OREANDA-NEWS. Expert RA Rating Agency (RAEX) confirmed reliability rating A++, which means "Exceptionally high (the highest) level of reliability", of joint-stock company non-state pension fund VTB Pension Fund. The rating outlook is "stable".

In the course of ranking of the Fund, the Agency analysts highlighted conservative strategy of investing pension assets and placing equity capital, high amount of an average account under compulsory pension insurance scheme and high level of risk management organization as positive factors.

Low level of capital adequacy, low level of diversification of pension assets by management companies and potentially high share of terminated mandatory pension insurance contracts following the results of transition campaign - 2013 were named as the rating restraining factors.

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