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Alan Vandenberghe ...
  • Jason Kalamboussis
  • Joachim Vansanten
  • Lenny Van Steenhuyse
  • Ruben Devos
  • Sandra Cauwenberghs
  • Wido Jongman
  • Wim Hoste

Morning Note: AGS BB, ATEB BB, BPOST BB, GREEN BB, IVA FP, RET BB, SEQUA:BB, UMI BB

Ageas: Chinese premiums growth back on track in style
Atenor: Sale of last office building Au Fil Des Grands Pres
bpost: CEO mentioned in potential market abuse case
Greenyard: No surprises for FY19/20, guidance a bit soft
Inventiva: Lanifibranor sets the new bar in NASH treatment
Retail Estates: Increase of estimates post rent deal
Sequana Medical: MOSAIC alfapump study results published
Umicore: Issues € 500m convertible bonds
Dynamic Top Pick List: Adding Inventiva to the dynamic topic list
Underlyings
Ageas SA/NV

Ageas is an insurance company engaged in providing a range of life and non-life products distributed through a variety of channels. Co. focuses on helping its customers to mitigate risks related to property, casualty, life and pensions. Co. serves its customers through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries, equity associates and partnerships, with financial institutions and distributors in Belgium, the U.K., Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, France, China, Malaysia, India, Thailand and Hong Kong. Co. is organized into five operating segments: Belgium, U.K., Continental Europe, Asia, and General Account.

ATENOR S.A.

Atenor Group is a holding company. Co., through its subsidiaries, is a real estate developer that specializes in large-scale, urban real estate projects that meet strict criteria in terms of location, economic effectiveness and respect of the environment including office buildings, mixed used and residential complexes. Co. has acquired diversified know-how which it uses to design and build projects in Belgium and other countries throughout Europe.

Bpost SA

Bpost is engaged in the provision of national and international mail and parcels services comprising the collection, transport, sorting and distribution of addressed and non-addressed mail, printed documents, newspapers and parcels. In addition, through its subsidiaries and business units, Co. sells a range of other products and services, including postal, parcels, banking and financial products, express delivery services, document management and related activities. Co. operates through two business units: the Mail & Retail Solutions and the Parcels & International.

Greenyard NV

Greenyard processes and commercializes fruits, vegetables, and ready-to eat food products in France, the United kingdom, Germany, Belgium, other EU-countries, and internationally. Co.'s operation is divided into two divisions: The frozen division known as Pinguin and the canning division under the name of Noliko. The Frozen division offers frozen vegetables and fruits, deep-frozen vegetable dishes, and ready-to-use meals to retail, food service, and food industry. The Canning division processes vegetables and fruit from the field into preserved foods in cans and jars. The division also prepares ready-to-eat food such as soups, sauces, dips and pasta dishes.

Inventiva SA

Inventiva is a clinical stage biotechnology research company delivering therapies in the areas of oncology, fibrosis and rare diseases. The most advanced clinical programs (IVA337 for systemic sclerosis in Non-Alcoholic Steato-Hepatitis and IVA336 for Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome-MPS VI) have demonstrated efficacy in relevant in vivo and in vitro models as well as safety in phase I and phase II clinical trials. Using its in-house drug discovery platform, which covers target validation, screening, chemistry, ADME and pharmacology, Co. is developing an internal oncology and fibrosis discovery pipeline with approaches centered on transcription factors, epigenetics targets and nuclear receptors.

Retail Estates NV

Retail Estates is a niche fixed-capital real estate investment fund that invests in retail properties located on the periphery of residential areas or along access roads to urban centers. Co. buys properties from third parties or builds and markets shop premises for its own account. The outlets have a built on surface areas of between 500m2 and 3,000m2. A typical retail property has an average surface area of 1,000m2. As of Mar 2010 Co. had 399 premises in its portfolio. The retail lettable area amounted to 398,754m2.

Sequana Medical

Sequana Medical NV. Sequana Medical NV is a Belgium-based company, which manufactures medical devices. The Company focuses mainly on the development of treatment solutions for the management of liver disease, heart failure, malignant ascites and other fluid imbalance disorders. Sequana Medical NV provides alfapump, which is an implantable, programmable, wireless-charged and battery-powered system that is CE-marking for the management of refractory ascites due to liver cirrhosis and malignant ascites. Over 650 alfapump systems have been implanted. Apart from the Alfapump, the Company also aims to develop a direct sodium removal (DSR) therapy, which is a propriety approach to the treatment of volume overload in heart failure.

Umicore

Umicore is global player in the materials technology and recycling industries. Co. focuses on application areas such as chemistry, materials science, metallurgy and recycling. Co.'s business model comprises four segments: Catalysis, Performance Materials, Energy Materials and Recycling. Catalysis focuses on the abatement of global automotive emissions; Performance Materials focuses on materials that help develop more sophisticated and safer products; Energy Materials produces materials used in the production and storage of clean energy including rechargeable batteries and photovoltaics; and Recycling treats complex waste streams containing precious and other non-ferrous metals.

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Analysts
Alan Vandenberghe

Jason Kalamboussis

Joachim Vansanten

Lenny Van Steenhuyse

Ruben Devos

Sandra Cauwenberghs

Wido Jongman

Wim Hoste

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