on the Main Market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange on 9 July. Last week, the company completed its IPO successfully – the value of the offering amounted to PLN 363m  (EUR 80m).

Read more here. 

WOOD & Company has announced the acquisition of Aupark Bratislava shopping centre in Slovakia from Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (“URW”). The completion of the transaction is expected during the first half of this year and is subject to standard conditions precedent, such as competition clearance.

Read more here. 

WOOD & Company, the leading investment bank in CEE, has acquired, for its real estate fund, BBC 1 and BBC 1 Plus, an office complex with 25,500 sqm of gross leasable area in the Bratislava central business district, from Austrian real estate group CA Immo. The price of the transaction has not been disclosed.

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It is our pleasure to support the Pan European Banking Meeting organised by the Financial Markets Association of Italy (Assiom Forex), taking place on 12 October in Milan. Marco Brambilla, Branch Manager of WOOD & Co. Italy, along with Italian financial institutions representatives, will discuss the topic of the role of central banks and asset management strategies in sustainable finance development.  

Click here to find out more information about the meeting, in Italian only.

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We are pleased to announce that WOOD & Co.’s Real Estate Funds have been ranked as the best-performing funds of qualified investors on the Czech real estate market. Both of our real estate funds, WOOD & Co. Real Estate Sub-fund I. and WOOD & Co. Czechoslovak High-Yield Real Estate Sub-fund, scored the highest rankings in a professional survey: Top Real Estate Funds 2018. The survey is organised by the prestigious Czech economic and business press Hospodářšké noviny, in cooperation with the Institute of Strategic Investment (ISTI), an innovative and educational body established at the University of Economics in Prague.

Read more here. 

We are pleased to announce that WOOD & Company has become a formal trading member of the Astana International Exchange (AIX). This is WOOD & Co.’s seventh exchange membership, along with the Prague, Budapest, Warsaw, Bucharest, Vienna and Ljubljana stock exchanges.

Read more here. 

On 27-28 February 2019, we hosted our 6th annual Romania Investor Days. The event, organised in partnership with Fondul Proprietatea, took place in London and was attended by 106 institutional investors representing 54 investment houses, and 40 representatives from 16 companies, who participated in 308 investor meetings in total. The event started with a presentation by the Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Romania, Mr. Liviu Voinea, who offered valuable insight into the country’s macroeconomic situation. Our guests also had the chance to attend the Kazakhstan Investor Panel, and discuss the country’s economy and capital markets opportunities in Central Asia with Timothy Bennett, the CEO of Astana International Exchange; Mukan Arginbayev, the Head of the Representative Office in London, SWF Samruk-Kazyna JSC; and Askar Namazbayev, the Deputy Country Head for Kazakhstan, EBRD.

At the 25th Annual Congress of Financial Markets Operators, held on 1-2 February 2019 in Rome, Sergio Zora, Managing Director of WOOD & Company’s Italian branch, was re-elected to the Board of the Financial Markets Association of Italy (ASSIOM FOREX), along with other representatives from the key Italian banking and financial institutions. 

Read more here. 

WOOD & Company is pleased to announce that it has been named as the No. 2 Stock Trading Company with the Highest Turnover for the Year, at “BÉT Legek” (Best of BSE), a gala evening organised by the Budapest Stock Exchange.

At the ceremony, WOOD & Company was represented by Elemér Gidófalvy, Senior Investment Banking Advisor, who commented: “We are thrilled to be recognised by the Budapest Stock Exchange as one of the Top Stock Trading Companies. Last year, we achieved EUR 4,231m in total value of traded stocks, which represents a 24.1% turnover ratio of domestic shares. This award has, once again, reaffirmed our deep local insight into the Hungarian equities market, and we believe that this year will be just as exciting.”

Read more here. 

The 25th annual convention for financial markets professionals will take place in Rome on 1-2 February 2019.

This event is an important opportunity for the exchange of ideas and opinions between financial operators and institutions, and will feature a speech from the Governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco, on Saturday (2 February).

The convention will take place at the Cinecittà Studios, and WOOD & Co. will be attending with its own stand.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Prominent business centre BBC5, in the attractive commercial zone on Plynárenská street in Bratislava, has a new owner: a Czecho-Slovak High Yield Fund managed by investment bank WOOD & Company has bought the business centre from the international Heitman Real Estate Fund. This is the second deal closed between the two companies this year: in November, the acquisition of Aupark Tower was declared the best investment transaction on the Slovak commercial real estate market in 2018 at the 14th CIJ Awards.

Read more here.

The largest Emerging Europe conference of the year: a one-of-a-kind event with unrivalled corporate participation 

Last week, 3-7 December, WOOD & Company hosted its 7th annual Winter Wonderland conference in Prague. This one-of-a-kind event, the biggest Emerging Europe conference of the year, connects money managers from around the world with the most compelling companies in Frontier and Emerging Europe.

