Alternative Investment Forum:
Russia & CIS

Sponsored by:
Valartis Group

Valartis Asset Management brings together an experienced team of portfolio managers, analysts, traders and other professionals based in Geneva, Zurich, Vienna and Moscow.   Total group AUM as of Dec 2009 was CHF 6.4 billion, with over 1 billion invested in emerging markets.

Over the past decade, Valartis has launched a range of specialized funds in Russia, Eastern Europe, the CIS and the broader global emerging markets, investing in
listed equities, fixed income, private equity and real estate.


Syncopate

Syncopate unites Global Gamers Pool on a basis of our GameNet technology. Our goals by 2014:

  • 5 mln active users of GameNet in Russia/CIS and 2 mln in Europe
  • Online game publishing - revenues of $157 mln based on our aim of 50% market share in Russia, and $56 mln for 15% market share in Europe
  • Online game publishing independently by the the developers - total revenues of $143 mln in Russia and Europe
  • Many e-commerce programs for the information delivery

Nord Capital

Founded in 2003, Nord Capital Group is a boutique financial advisory and asset management firm providing a full scope of investment banking services to companies, institutional and individual investors. Nord Capital activities include Asset Management, Brokerage, Investment Banking services. www.ncapital.ru

Associate sponsor:
Equinox Fund Management

As a specialist Fund Manager, Equinox focuses on investment opportunities within Russia and the CIS. It manages the Russian Opportunities Fund, a Guernsey Registered Class B Scheme, established in 1996 with a strategy to achieve capital growth in this emerging market region.

Media partners
AllEquityFunds

AllEquityFunds (AEF - http://www.allequityfunds.com/) – group of companies, its media business line includes:
- AllEquityFunds (mass media, №FS77-38766), owner of the largest private equity Web portal in the region – AllEquityFunds.com, the largest community of private equity funds and professionals in Russia, Ukraine and the CIS;
- the only English-language private equity journal in the CIS - Private Equity Russia&CIS Journal (PERCIS) (http://www.percis.ru/).


Hedge week

Hedgeweek is the hedge fund industry’s leading portal on news and topical features = including updates on new fund launches, investment trends, regulatory news and distribution strategies, and a regular series of market surveys and fund manager interviews.  Hedgeweek produces a free weekly and a daily newsletter covering essential news and features within the Hedge Fund industry.  

Click here to access www.hedgeweek.com


Private Equity Wire

Private Equity Wire is the private equity industry’s  leading portal on news and topical features, including updates on new fund launches, investment trends, regulatory news and distribution strategies, and a regular series of market surveys and product profiles.  Private Eq uity WIre produces a free daily newsletter covering essential news and features within the private equity industry and a series of special reports.

Click here to access  www.privateequitywire.co.uk


EPFR Global

EPFR Global provides fund flows and asset allocation data to financial institutions around the world. Tracking both traditional and alternative funds domiciled globally with $13 trillion in total assets, we deliver a complete picture of institutional and individual investor flows and fund manager allocations driving global markets. Our market moving data services include daily, weekly and monthly equity and fixed income fund flows and monthly fund allocations by country, sector and security.


Finance Magazine

Журнал «Финанс.»
Деловой журнал для грамотного управления деньгами. Издание ориентировано на людей, чьи деловые и личные интересы связаны с финансовой сферой.
Журнал «Финанс.» это:
- профессиональный анализ российской экономики и мировых финансов
- интересные тенденции в банковском, страховом и промышленном секторах - Опыт успешных финансистов и предпринимателей
- анализ и прогнозы финансовых рынков
- личные инвестиции в финансовые инструменты, недвижимость, собственный бизнес, образование
- актуальная информация о финансовых услугах

Контакты  журнала «Финанс.»:
127015, г.Москва, ул. Новодмитровская, д.5А, стр.8
телефон/факс: (495) 660-17-16
E-mail: inform@finansmag.ru
www.finansmag.ru


bne

bne is the first business publication dedicated to covering finance, economics, politics and business in the dynamic markets of Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe. Our team of veteran journalists collectively have more than 50 years of reporting on the 17 countries of New Europe. bne goes beyond the headlines to provide in-depth reporting and incisive commentary that explains the "why" behind the "what" of current events. Sign up for a free month’s trial — just go to http://www.businessneweurope.eu click on a story and register.


Analytical Banking Magazine

The Analytical Banking Magazine

11 Sharikopodshipnikovskaya str., 115088, Moscow, Russia
The Analytical Center for Financial Information
Tel.: +7 (495) 747-60-64, 747-80-84.
E-mail: info@abajour.ru
Website: www.abajour.ru

The Analytical Banking Magazine is a respectable monthly magazine published since 1995. Over the last several years the magazine has been recognized as the most professional and popular edition in Russian banking industry. The magazine’s subscribers include heads of banks, insurance, financial and investment companies, government, representatives of the legislative and executive authorities from Russia, the CIS, the Baltic States and foreign countries.


