The Chinese central government portal site, China.org.cn, managed by the State Council Information Office, published an article quoting a few comments by Andrei Akopian, Managing partner of Caderus Capital, on the current status of the investment cooperation between Russia and China. You can read the whole article (available in German) at China.org.cn website by clicking here.

A leading Russian financial events website Finparty.ru has published an article on the recent expert discussion organised by ARFI (Investor Relations Managers' Association) in Bloomberg's Moscow office on 15 July 2014. The discussion focused on financial markets in South East Asia.

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.