The 7th edition of our conference strived once again to deepen the understanding of the regional investment climate, and provided a platform for discussion amongst senior members of management, key policy- and decision-makers, and a broad range of influential investors. The event attracted a larger-than-ever corporate attendance, 188 companies arrived in Prague to connect with 217 institutional investors, representing 116 investment houses. The participants attended 3,139 meetings in total.

Read more here. 

The best investment transaction in the commercial real estate market in Slovakia in 2018 was the purchase of the Aupark Tower office building by WOOD & Company. The Czecho-Slovak Investment Bank received the award at the prestigious14th annual CIJ Awards Slovakia in the “Real Estate Funds, Fund Management and Transactions” category.

At the ceremony in Bratislava, the award was presented to Martin Šmigura, Director of WOOD & Company’s Slovak Investment Banking, who commented on the transaction: “Aupark Tower is an exclusive office building, with wide panoramic views of Bratislava. Its strategic location near the city centre, the Janko Kráľ park and one of the most popular shopping centres in Slovakia, along with an excellent traffic connection to the highway, creates a special environment for both the professional and leisure activities of our tenants. For our real estate fund, Aupark Tower is a strategic asset”.

Read more here. 

Last week, in partnership with Fondul Proprietatea and Franklin Templeton Investments, we hosted our 6^th Frontier Investor Days confrence.

The event started with speeches from the Deputy Prime Minister of Romania, Mr. Viorel Stefan, His Excellency Mr. Andrew Noble, Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Romania, and the Deputy Chief of Mission, Ms. Abigail Rupp, from the US Embassy in Romania. Our guests also enjoyed discussions with Macroeconomist, Energy and Capital Market panellists from the International Monetary Fund, the Ministry of Energy, the EBRD, and other sector representatives.

The second day continued with 1on1 and group meetings, and the event was attended by 82 investors from 53 investment houses, and 62 representatives from 31 companies, who participated in 448 investor meetings in total.

We very much hope you enjoyed this event and are looking forward to our upcoming Romanian conferences!

WOOD & Company is pleased to announce the acquisition of three office buildings: the Hadovka Office Park located in Prague 6, and the Aupark Tower and the Lakeside Park in Bratislava. These acquisitions have doubled WOOD & Co.’s market value of the commercial real estate portfolio to EUR 360m and moved the company into the Top-5 Slovak players in office building investments.

The three buildings, with a total leasable area of 85,000 m² of GLA, were acquired by WOOD & Co.’s real estate fund by the end of June. According to the recent RICS valuations, the market value of the buildings exceeds EUR 190m and, together with last year's acquisition of the Westend project, exceeds EUR 200m, with a total leasable area of 93,000 m².

Read more here. 

On 13-14 June, we hosted the 4^th edition of our Emerging Europe Financials Conference in cooperation with Warsaw Stock Exchange.

This conference provided a forum for discussions on the results, outlooks and strategies of the leading financial companies in CEE, and involved 54 local and international institutional investors from 38 investment houses, who met with 17 companies and attended 249 meetings in total.

Our inaugural CEE Investor Days conference was a great success, co-hosted by the Bucharest, Prague and Warsaw Stock Exchanges on 23-24 May in New York.

The event brought together US investors and corporate management teams from the region; 34 companies participated, along with 84 institutional investors representing 59 US investment houses. The conference highlighted the progress made by the capital markets and showcased the top companies listed on the exchanges. To find out more about the conference, please read the official press release: https://bit.ly/2sSGnz2

On 3-4 May 2018, we hosted our 5^th annual Greek Investor Conference, at the Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso in Athens.

The event brought together local and regional investors with leading entrepreneurs running prosperous businesses in Greece. It was a unique opportunity for portfolio managers to discuss the current terms of business, outlook and strategy with board-level management during hour-long, one-on-one or group meetings. 

We are very pleased about the growing interest in this event, which attracted 50 investors from 32 investment houses, with over 350 meetings with 21 companies.

We are pleased to invite you to participate in polling for The Extel Europe Survey 2018. Your vote contributed significantly to the exceptional outcome last year, resulting in WOOD&Co. being named No.1 CEE Broker.

In the MiFID II environment, independent validation is becoming even more relevant than ever before. Extel is the foremost and most comprehensive independent evaluation of quality across the European equities investment industry.

Our advice is appreciated by investors for our local insight, paired with sector expertise, and we aim to provide this region-wide. For your reference, please find WOOD&Co.’s teams here, and see some of our highlights from 2017.

We would be grateful if you could take the time to vote in the 2018 rankings, which will remain open until 27 April 2018.

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5 - 8 December 2017 WOOD & Co. hosted its 6th Winter EME conference in Prague. It was again the largest Emerging Europe conference of the year with more than 700 attendees in total and magnificient feedback from investors and corporates.

The event was held over 5 days (4 days of meetings and 1 day extra being for site visits) and we had a grand total of:  

INVESTORS: 240 investors from 136 investment houses and 3325 in total. (last year was 198 investors from 108 investment houses with 2741  investor meetings).

