Premier event for professionals managing Russian and CIS private wealth both locally and internationally

Preparations are moving ahead at full steam for this leading event!

Latest speaker confirmations include well-known wealth management/family office industry professionals:

• Svetlana Le Gall, Chief Investment Officer, Fleming Family & Partners Asset Management
• Dmitri Klenov, Partner, UFG Wealth Management
• Katerina Ukhankova, Partner, Kalido Private Office
• Olga Zaitseva, Managing Director and Senior Partner, Talan City Group Ltd

The conference will offer:

Presentations by 45+ leading professionals from wealth management companies, family offices and private banks with exceptional experience of managing Russian and CIS wealth, both locally and internationally

A thoroughly-researched programme packed with innovative features, to address the vital issues that private bankers, wealth managers and family offices are facing today

FEBRUARY FEATURED PRESENTATIONS:

Vera Loseva, Partner, Head of Corporate Finance, Third Rome

Shareholders' conflicts

"In the process of doing business sometimes conflicts between enterprises’ shareholders arise. In our experience this is usually because one shareholder is playing a more active role in management, and thus realising his plans for the business, which differ from those of the other shareholders. The principle types of conflict are differences of opinion regarding growth and financing, unhappiness at the business’s current results and dividends, demands to sell the business of parts of it, and unhappiness at the level of transparency. At this conference you will hear how investment companies can help shareholders to resolve such conflicts.”

Tatiana Baskina, General Director, BigFish

In search of talent
“Working with family offices is a very specific task, and requires first and foremost a heightened level of confidentiality and a great deal of trust in relations between employees and partners. In the past, when entrepreneurs set up a family office they used to mainly invite their relatives to work for them, or people who they were close to and trusted. Nowadays, for several reasons, it is necessary to attract market professionals to work in a family office. This natural and unavoidable trend ties in closely with the change in mentality in Russian corporate business at the end of the 1990s."

Alexander Smyslov, Director, Bordeaux + Fund Ltd.

Investing in wine
As the Financial Times put it recently “….with concerns over rising inflation, investors will be drawn to physical assets such as wine” (June 2011). The fine wine market is now worth $4-5 billion annually, from a figure of $1 billion in 2004. Reflecting this growth, the Liv-ex 100 Index has seen a compound annual growth rate of around 15% since its launch. (Liv-ex.com). You can hear more about investing in wine by joining session 7 on "Alternative Assets" during this conference on 19 April 2012