Florian Fenner joined UFG Asset Management as Managing Partner in July 2002. He is an experienced investment manager who has directed investments in Russian securities for over 16 years. Prior to joining UFG, from 2000 to 2002, he was Head of the Unifund's Moscow office with responsibility for its Russia portfolio.

From 1996, Mr. Fenner served as Deputy Head of Research at Brunswick Brokerage, one of Russia's leading investment banks and, in 1997, he became a Russian equity Portfolio Manager for Brunswick Capital Management. Before joining Brunswick Brokerage, he worked as an investment banker for Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst Co. in their Frankfurt office. Mr. Fenner is a charted financial analyst and holds a degree in banking from Industrie-und Handelskammer in Frankfurt-am-Main (1992-1994).

Oksana Kuchura founded UFG Wealth Management in 2005, and is responsible for all client operations, with a particular focus on the development and execution of investment strategies and asset management.

Ms. Kuchura began her career in finance in 1995 in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan) with a focus on trade operations with international investment companies at Regent European Securities and Global Kazkommerts Securities. In 2001, Ms. Kuchura moved to Russia and Troika Dialog Management Company, where she was responsible for international development and marketing. In 2002, she assumed the position of Director of Sales with UFG Asset Management, and was directly responsible for raising investment for the company's offshore funds as well as working with foreign institutional investors. During her tenure with UFG Asset Management, the company's assets under management topped $1 billion.

In 2005, Ms. Kuchura identified and responded to the growing need for astute and professional structuring and management of private client assets by founding a new core business, which today is UFG Wealth Management.

Ms. Kuchura is a graduate of the Kazakh University of International Relations and World Languages.

Mr. Mikhail Devyatov joined the UFG Wealth Management team as Head of Real Estate in 2018.

Prior to joining UFG Wealth Management, he worked in Vnesheconombank Group (Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs), where he was responsible for attracting investors and financing development projects, including the area of real estate.

From 2010 to 2015, Mr. Devyatov was the managing director and director for the acquisition of property in a large investment fund and development company, where he was responsible for implementing investment strategies in the area of commercial real estate.

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Professional interests:

• Real estate investment strategies and transactions;
• Financing and management of both private and commercial real estate;
• Providing consultation on the investment potential of real estate in a wide variety of countries;
• Consultations on structuring projects.

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Digit/Trade:

• 2019. The largest transaction in the Luxembourg market, purchase of 5 office buildings Euronet Parc (100 million USD);
• 2011. The largest transaction in the Russian market, purchase of a portfolio of the shopping centre (150M USD);
• Raised and refinanced bank financing for real estate and infrastructure projects in the Russian Federation and Europe in the amount of over USD 1 billion;
• Top 100 Real Estate Professionals (CRE, 2019).

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Education:

• MBA degree, Georgetown University;
• Master of Science, Johns Hopkins University;
• Bachelor of Science, University of Maryland.

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Nikolay Vargasov joined the team of UFG Wealth Management in 2014. Before that, he was employed with one of the largest Russian investment banks.

Mr. Vargasov is responsible for providing complex legal support of transactions in the international market, including M&A dealings, direct and bank financing. Mr. Vargasov provides advice on family law matters, structuring of personal and business assets, in particular through the establishment of funds and trusts in different European and offshore jurisdictions.

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Education

• The International Law Department of Nizhny Novgorod Lobachevsky State University;
• A LL.M degree by Lyon Catholic University (France).

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Aleksey Potapov is Head of Investment Department at UFG Wealth Management. He joined the UFG WM team in December 2014.

Prior to that, he was a senior portfolio manager in a private bank where he managed a securities portfolio. In 2008-2011, he worked at the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange where he took part in support and development of the MICEX index family and supporting analytical indicators.

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Professional interests

• Strategy of the company's global liquid funds;
• Investment analysis.

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Education

• Master's degree at the Higher School of Economics in Financial Markets;
• FFMS qualification certificates series 1.0 and 2.0;
• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) and CIPM (Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement) certificates.

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Evgeny Pundrovsky joined the UFG Wealth Management team in 2014.

After graduation, he worked in the corporate finance department of the logistics company Unifeeder, and then in the accounting and control department of a brokerage firm in St. Petersburg. Prior to joining UFG, he worked as a bond analyst at Cbonds, a financial markets news agency.

Professional interests

• Assessment of investment opportunities in the stock and bond market;
• Macroeconomic analysis.

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Education

• Diploma with honors from the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance;
• CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) certificate.

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