COMPANIES: 167 Companies (last year we had 144) with 319 company reps registered (this excludes 17 WOOD analysts who held meetings)

1572 company meetings (last year 1403). 902 of these are 1x1s. 283 of these are 2x1s. 137 of these are 3x1s. 250 of these are Group meetings. (In 2016: 681 of these are 1x1s. 218 of these are 2x1s. 105 of these are 3x1s. 220 of these are Group meetings).

On 7 November, together with Belgrade Stock Exchange, we co-hosted our XVI INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – "UPGRADE IN BELGRADE 2017".

The conference brought together over 200 guests, who discussed the current macroeconomic trends in the country and their potential impacts, and at the connection between the development of the capital markets and the launch of the economy, which is still not established in Serbia, as well as at other capital market tools that are not available or are not used sufficiently in the domestic environment yet.

The event provided a great opportunity for 30 investors from 21 investment houses, who held over 100 meetings with 14 companies.

Read more here

On 7–8 September, in partnership with Fondul Proprietatea, we hosted our fifth annual Frontier Investor Days conference in Bucharest.  Once again, the demand was enormous. The event consisted of one-on-one investor meetings throughout the days, as part of Fondul Proprietatea’s annual Analyst and Investor Days event, which took place from 6-8 September.  

Offering an unparalleled depth of regional knowledge, the event brought together speakers and investors in small group and one-on-one meetings, designed to maximise interaction. 100 investors (compared to 76 last year) from 67 investment houses (last year 49), met with 43 company reps (64 in 2015) from 23 companies (last year 30) in 366 investor meetings, many of which were one-on-ones.

WOOD & Company to launch the first robo-advisory platform on the Czech market

This autumn WOOD & Company is planning to launch a new platform called Portu, which should revolutionise the way retail clients in the Czech Republic invest their money.

Klient Portu získá globálně diverzifikované portfolio na míru, složené z nízkonákladových likvidních instrumentů různých typů tak, aby struktura odpovídala jeho sklonu k riziku a současně schopnosti riziko nést. Každé portfolio bude průběžně monitorováno a optimalizováno s ohledem na vývoj trhů. Výsledkem optimalizace bude nižší volatilita a vyšší rizikově vážený výnos.

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WOOD& Co. is happy to announce that it has retained its position as No.1 CEE broker in the prestigious EXTEL 2017 survey. Our Sales team has risen to No.4 (up from No.9 last year) in the EMEA sales‎ category, illustrating our strong recognition in the broader region.
WOOD ranked No.4 overall in Greece and No.6 in Greece Equity Sales, in competition with much larger teams, and also performed well in individual rankings. Some highlights include:

- Lucian Albulescu – No.3 ‎CEE individual
- Lukasz Wachelko – No.4 EMEA Consumer analyst
- Bram Buring – No.5 CEE individual

During the Saturday workshops, WOOD&Co’s Raffaella Tenconi will speak on macro and Marco Brambilla on asset allocation.

Attendance is free for Assiom Forex members.
Please click here for further details: http://www.assiomforex.it/archivioFiles/savethedate10.05.17.pdf

On 7-8 June, in cooperation with the Warsaw Stock Exchange, we hosted the third edition of our Emerging Europe Financials Conference.

The event was a great success, attracting 60 investors (last year: 52) from over 41 institutions (15 international investors, vs. eight last year) who attended 338 meetings (mostly 1-on-1s) with 22 companies (40 company representatives).

Tomorrow, 8 June, Anna Fistolera will speak on the Global FX Code, together with a Bank of Italy representative.

Please see the attached PDF for further details.

We hosted our 4th Greek Investor Conference on 11-12 May 2017 at Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso in Athens.
Both the schedules and the quality of the meetings were categorised as excellent by clients: we hosted 35 investors from 25 investment houses, with almost 190 (!) meetings with 22 companies.

On 5 April, we hosted the first edition of the MedLife Investor & Analyst Day in Bucharest. The event was built around two pillars: site visits (seven main locations: two hospitals, two hyperclinics, one laboratory and two specialised centres) and a management presentation, followed by Q&A. The presentation was held at Phoenicia Grand Hotel, and was an interactive session, involving 20 investors and analysts.

On  4th April 2017, WOOD&Co hosted the second edition of Polish Innovation and Growth Conference in Stockholm, in partnership with Warsaw Stock Exchange. The event is made up of one-on-ones only.
The event hosted 18 investors, who participated in meetings with 10 companies, across a range of sectors.

On 1-2 March, WOOD&Co. hosted its fifth Romania Investor Days event in London, in partnership with Fondul Proprietatea. The event consisted of a morning of presentations, running concurrently with investor meetings throughout the day (1 March), and a day of one-on-ones (2 March).

INVESTORS
87 investors from 50 investment houses and 320 investor meetings in total (2016: 361 meetings).

