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BFA Investment Company

BFA Closed Joint Stock Company has been operating at the Russian stock market since 1993 providing a wide range of services for private and corporate clients.

www.bfa.ru

Among the services provided by the company are:

Corporate financing involves arranging and underwriting debt securities; organization of mergers and acquisitions, financial advisory services, consortium loans; structured financial products, IPO organization and private placement of shares
Sales & trading – increasing the liquidity of securities; investment protection against risks and losses though the use of derivatives, market risks hedging, the use of the “repo” tool, investment advice , acting in support of corporate actions and procedures.
Brokerage services provide an access to trading on the leading Russian stock exchanges, facilitate off-exchange transactions and marginal lending as well as services for professional participants of the securities market
Analytics
Depository and specialized depositary services

In 2011, the National Rating Agency confirmed the BFA IC individual reliability rating of AA level- (high reliability, the third level).
According to RBC agency, in the ranking of investment companies BFA ranks 13 by asset management trading volume, and 7th place in bond trades in the 1st half of 2011.
In the ranking of investment companies prepared by the National Rating Agency for 1 half of 2011, IC BFA ranks 20 by equity and aggregate turnover, and 17 by brokerage turnover.

BFA Asset Management

BFA AM was incorporated in 2002 to provide asset management services.

www.am.bfa.ru

Here are the major business activities of the company:

asset management for mutual funds
asset management for private and corporate clients on the basis of individual investment strategies
asset management for endowment funds
asset management for private pension funds
asset management for insurance companies
asset management for self-regulatory organizations’ compensation funds

BFA AM individual rating at the A+ level (high reliability, the first level) with positive forecast is confirmed by the National Rating Agency in 2011.
In Investfunds rating BFA AM ranks 23 by net asset value of open-ended and interval mutual funds by the end of the 3rd quarter of 2011 and 11 by amount of pension assets transferred by PFRF at the end of 2nd quarter of 2011.
According to Expert Rating Agency BFA AM ranks 8 by volume of pension assets transferred by the PFRF in the ranking of the largest asset management companies at the end of the 2nd quarter 2011.