OREANDA-NEWS. RusRating has assigned a credit rating to ZAO EG Capital Partners (Moscow). The rating is "AA" on the national scale and "BBB" on the international scale, in both cases with a stable outlook.

The rating is based on the Company's substantial own funds, good corporate governance, the upward trend in external funding and strong returns.

Constraining factors include the high concentration of funds under management (most originate with two major clients) plus the moderate quality and relatively low liquidity of the Company's investments.

About the Company

ZAO EG Capital Partners is a private-sector Russian company set up in 1994. Andrei Vladimirovich Godunov has been its beneficiary owner since mid-2013. A licensed securities market participant, it is authorised to manage securities, investment funds, mutual funds and non-state pension funds. Currently it manages the assets of four pension funds, five mutual funds plus various corporate and retail clients.

As of mid-2014 the Company had R38.2bn in assets under management, making it one of the top twenty players in Russia on that measure. More than 60% of this is pension savings and pension reserves  managed on behalf of OAO NPF Telekom-Soyuz and OAO NPF StalFond [trs. SteelFund Non-State Pension Fund OJSC]. Individual retail and corporate clients account for a substantial portion of client funding, while investment funds make up less than 5%. Pension fund assets have been invested in Russian bonds that have top-level MICEX listings but which at the same time are illiquid.