Alfa-Bank’s Chief Strategist Christopher Weafer Named Best Russian Equity Market Strategist
29 Jun 2007

Alfa-Bank’s Chief Strategist Christopher Weafer was recognized as the top equity strategist on the Russian market by Thomson Extel’s 2007 Focus Russia Survey, carried out by Thomson Financial and Interfax. Alfa-Bank’s Equity Research Team also placed among the top three brokerages for Equity Market Strategy.

This marks the first time that Thomson Extel rated Russian investment bank analysts, asset managers and brokers in their own category. Thomson previously rated Russian market analysts as part of the larger emerging markets group. These ratings are based on voting by global financial market players, which took place from March 19 to May 13, 2007, spanning 152 companies and investors in 12 countries. The majority were from Western Europe and North America. Voting was open to everyone, but votes were weighted by the size of the company’s assets under management.

«The Russian equity market is one of the most dynamically developing in Europe, and today investment managers set a high value on the quality of surveys and advisory. We see this honorary award as the acknowledgement of our analysts’ high repute and professionalism. It is even more pleasing that this recognition comes on behalf of firsthand market participants, many of them being our clients,» said Ronald Smith, Head of Equity Research at Alfa-Bank.

Alfa-Bank Russia

Alfa-Banking Group includes Alfa-Bank Russia which is today one of the largest privately owned banks in Russia. It also includes Alfa-Bank Ukraine, one of the top-ten largest banks in Ukraine.  Alfa-Banking Group also comprises  banks in the Netherlands, in Belarus and in Kazakhstan as well as presence in Cyprus, the United States and the United Kingdom. The Group offers a wide range of products and operates in all sectors of the financial market, including corporate and retail lending, deposits, payment and account services, foreign exchange operations, cash handling services, custody services, investment banking, trade finance and other ancillary services to corporate and retail customers.
 
Alfa-Bank Russia, founded in 1990, has developed rapidly to become one of Russia's largest privately owned banks. It provides a full range of banking services — corporate banking, retail banking, investment banking, asset management and trade finance. In 2010, Alfa-Bank Russia had 364 branches over nine time zones in Russia, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, also had presence in the United States and Cyprus.

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