OREANDA-NEWS. National Rating Agency has withdrawn its reliability rating on Gazinvest Investment Company JSC due to the contract expiry and the company’s decision to stop participating in the rating process. The company has been assigned an exit rating of ‘A’. A reliability rating of ‘A’ assigned to it on Mar. 20, 2009, was reaffirmed every subsequent year.

Gazinvest Investment Company has been operating in the financial market since 1995 as a division of Volgopromgaz financial and production group, which also includes a number of businesses focused on the industrial, financial, construction and trade sectors of Samara Oblast’s economy. The company’s main shareholders are ASKOMED Insurance Company CJSC, United Insurance Company CJSC, Volgopromgaz Group Management Company LLC, Togliattiorgsintez LLC and other enterprises. The company operates in the Volga Federal District, where it ranks among the largest market players.

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