Templeton Thorp

TT-TOTAL is an online, in-depth multiple source intelligence and information platform in both English and Russian, covering 30 countries from Central Europe to Central Asia, and 44 sectors from aerospace and defence to metals and mining. With detailed coverage of news on over 700 companies and nearly 400 business and political figures in the region, TT-TOTAL offers unrivalled speed and flexibility to its subscribers. The service is provided by Templeton Thorp, the definitive independent market specialist for all forms of intelligence, business and political information, and due diligence in the former Soviet Union and Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.

Website: www.tt-total.com


Eurekahedge

Eurekahedge is world’s largest independent data provider and research house dedicated to alternative investments. Maintaining coverage of over 22,000 funds across all strategies and asset classes, Eurekahedge is the most widely used and quoted alternative research house worldwide.

Eurekahedge has produced a market-leading research data suite from which our hedge fund and Islamic fund indices are derived; an array of region-specific hedge fund, private equity fund, Islamic fund, real estate fund, enhanced equity fund (130/30) and socially responsible investment fund (SRI) databases; as well as a collection of educational guides for both funds and investors.

Founded in 2001, Eurekahedge has offices in London, New York and Singapore.
 
For more information, please contact Ivy Keh, at ivy.keh@eurekahedge.com or +65 6212 0900. US Office Line: +1 212 308 4272, UK toll free: 0808 2343 386


AltAssets

AltAssets The world’s most widely used source of information on the private equity and venture capital industry is becoming even more valuable.  Get the information you need and join over 10,000 private equity professionals who use the site every day.

We’re bringing you: more content to address your daily news needs and your ongoing research requirements, more website features to enable you to customise your pages to filter and prioritise the information you receive, and more ways to connect with the global private equity community. 

Come and see the new AltAssets for yourself.
http://www.altassets.com


Cbonds

Cbonds (www.cbonds.info) is an information project of Cbonds.ru Ltd. devoted to fixed income markets in Russia, Ukraine and CIS countries. The site provides comprehensive information on the debt market events, traces news and market opportunities, maintains a debt securities database covering all issues of debt securities. Apart from the information on debt markets of Russia, Ukraine and CIS countries the site offers coverage of the most important global bond market news.
Cbonds.info site provides information in two languages: Russian and English.


Cbonds Review, Magazine

Cbonds Review, Magazine


Preqin

Preqin is the leading source of information for the alternative assets industry, providing data and analysis via online databases, publications and bespoke data requests. Preqin is an independent business with 70 staff serving over 4,700 customers in 72 countries.

Preqin has built a reputation in the alternative assets industry for providing the most comprehensive and extensive information possible (Private Equity, Real Estate, Infrastructure and Hedge Funds). Leading alternative assets professionals from around the world rely on Preqin’s services daily, and its data and statistics are regularly quoted by the financial press.

More information available at:  www.preqin.com


dealReporter

dealReporter is a proprietary intelligence and research tool providing unrivalled information on all aspects of M&A across the European, pan-American and Asia-Pacific markets, tailored to hedge funds, proprietary equity and credit trading desks, security lending and institutional fund managers.  Visit www.dealreporter.com


HedgeFundConferences

Hedge Fund Conferences .com, the most comprehensive source for hedge fund conference listings and hedge funds events, providing:

  • complete calendar listings of hedge fund conferences
  • easy registration, past reviews

Register with Hedge Fund Conferences.com and:

  • obtain special discounts on hedge fund conferences
  • add conferences to your “conference tracker”
  • receive email updates

With the wide assortment of conferences on our site you can plan your calendar ahead of time and choose which hedge fund conferences would be the most beneficial to you.
www.hedgefundconferences.com


Business Mir magazine

Business Mir magazine is published four times a year in Geneva. It is edited simultaneously in English and in Russian. It is addressed to Russian businessmen and investors traveling and operating in Europe and in Switzerland, as well as European businessmen and investors interested in Russia. Its aim is to be a link between Russia, Switzerland and other European countries.
Business Mir's management is at your service for any kind of collaboration, advice or suggestion and notably offers to help you in the search for a partnership or a contact.


FinRoad

FinRoad is the leading online Financial Markets Community with members in over 100 countries. Relevant connections, content and exclusive tools are at the core of our strategy for business, career and networking opportunities. Moreover, FinRoad communicates on all the relevant financial events.

Connect with the people who really matter: www.finroad.com


Leebug

Hedge Connection

 


China Hedge

CHINA HEDGE is the first-ever and only hedge fund media and research consultancy based in China to monitor global hedge fund investment and marketing in the Greater China Region.

China Hedge Weekly - It is the premier e-publication on business of hedge fund and alternative investment in China, offering unparalleled insight into China capital
market’s’ news and information.

To become our members, please register at www.chinahedge.com.cn/en/reg.asp
or send email at info@chinahedge.com.cn
Website: http://www.chinahedge.com.cn/


Russia Beyond the Headlines

Russia Beyond the Headlines is an international media project that aims at raising awareness about modern Russia and attracting business and investment to the country. Since 2007, we have published supplements focusing on Russia in print and online versions of leading world newspapers, including Daily Telegraph in the UK.