12 сентября 2015 г. CFA Russia board members gathered for the annual strategy session
In September 2015 the CFA Association Russia held its third annual assessment of the Association’s strategy for the coming year. The Association’s board of directors is elected each year in February and holds monthly meetings where thirteen active Association members, called to serve for one year, carry out the business of the board of directors and examine the tasks, issues and events taking place in the given month. The annual strategic meeting, more precisely the yearly assessment of the Association’s strategy, is held on a Saturday for the entire day in a Moscow company’s office, this year at Sberbank CIB. Each director heading a special committee of the Association talks about what the Association has done along these lines and what it plans to do in the coming year.
The strategy assessment was led this year by Neil Withers, President of the CFA Association Russia. At the opening of the meeting, the members of the board of directors evaluated how closely the mission of the CFA Association Russia corresponds to the changing situation in the financial markets in Russia and globally. All agreed that the Association’s mission has not lost its relevance, indeed, it has become even more in-demand for investment experts in our region. The Association’s mission is to promote the highest ethical standards in Russia’s investment industry and encourage professional development by providing education, career, and professional networking support to CFA charterholders and candidates. The Association’s mission is also in step with the main goal of the CFA Institute, namely to lead the investment profession globally by promoting the highest standards of ethics, education, and professional excellence for the ultimate benefit of society.
Vladimir Tutkevich, Executive Director of CFA Association Russia, spoke of how the Association has succeeded in increasing the membership value for its members in the last year. In 2015 the Association has managed to draw over 900 participants to its professional and entertaining networking meetings, which take place regularly nearly once a week. Eighteen of the most important public events of the Association took place in the offices of major players in the financial market in Moscow and all Russia, as well as in the capital’s upscale restaurants, clubs, and on one occasion even on a Moscow golf course.
An important part of the Association’s work is education, not only for members of the Association but also for CFA Candidates and students at institutes of higher learning in economics and finance. Dmitry Ryabykh, a member of the board of directors and chair of the Association’s committee for education, offered his views on the strategy for the Association’s educational programs in the coming year. The educational work of the Association will proceed along two main lines, with one being continuing education for professionals, and the other working with universities and directly with students at schools of economics and finance. In addition to its popular courses on financial modelling and business valuation, the Association is also planning to offer courses for project financing, venture investment, as well as financial analysis in the investment field. The Association’s work with students includes the CFA Institute Research Challenge, an investment-reporting competition popular worldwide, which will be held this year in Russia already for the sixth time, as well as public events and meetings with investors and experts in the halls of Moscow’s largest institutions of higher learning.
Natalya Kolupayeva, the head of the Association’s committee for media relations, gave her views on how the Association can increase its visibility in Russia’s media space. The committee for media relations is gathering a team of employees from Moscow’s leading financial institutions and CFA candidates and members who, with the Association’s help, are ready to select the most interesting CFA Institute information products and to help adapt them for Russian media and for the CFA Association’s PR materials. The CFA Association’s network consists of no less than 10,000 people, who are directly interested in a career in finance and investment in our region. Providing them with necessary and useful information is an important professional duty.
Peter Kadish, also director of the Association’s board of directors and head of the committee for GIPS standards, talked about how the Association has managed to hold meetings with leading asset managers in Moscow and across Russia to inform them of how their colleagues around the world are implementing GIPS standards. Firms that use GIPS standards gain the ability to much more effectively communicate with their clients regarding their services.
The board of directors also examined several fundamentally new initiatives that will be implemented by volunteers, directors, and CFA Association committee members, as well as the employees of the CFA Association’s office, which has been in operation since 2010. The next strategy session of the CFA Association Russia will be held in 2016.
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