RUSSIAN PRIVATE CLIENT 2012: wealth management; international investments & acquisitions; running a family office; assets structuring and protection; tax planning, and more

On the behalf of Adam Smith Conferences we would like to thank all the speakers, sponsors, partners and delegates for making this event a great success!

We are glad to have had such a distinguished line-up of attendees that included a significant number of FAMILY OFFICES and PRIVATE INVESTORS.

Among conference highlights were presentations by such speakers as:

Leonid Morozov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, Ural FD Bank

Sandy Loder, Chief Executive, A H Loder Advisors

Carolyn Steppler, Partner, Private Client Services and Anton Ionov, Head of CIS Personal Tax Services of Ernst & Young

Valery Zaikin, Private Client Director, RBC Wealth Management

CLIENT PERSPECTIVE: Evgeny Chichvarkin, Founder of Hedonism Wines and Euroset

CLIENT PERSPECTIVE: Olga Vysokova, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, Bank Centrinvest - Second generation business owner

Alasdair McLaren, Director, Saffery Champness, Guernsey

Joanna Vickery, Senior Director, Head of Russian Department, Sotheby’s

Simon Bruce, Partner, Farrer & Co

and others!

The topical pre-conference focus day “PRIVATE CLIENT: INVESTING IN INTERNATIONAL PROPERTY MARKETS” took place on the 2nd of October 2012.

Highlights included:

• KEYNOTE presentation by a leading authority on global prime property markets Liam Bailey, Head of Residential Research at Knight Frank. He is also one of the key authors of "THE WEALTH REPORT 2012" published yearly by Knight Frank and Citi Private Bank
  
• Discussion of real estate investment strategies for Russian/CIS HNWIs
• PRACTICAL SURGERY of taxation and legal issues of acquiring real estate

«A comprehensive overview of subjects that are topical to individuals from Russia and CIS»
Peter Unwin, Director, Stonehage Multi Family Office