Andrei Akopian, Managing director of Caderus Capital, was invited as a member of the jury of the Start-up Weekend organised during the first weekend of February 2014 by Unusual Concepts, with the financial support form the Life banking group (project website: unusual-concepts.ru/startup).

During the competition, generators of business ideas had to first attract enthusiastic supporters to create implementation teams. Then they have to go through all major implementation issues and to prove existing or potential demand for their new product or service. At the end of the event they had to present their business idea and the first prototype created during the weekend.

A total of 6 projects were presented, and the jury selected the winning project and team to get financial support from the Life banking group.



Yury Popov becomes Managing director of Caderus Capital.

For many years, Yury was head of the legal and compliance department of Renaissance Capital, a leading Russian investment bank. Yury was responsible for the legal structuring of cross-border M&A transactions in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and also of numerous restructuring, merger and other corporate transactions of major Russian, Ukrainian and Kazakh companies.

Andrei Anikin becomes Managing partner of Caderus Capital. Andrei is one of the most successful Russian financial market professionals.

Andrei made a substantial personal contribution to the success of Renaissance Capital, one of the most dynamic Russian investment banks, where Andrei participated in the creation and further development of the Russian institutional and individual client base, thus having generated a tangible share of the total income of the bank.

From the country that have been actively and productively absorbing international direct investment over the past three decades, China has become the world's largest investor.

During the summer of 2013, Caderus conducted a research on the Chinese asset management industry. Caderus contacted many QDII funds and insurance fund managers, trust managers, hedge-fund managers, as well as many other participants of the Chinese asset management industry.