COMPANIES
20 companies with 46 company reps registered (2016: 22 companies)

162 company meetings, including 88 one-on-ones, 27 two-on-ones, 15 three-on-ones and 32 group (2016: 163 company meetings in total)

SPEAKERS

Presentations were given by:  

Grzegorz Konieczny, CEO and Fund Manager of Fondul Proprietatea

H.E. Paul Brummell, British Ambassador to Romania

H.E. Dan Mihalache, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Romania

Mr. Liviu Voinea, Deputy Governor of National Bank of Romania

Ms. Raffaella Tenconi, Chief Economist of WOOD&Co

Mr. Valentin Ionescu, Manager of the Strategy and Financial Stability Directorate Financial Supervisory Authority

Mr. Stefan Nanu, Head of Treasury Ministry of Public Finances

The Institutional Investor 2017 Emerging EMEA research survey is now underway, until 31 March.
We were tremendously pleased by your support last year, when you voted us #1 Research Team in CEE, and would be grateful if you would kindly take the time to vote in the 2017 survey now open.

Our team, once again, for your reference:

Analysts by EMEA sector:

Chemicals:Oytun Altasli Maciej Wardejn
Construction and Real Estate: Jakub Caithaml Oytun Altasli
Consumer: Lukasz Wachelko Jakub Mician Gabriela Burdach
Financials: Alex Boulougouris Marta Jezewska-Wasilewska Jerzy Kosinski Can Demir LucianAlbulescu
Health Care and Pharmaceuticals: Bram Buring
Metals and Mining: Andrew Jones
Oil and Gas: Jonathan Lamb Ondrej Slama
TMT: Piotr Raciborski Bram Buring
Transportation: Maciej Wardejn
Utilities: Bram Buring

Analysts by region:

CE3:
Lucian Albulescu
Alex Boulougouris
Gabriela Burdach
Bram Buring
Jakub Caithaml
Marta Jezewska-Wasilewska
Jonathan Lamb
Jakub Mician
Piotr Raciborski
Ondrej Slama
Lukasz Wachelko
Maciej Wardejn
Pawel Wieprzowski

Frontier Markets:
Lucian Albulescu
Can Demir
Lukasz Wachelko

Turkey:
Oytun Altasli
Can Demir

Economics:
Raffaella Tenconi
Pawel Wieprzowski

The vote is analyst-based, i.e., you can vote for several analysts from one firm even within a given sector. The survey permits you to vote for the same analyst in several categories, and we would be grateful if you considered it appropriate to do so.

Sales:
Voters can choose a salesperson in these categories (the vote is salesperson-based as well, i.e., you can vote for more than one salesperson in one category)

• Best understanding of client needs and customized service
• Best at providing special services (company visits, conferences, etc.)
• Knowledge and effective communication of research product
• Most proactive in facilitating/integrating access to analysts
• Quality of idea generation
• Quality of relationship
• Quality of service intensity & responsiveness
• Which sales team provides the best Global context for Emerging EMEA portfolios

Voters can choose from these salespersons:
Kristen Andrasko
Jennifer Ewing
Jan Jandak
Ashley Keep
Jan Koch
Piotr Kopec
Zuzana Mora
Ioana Pop
Vinay Ruparelia
Tatiana Sarandinaki
Grzegorz Skowronski
Jan Thomson
Jarek Tomczynski
Kostas Tsigkourakos
Markus Ulreich

If you have not yet received your personalised link to the ballot from II, please request it via www.institutionalinvestor.com/rankingassistance, or go to http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/Research_CustomerService.html:

1)      Click Go next to Emerging EMEA Research Team survey
2)      Complete your Name, Last Name, Email, Telephone number
3)      Choose Buy side or Sell side
4)      Add the details of your Primary Area of Responsibility (occupation) and your firm (name, type, country, website, and if you have chosen ‘buy-side’, a range that describes your firm’s actively managed assets), as well as the number of brokerage firms that you currently use for research (for buy-side)
5)      Mark if you are a previous voter (if applicable)
6)      After all the obligatory fields have been completed, please click Submit. You will receive a request confirmation from Institutional Investor and, shortly thereafter, an email with a link to the voting ballot

The deadline for requesting a ballot is Friday, 10 March.  

Thank you for your time and for your support!

We hosted the 4th edition of our Small & Mid-Caps – “Pulse of the Economy” conference in Warsaw on 24-25 January, with a total of 13 companies and 89 investors from 41 investment management firms.

WOOD&Co., in Partnership with Budapest Stock Exchange, hosted the first edition of our Hungarian Investor Day on 26 January, where we drew together six companies with 33 investors representing 23 investment houses.

Our stand at Modena Fiere from 27-28^th January 2017 was a great success.
Our equity trader Anna Fistolera has been rewarded by the Assiom Forex Board as one of the three best young members of the whole association.
Anna teaches Assiom seminars and is a member of two commissions.

The 23rd Assiom Forex Convention, to be held at ModenaFiere from 27-28th January, sees the participation of WOOD & Co., a leading independent investment bank focused on the Central and Eastern European markets.

