The Organizing Committee of CHIVAS SPEAR’S Russia Wealth Management Awards 2011 is pleased to announce the nominee short list determined by votes of professionals from private banking, wealth management and related industries. This year 207 experts participated in the opinion poll.

The nominees in the Best Russian Private Bank category are Alfa Bank (A-Club), VTB24 Private Banking and M2M Private Bank. The leaders in the similar category yet for foreign banks in Russia are Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and UBS Wealth Management. Herculis Partners, Renaissance Advisors and Verno Capital compete for The Best Start of the Year award. The complete list of organizations and individuals who made it to the short list this year is available at http://awards2011.pbwm.ru/, the official web portal of the Awards.

The best of the best in each nomination will be selected by the members of this year’s Judging Panel: David Iakobachvili, Alexander Svetakov, Irina Rapoport, Andrey Rappoport, Christian Kremer and Feodor Sheberstov. The Chairman of the Judging Panel is Alexander Gafin, SPEAR’S Russia Editor-in-Chief.

The winners of CHIVAS SPEAR’S Russia Wealth Management Awards 2011 will be unveiled on 17 November at the Et Cetera theatre in Moscow. The ceremony will be hosted by Mikhail Shatz, Tatiana Lazareva and Alexander Pushnoy.

Chivas Regal is the Title Partner of the Awards. Official Partner – Land Rover, Independent Consultant – PricewaterhouseCoopers, Official TV Channel – TV Rain, General Radio Partner – Business FM, General Media Partner – BFM.ru.

PBWM.ru is a specialized private banking and wealth management web portal. SPEAR’S Russia is the Russian version of the most trustworthy and influential European (London, UK) magazine for the world’s richest audience. Founder – PBWM Media, Editor-in-Chief – Alexander Gafin, General Manager – Dmitry Gafin.

Management of the Awards is provided by MEDIACRAT.