The Conference will provide an opportunity to exchange opinions on the financial crisis and ways to overcome it. Participants will assess the crisis' impact on various market segments (currency, stock, debt, future, commodity, real property, development) as well as on various financial businesses' status (including pension funds, securities investment, investment banking etc.)

Representatives of government authorities will inform the audience on the anticrisis legislation developments aimed at the advancements of the financial market's legal and regulatory environment, and on the taken and planned measures for the market support.

• collective investments market professionals: management companies, investment funds, private pension funds, specialised depositaries, registrars, auditors, investment fund appraisers;
• banks and insurance companies;
• investors, including professional investors: manufacturing companies CEOs, private investors, foreign investors;
• representatives of public and municipal authorities, research, analytical and educational institutions.

Co-Chairpersons

P. Kiryukhov
Director General, MFC Training Center

D. Alexandrov
President, National League of Management Companies

A. Savatyughin
The deputy minister, Financial Policy Dept, Ministry of Finance

S. Kharlamov
Deputy Head, Federal Service for Financial Markets

Executive Committee

Ivan Kapitan
phone/fax: +7 (495) 926-1795

Alexey Lavrik
phone/fax: +7 (495) 921-2273*110

• sector's results and the prospects of further development;
• participation of management companies in national and other governmental and/or regional projects;
• current trends in the regulatory framework development and the development of self-regulation;
• changes in the legal framework, inclufing the Investment Funds Act;
• taxation in the collective investments sector;
• work of specialised depositaries and registrars and their relationship with the management companies;
• development of real estate unit funds, mortgage and direct investments funds;
• new services rendered by management companies: credits on the security of units, management of the insurance companies' insurance reserves etc.;
• dealing in units at the regulated market;
• pension institutions and investment of pension savings assets;
• PR and marketing of management companies;
• analysis of investors' behaviour and preferences;
• modern trends in the collective investments market development in the leading economies of the world (U.S., Great Britain, Germany, Japan)
• non-resident investors at the Russian collective investments market.

Conference guest speakers include Senators, MPs, high-rank officials of the Presidential Administration, the Ministry of Econiomic Development and Trade, the Ministry of Finance, the Federal Service for Financial Markets, the Central Bank, the Agency for Mortgage Housing, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Association of Russian Banks, the Association of Regional Banks, the Association of Managers, the Russian Association of Builders, the Russian Institute of Directors, the National Association of Non-Government Pension Funds, the National League of Management Companies, as well as industry professionals representing management companies and specialized depositories.

The Participation Fee for non-residents is EUR 800.-

The fee includes Conference materials, coffee-breaks, lunches, and the Closing Reception.

Moscow World Trade Centre, 12, Krasnopresnenskaya naberezhnaya, Entrance 4, Moscow (Underground: ULITSA 1905 GODA or KRASNOPRESNENSKAYA)

How to get there:

Please choose the most convenient for you way of registration:

• By telephone: +7 (495) 921-2273, 964-0480, 964-3190
• By fax: +7(495) 921-2273, 964-0480, 964-3190 (print out the Registration Form)
• By mail: 30, Buzheninova street, Moscow, 107023, Russia (print out the Registration Form)
• By e-mail: konf@educenter.ru
• Online: Register

Upon receipt of your Registration Form, we will immediately contact you with further instructions. Registration deadline is 17 November, 2008.

Should you need any additional information, please feel free to contact us at:

Telephone/Fax +7 (495) 921-2273, 964-0480, 964-3190
e-mail: konf@educenter.ru

Registration: Ekaterina Stepanova, Tel. +7 (495) 921-2273, 964-3190 (ext. 130)
Sponsorship: Alexey Lavrik Tel. +7 (495) 921-2273 (ext. 110)
Press-Centre Natalya Zakharova, Tel. +7 (495) 921-2273 (ext. 108), Natalya Medvedeva, Tel. +7 (495) 953-7437
Conference Papers: Alexey Lavrik, Tel. +7 (495) 921-2273 (ext. 110)

Hotel booking in the "Mezhdunarodnaya" Hotel (Moscow International Trade Centre) and other hotels of Moscow is available upon request.

Please call us at +7 (495) 921-2273, 964-0480, 964-3190 or indicate that hotel booking is needed while registering.