Founded in Prague in 1991, WOOD & Co. has over 25 years’ experience in investment banking services in the Emerging Europe area.

With 200 employees, including 20 research analysts, and six branches in Europe, WOOD & Co. offers analysis and research coverage on close to 180 individual stocks, and is the best access point to the CEE equity and bond markets, according to the 2014 and 2015 Reuters Extel surveys (and #1 for research in the 2016 survey).

WOOD & Co. is a member of the Prague Stock Exchange, along with the Warsaw, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia and Ljubljana exchanges, and offers market access to Greece and Turkey, as well as the former-Yugoslavian and Baltic countries. It has offices in Prague, London, Milan, Warsaw, Bratislava and Bucharest. Through its Milan branch, it also offers execution services on Equities and Bonds in the Western European and US markets.

In addition, WOOD & CO. offers a wide range of investment banking and corporate finance services, such as large-scale privatisations, IPOs, capital market transactions, fund raising and corporate advisory.

ATTENDANCE AT THE 23^RD ASSIOM FOREX CONVENTION

WOOD & Co. considers its attendance at the Assiom Forex convention to be very important. Sergio Zora, our Milan Branch Manager (see photo), is a member of the Board of the Association; Dario Sala Veni, is co-head of the FX committee; and Anna Fistolera is a member of the training/formation committee, as well as teaching courses organised by the Association.

To deepen your knowledge of Emerging European market scenarios, please visit the WOOD & Co. stand (number 20) at ModenaFiere, Friday 27th January.

Last week, WOOD&Co. hosted its fifth Winter EME conference in Prague. The feedback we have received from corporates and clients has been hugely positive. Once again, our event was the largest Emerging Europe conference of the year, with 650 attendees in total.‎
The event was held over five days (four days of meetings, plus one for site visits), with:‎
INVESTORS: A total of 198 investors from 108 investment houses, and 2,748 investor meetings. (Last year, we had 186 investors from 114 investment houses, with 2,845  investor meetings.)
COMPANIES: 144 companies (last year: 134), with 274 company representatives registered (excluding the 15 WOOD analysts who held meetings).
1,405 company meetings (last year: 1,224): 758 one-on-ones; 250 two-on-ones; 100 three-on-ones; and 174 group meetings.

On 3 November, together with Belgrade Stock Exchange, we co-hosted our XV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: UPGRADE IN BELGRADE 2016

The conference, the biggest so far in terms of the number of participating companies and investors, brought together over 300 guests from Serbia and abroad to look at the current macroeconomic trends in the country and their potential impacts, and at the connection between the development of capital markets and the launch of the economy, which is still not established in Serbia, as well as at other capital market tools that are not available or are not used sufficiently in the domestic environment yet.

Statistics from the conference

- Total number of companies to hold meetings – 22

- Total number of participating investors – 27 companies, including 11 foreign investors

- Total number of meetings held – 123

- Conference participants – 305 registered in total (plus some last-minute arrivals)

On 8-9 September, WOOD&Co., in partnership with Fondul Proprietatea, hosted its fourth Frontier Investor Days event in Bucharest. Due to the strong demand, the extent was extended to cover two days this year, with one-on-one investor meetings over both days. The event was the last part of Fondul Proprietatea’s annual event, its Analyst and Investor Days, which took place over 7-8 September. 
Offering an unparalleled depth of regional knowledge, the event brought together speakers and investors in small group and one-on-one meetings, and was designed to maximise interaction.
76 investors (last year: 66 investors) from 49 investment houses (last year: 40) met with 64 company representatives (last year: 51) from 30 companies (last year: 24) in 440 investor meetings in total (including 123 one-on-ones).

AssiomForex, with the participation of Borsa Italiana and Wood&Co., would like to invite you to the XIV Pan European Banking Meeting, which will be held in Milan on 14-15 October.
Please see the schedule below:

Friday 14th
15.00 Starhotels Business Palace - Via Privata Pietro Gaggia, 3 - 20139 Milano

Euro Area - Risk and Opportunities in a zero rates environment
Speakers: Maria Cannata - Director of Public Debt at Ministry of Economy and Finances - Treasury Department
Prof. Lorenzo Codogno - Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Roberto Rinaldi - Vice Head of Payment System and Markets department - Bank of Italy

Moderator: Debora Rosciani - Radio24 - Il Sole24Ore

Saturday 15th
09.00 Starhotels Business Palace - Via Privata Pietro Gaggia, 3 - 20139 Milano

Parallel Workshops:

Towards 2018: countdown to the new European financial markets
Speakers: Umberto Menconi and Monica Cammarano – Banca IMI Luca Bagato – Euro TLX
Raffaella Tenconi and Grzegorz Skowronski – Wood & Co.: “Brexit – effects on Central Eastern European markets”.

