CFA Association Russia's members and candidates met online for the first event in the new year to discuss a hot topic - job hunting in the upcoming year, and new realities to be considered when applying for work.

On Friday, December 16, CFA Association Russia members and candidates met at Novotel for a Christmas networking event.

CFA Association Russia invited Artur Aleksanyan, CFA, Head of the risk management department in a bank, to continue our pipeline of events for CFA candidates dedicated to latest updates in the CFA curriculum. Artur is one of the most prominent CFA exams tutor and worldwide case challenge champion.

On November 29, CFA Association Russia held an online event with Alexey Debelov, CFA. We discussed peculiarities of asset management in the UAE.

At the end of November, CFA Association Russia organized offline training on financial modeling of investment projects in Excel (level 2). Our tutor, Alina Kosunova, CFA, shared her experience in financial modeling and demonstrated how to check models for errors and include complex calculations, as well as correctly determine the source data and assumptions.

On Monday November 21st, CFA Association Russia held an in-person networking event in Novotel Moscow Kievskaya. Emil Vassenine, CIPM, CIM, joined us to give a presentation on the GIPS Standards and the CIPM certificate, as well as shared his experience of working in the biggest GIPS-oriented companies in USA and Canada.

CFA Association Russia continued its pipeline of events dedicated to blockchain technologies. On Tuesday November 15 we invited Egor Krivosheya, head of the Blockchain and Fintech Laboratory at the SKOLKOVO School of Management, to talk about how blockchain is used in business and finance.

On Tuesday October 18, CFA Association Russia held an online networking session with our members and candidates. We invited Anastasia Glebova to talk about career opportunities and tips for finding the right job under current circumstances.

On Monday October 17, CFA Association Russia invited one of the most prominent CFA exams tutors, Artur Aleksanyan, CFA. We discussed recent changes to the CFA curriculum and shared experiences of taking the exam under current conditions.

This fall, CFA Association Russia launched a new online training with our tutor Renat Asadov. This course is designed to give students an overview of the Excel skills that are needed for successful completion of the two offline trainings.

On September 22, CFA Association Russia members met with Sberbank representatives to discuss results and future plans of the volunteer project "Financial Literacy Trips to Orphanages".

On September 15 we met online to discuss the most urgent issues on how the CFA curriculum and exams administration has changed recently, and how it affects candidates based in Russia.

This Tuesday, September 6th, members of CFA Association Russia and representatives of New Economic School gathered for the first in-person event in the new financial year to discuss possible strategies that can be used on stock market nowadays.

We discussed Astana and Dubai as two of the most attractive jurisdictions for international investors in EMEA region. On August 4, CFA Society Kazakhstan and CFA Association Russia invited four lawyers, two from each jurisdiction, to discuss the most important differences that investors should know about.

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Year 2022 brought several dramatic news to family offices around the world. This mostly applies to the territories of former Soviet Union, but the geography is stretching far broader across the CEE region and the whole of EMEA. This requires totally new approaches to cross-border asset management available to family office clients.

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On June 4-5, CFA Association Russia organized offline training on financial modeling of investment projects in Excel (level 2). Our tutor, Alina Kosunova, CFA, shared her experience in financial modeling and demonstrated how to check models for errors and include complex calculations, as well as correctly determine the source data and assumptions.

On May 28 - 29, CFA Association Russia held offline training on financial modeling in Excel (level 1). During the training, students learned how to create simple financial models from scratch, as well as build more complex dynamic models and execute an express verification.

CFA Association Russia continued its pipeline of events related to the topic of blockchain technologies. We again invited Daniel Wolfe, Independent Board Member in a number of Russian Public Joint Stock Companies, as well as Simoleon Long-Term Value Fund founder.