Irina Eltsova

UFG Asset Management (UFG AM) is an independent Russian asset management firm which was founded in 1996 by Boris Fedorov and Charles Ryan, the founding partners of Russian investment bank United Financial Group. In 2003, UFG separated UFG AM from UFG's investment banking activities.^ Based in Moscow, the firm provides asset management and investment advisory services for institutional and private investors wishing to invest in the capital markets of the Russian Federation and the CIS. Clients include national pension funds, banks, insurance companies and non-governmental pension funds.^ UFG AM has a strategic partnership with Deutsche Bank to develop their Russian onshore mutual fund business under the Deutsche UFG Capital Management brand.