OREANDA-NEWS. On 15 April 2008 was announced, that Finance magazine’s Third Annual Award Ceremony was held in Surikov Hall, Moscow, to celebrate the achievements of financial-sector organizations and personnel in 2007.

AntantaPioglobal Investment Group won the award for “Breakthrough of the Year in the Banking Sector”.

“It gives me great pleasure to have the business community acknowledge our work in this way,” said AntantaPioglobal CEO Eugene Kogan. “2007 was indeed a particularly successful year for us. Our range of services expanded after our Group was joined by Pioglobal Asset Management, which meant we were able to offer investors the full spectrum of financial instruments within a single group. We opened five new offices throughout Russia’s regions, and also founded the management company Pioglobal Ukraine, administering three funds which immediately found a large number of clients. We devised an integrated sales system under the AntantaPioglobal brand. We became the first market maker trading in fund units on MICEX. Last year 5 new mutual funds administered by Pioglobal Asset Management were registered. Also in 2007, investment funds managed by foreign Management Company Meriden IFM, S.A., for which we act as consultant, posted impressive results, and in some cases the returns outstripped the RTS Index by a wide margin. And yet, as far as our achievements were concerned, all this was just the tip of the iceberg. Our growth potential is far from exhausted: we have fresh ideas for further expansion, and the strength required to make these ideas a reality.”

Other award categories at Finance magazine’s annual ceremony included: the best mutual funds, banks, insurance, management, investment, leasing, telecommunications and IT companies, private pension funds, and mass media. Awards were presented not only to companies and personnel, but also to the best financiers and lawyers.