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For Macron, who worked for a spell as an investment banker, it
is a way to show investors he has delivered on his first batch
of pro-business reforms, including one of the labour market and
one scrapping a wealth tax, they said.
"We have passed the first hurdles, on the labour market reform
or the vote on the budget. It's the good moment to do it," an
advisor to Macron said.
"International investors feel like Europe is back and that
France holds the leadership," the advisor said.
Some 21 global heads of sovereign funds, investment and pension
funds from North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East will
attend the dinner in the Winter Garden, a glass-roofed room of
the Elysee Palace, with Macron.
They are set to meet France's finance and economy ministers and
advisors before the meal with Macron.
Representatives of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager,
will attend, a spokeswoman for the U.S. fund told Reuters.
The presidential advisor, who requested anonymity, said
Britain's exit from the European Union was also an opportunity
to promote France as a destination at the heart of the European
single market.
"It's clear we're going towards a hard Brexit," the advisor
said. "It's an opportunity for continental Europe, and we're
also playing our card because we have political and economic
momentum," he said.
(Reporting by Michel Rose and Maya Nicolaeva; Editing by Brian
Love)
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