Moderator: Giuseppe Di Vittorio – Class CNBC

Stock lending: the evolution of one of the principal financing means for intermediaries and for retail online trading

Speakers:

Carlo Portoni – Banca Akros
Francesca Dell’Era – Eurex
Stefano Sardelli and Giacomo Turco – Invest Banca

Moderator: Gianluca Baldini – Blue Financial Communication

13.00 Starhotels Business Palace - Via Privata Pietro Gaggia, 3 - 20139 Milano
Lunch

14.30 East End Studios - Via Mecenate, 84/10 - 20138 Milano
Team Building MasterchefMistery Box Invention test

18.00
Evening drink and buffet dinner with award ceremony

For more information, please click here: http://www.assiomforex.it/convegni/convegni 

It is with great pleasure that we announce that WOOD&Co has been voted the Number 1 house in CEE Research in the Institutional Investor survey.
Huge thanks to all our investors for contributing to the vote!
Please click on this link to access the full article:
http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/3559806/research-and-rankings/the-2016-emerging-emea-research-team-features-42-newcomers.html#/.V1Vm8E1f0cQ

On 24 May, the third joint Ljubljana and Zagreb Stock Exchanges’ Investor Day was held in Zagreb, in association with WOOD & Co. This year’s conference was the most successful to date, with investor interest in meeting the participating listed companies up 25% compared to last year. High-quality listed companies from Slovenia (7) and Croatia (6) participated in the Conference: Atlantic Grupa, Intereuropa, Gorenje, Hrvatski Telekom, Krka, Luka Koper, Luka Rijeka, Petrol, Podravka, Pozavarovalnica Sava, Tankerska Next Generation, Zavarovalnica Triglav and Valamar Riviera.

The event was attended by 28 investment companies and banks along with 55 analysts and investors from Hungary, Czech Republic, Estonia, the US, Croatia and Slovenia. The conference received a record 186 requests for meetings, and the companies held as many as 160 individual and group meetings.

WOOD & Company, in cooperation with the Warsaw Stock Exchange, hosted its Second Emerging Europe Financials Conference from 1-2 June 2016. The event was a great success, attracting 52 investors from more than 36 institutions,who attended 192 meetings (102 of which were 1-on-1; 24 were 2-on-1; 11 of 3-on-1; and 55 group meetings) with 23 companies.

We recently hosted our 3rd Greek Investor Conference. The event took place from Thursday 12 May to Friday 13 May, 2016 at Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso in Athens. Since our previous Greek Conference it has almost doubled in size and this year we had a good turnout of both international and local investors.  In summary there were 38 investors from 26 investment houses who attended an impressive 200 meetings with 21 companies (2015 statistics: 27 investors, 19 companies, and 130 meetings).

On 6th April 2016 we hosted, in partnership with Warsaw Stock Exchange, Polish Innovation and Growth Conference in very unique venues of Grand Hotel in Stockholm.

The event was held for one-on-ones only and in total 14 investors and 8 companies participated.

WOOD&Co., Milan Branch, was pleased to invite you to a presentation of its services.

For more information please click here

For further details, please click on this link (Italian language only): http://www.bluerating.com/banche-e-reti/180-banche/46627-wood-apre-le-porte-dei-paesi-dellest-agli-istituzionali.html

29 February-March 2016 saw our fourth annual “Romania Investor Days” conference in London, in partnership with Fondul Proprietatea and Franklin Templeton Investments. The event got off to a busy and informative start, with a full morning of engaging presentations by government representatives and market authorities. This was followed by a further day and a half of individual investor meetings with the management representatives of 22 of the major listed and currently non-listed companies in Romania. Our Romania Investor Days conference is growing each year, which is a clear reflection of the increasing importance of this market. This year, we held a total of 361 investor meetings: an increase of 20% on the previous year! At WOOD&Co, we continue with our strong commitment to the Romanian capital market, one of the focal points of our business. We aim to maintain and consolidate our market-leading position, and we remain dedicated to increasing Romania's visibility among emerging and frontier market investors globally.

It is with great pleasure that we announce our 5th annual WOOD's Winter Wonderland - EME Conference in Prague, to be held from 28 November to 2 December 2016. We look forward to bringing together both local and international investors with regional corporate management teams at the Radisson Blu Alcron Hotel in the “Golden City” of Prague once again.

WOOD&Co. hosted its 3rd annual Small & Mid-Caps Conference on 26-27 January 2016 at Novotel Warsaw, with 98 investors from 40 investment houses who attended 539 meetings (368 of which were groups; 55 1on1s; 58 2on1s; and 58 3on1s) with 20 companies.

On 1-4 December 2015, WOOD & Company had the great pleasure of hosting its 4th annual Emerging Europe Conference “WOOD’s Winter in Prague”, the largest Emerging Europe event of the year, with a total of 600 attendees, covering the TMT and Materials, Financials and Diversified, Energy, Utilities and Industrials, Consumer, Real Estate, and Healthcare sectors. We also organised an additional day for site visits for investors, accompanied by our sales team and analysts.

