The Organizing Committee of CHIVAS SPEAR’S Russia Wealth Management Awards 2011 is pleased to announce the start of the Voting stage of the Awards.

From October 10 until October 28, the Organizing Committee is collecting votes of professionals from private banking, wealth management and related industries in order to determine the nominee short list. The voters are asked to select the best, second and third nominee in each category. The nominees selected are then respectively awarded three, two and one point. As a result of this process, after the approval of the Awards’ Independent Consultant the official short list will be formed. At the final stage, the Judging Panel of the Awards will determine winners among short-listed candidates. The members of the Judging Panel will be announced in the end of October.

The winners of CHIVAS SPEAR’S Russia Wealth Management Awards 2011 will be unveiled on November 17 at the Et Cetera theatre in Moscow.

CHIVAS SPEAR’S Russia Wealth Management Awards is organized by tradition and analogy with the award ceremony annually held in London by SPEAR’S UK. Organizers of the 2011 Awards in Russia are CHIVAS whisky, PBWM.ru portal and SPEAR’S Russia magazine. Official Partner – Land Rover, Independent Consultant – PricewaterhouseCoopers.

CHIVAS is one of the most prestigious blended whiskies in the world. SPEAR’S Russia is the Russian version of one of the most trustworthy and influential European (London, UK) magazines for the world’s richest, PBWM.ru is Russia’s first specialized private banking and wealth management online portal. Founder – PBWM Media, Editor-in-Chief – Alexander Gafin, General Manager – Dmitry Gafin.

Creative and commercial management of the project is provided by MEDIACRAT.