Our conferences are based largely on 1-on-1 or small group discussions between investors and board-level management to ensure in-depth and effective meetings. During this year’s conference, WOOD hosted 186 investors from 114 investment houses and 134 companies, with 230 company representatives, including 10 WOOD analysts, with 2,845 investor and 1,224 company meetings in total.

All of the feedback we have received from both corporates and clients has been hugely positive, without exception. Corporates are increasingly asking us about additional WOOD&Co. events that they can attend throughout the year – another sign of our success.

On Thursday, 29 October, WOOD & Company had the pleasure of hosting our third Frontier Investor Day in Bucharest. The conference was organised as part of our annual Analyst and Investor Days, and once again demonstrated our successful partnership with Fondul Proprietatea.

The full-day event brought together speakers and investors with both knowledge of and keen interest in the region. The group meetings and one-on-ones were designed to accommodate the maximum interaction between attendees: 66 investors from 40 investment houses met with 51 company representatives from 24 companies in 164 investor meetings.

WOOD & Company has been a member of the Bucharest Exchange since 2007 and boasts close to a 26% market share.

WOOD & Company is among the sponsors of the PAN European Banking Meeting organised by Assiom Forex (the Italian Financial Markets Association) in cooperation with Borsa Italiana (the Milan Stock Exchange). The event will bring together representatives of the main Italian financial institutions and will be focused on discussing the challenges for European markets in a post QE scenario.

The first day of the conference will feature a panel of ranging speakers, from State Treasury members to the General Director of ABI (Italian Banking Association). The second day of the conference will consist of various workshops in the morning and an afternoon of team building events.

A member of Wood & Co. will be among the speakers of the workshop titled “Multistrategy post QE: come si modifica la strategia di allocazione dall’ALM all’Equity e senza dimenticare l’evoluzione della Consulenza” (Multistrategy post QE: the changes in asset allocation strategy from ALM to Equity with a focus on the evolution of Consulting). This workshop will be held partly in Italian and partly in English.

WOOD & Company has once again been voted 'Best Brokerage Firm' in Central/Eastern Europe in the Extel Thomson Reuters survey, ranked first out of 56 institutions. We think this reflects our dedication to providing a high standard of locally-informed CEE coverage. We are pleased to highlight that three individuals scored top honors: Robert Rethy, our Head of Research and Energy analyst, ranked #1 individual in Central/Eastern Europe, Ioana Pop, our London-based EMEA salesperson, followed just behind Robert in the individual CEE rankings with the #2 slot, Ashley Keep, our London-based sales trader, ranked #1 for Emerging EMEA Trading & Execution. Congratulations to them. And to the strong research, sales, and execution teams who assured WOOD&Co’s success in the survey this year. The Pan-European Extel Survey by Thomson Reuters is the biggest of its kind, with more than 7,500 respondents from 62 countries and more than 250,000 individual votes cast. Thank you to the investors who supported WOOD & Company - it is greatly appreciated.

WOOD & Company in partnership with the Warsaw Stock Exchange (GPW) organised the highly successful Emerging Europe Financials Conference in Warsaw on 11 and 12 June. The event brought together banks, insurers and financial firms with operations in Central and Eastern Europe as well as representatives of large investment houses in the region. The event gathered 26 companies: Alior Bank, Alpha Bank, Athens Exchange Group, Bank Millennium, Bank of Georgia, Bank Pekao, Bank Zachodni WBK, Bucharest Stock Exchange, City Handlowy, CSOB, Erste Group, Getin Noble Bank, ING Bank Śląski, Komercni banka, KRUK, mBank, Moscow Exchange, National Bank of Greece, OTP Bank Group, PKO BP, PZU SA, Sava Reinsurance Company, TBC Bank, Vienna Insurance Group, Vozrozhdenie Bank and Warsaw Stock Exchange. More than 70 investment fund managers and representatives of 44 financial institutions took part in over 200 group and one-on-one meetings. “The scale and format of the event which we have organised together with GPW is almost unprecedented in Warsaw. We are very happy with the reception of our initiative both by issuers and by local and international institutional investors,” said Grzegorz Skowroński, Director of WOOD & Company in Poland.

The fifth edition of the international Warsaw Capital Market Summit 2015 (WCMS) – dedicated to Polish & CEE capital markets - will be held on 18 June 2015 at the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The event brings together a large group of investors, issuers, economic journalists, and representatives of financial institutions and public administration from around the world. It’s a platform to facilitate cooperation between CEE companies considering public offerings, and global investors seeking new market opportunities in Europe. The important topic of capital market growth in the light of the new EU budget will be addressed. Investors can attend panel discussions devoted to selected economic sectors, as well as company presentations. WOOD & Co. is once again pleased to be a partner in this event organized by the Ministry of the State Treasury of Poland, the Warsaw Stock Exchange and the Central Securities Depository of Poland.

The Regional Finance and Investment Conference for Southeast Europe will take place on 4 June 2015 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bucharest. This international conference is devoted to capital markets in Romania and the wider Southeast Europe region. The conference will gather over 300 issuers and investors to discuss the challenges and opportunities for the economies of Southeast Europe. The event schedule will be filled with editorially-driven panel discussions, keynote speeches, country-focused roundtables and sponsored workshops. WOOD & Co. will be one of the sponsors of the conference.

On 14-15 May 2015, WOOD & Co. hosted its second annual Greek conference on the Athens Riviera, this time at Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso. Over two days, 30 investors from 19 investment houses participated in 130 meetings with 25 companies. We were happy to present the viewpoints of local political analysts, public officials, and the Central Bank of Greece, and to provide a forum for discussion of the Greek macro political backdrop. WOOD & Co. covers eighteen companies listed on the Athens exchange, with our product headed by locally-based analyst Alex Boulougouris. We remain dedicated to providing both a deep and a broad understanding of the Greek equity market to investors.

We are delighted to report that our Romania Investor Day in London on 5 March – the third we have hosted – was an immense success, attracting 90 investors from over 60 institutions. This is a significant increase over past years and testament to the growing interest in Romania. This interest reflects a number of positive changes in the macro-economic backdrop, the regulatory climate and the liquidity of the exchange.

Our partners were once again the Bucharest Stock Exchange and Fondul Proprietatea. We thank them for their assistance in bringing together the management of listed companies, government officials and macro-economic experts with the leading buy-side institutions.

WOOD & Co is the number one international broker in Romania. We became members of the Bucharest Stock Exchange in 2007. With the opening of WOOD’s Bucharest office last year, headed by Bogdan Campianu, we have underlined our commitment to this rapidly developing market.

We are proud to announce (after the official release from the Bucharest Stock Exchange) that WOOD & Co has received two prizes at the Inauguration of the Stock Exchange Year 2015, namely:

- BVB International member with the highest share in turnover and the promotion of the BVB markets in the international market community; and 

- BVB member with the most active involvement as Market Maker in shares in 2014

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On 10-11 February 2015, WOOD & Company held its second Pulse of the Economy Small & Mid-Cap Conference in Warsaw. The event once again showcased interesting, listed mid-cap companies from a variety of sectors, bringing many of these smaller enterprises onto the radar of EME institutional investors. These investors had the opportunity to meet with senior management on a one-on-one basis, as well as in small groups. Highlighting the best of the regional “up-and-coming” stocks, this event brought together 21 companies that we believe offer attractive opportunities across the CEE Small & Mid Cap universe.

WOOD & Co. hosted its third annual Winter EME Conference in Prague (2-5 December 2014), building on its success of prior years. We hosted more than 170 investors from almost 100 investor houses, who met with representatives from more than 140 companies operating in Emerging & Frontier Europe and the Middle East. We held 2,500 meetings over the five days, making our 2014 Winter EME Conference the largest in Europe. In attendance were influential policymakers and industry experts, who shared their insights into key issues affecting the region’s economy.

The dates are already set for WOOD & Company‘s Winter Wonderland: Emerging Europe Conference 2015, in Prague on 1-4 December. Please contact [email protected] for details.

We are most pleased to announce that in November 2014 we have teamed up with Tatiana Sarandinaki in order to bolster our fruitful cooperation with Enclave Capital (a unique international brokerage and capital markets advisory firm based in the US). Tatiana will assist WOOD & Company in reaching out to US institutions, further developing our relationship with this important Emerging Markets investors base. Previously, Mrs. Sarandinaki was an Emerging Markets salesperson at Espirito Santo; she also worked at UniCredit for five years, covering the Russian, Turkish, and Central & Eastern European markets. Ms. Sarandinaki started her investment career at Aton Securities in 2004, focusing on the Russian/OS market. Aton Securities Inc. was purchased by UniCredit Bank AG in 2007. Ms. Sarandinaki holds a B.A. in Economics from Rutgers University and is fluent in Russian.

On September 1, 2014, WOOD & Company Financial Services, a.s. completed the acquisition of Integrated Financial Product’s Italian business. IFP has a total of 22 employees and over 20+ years on the Italian market. As a result of this transaction, the renamed WOOD & Company – Milan Branch becomes the leading Italy-based IDB „interbank brokerage firm.“

WOOD & Company – Milan Branch will continue to focus on providing sophisticated institutional brokerage services in fixed income, foreign exchange, money market products, OTC derivatives, funds distribution and equity derivatives products.

“For WOOD, the acquisition of IFP is a significant expansion of its product base and market reach. WOOD will benefit from the many synergies between the two business models and clientele of both firms. I personally believe the business in Milan will get stronger and its competitiveness will be enhanced under the umbrella of WOOD & Company,” says Vladimir Jaroš, CEO. Mr. Jaroš goes on to add, “I also believe all business partners, suppliers and most importantly clients of Integrated Financial Products will benefit from this transaction.”