Who Manages Finance in Russia "Finance & Investments in Russia" was first released in November 2003. Sergey Novikov acquaints us with the book. "We have found the niche". As it is known there is no information vacuum in Finance field. Why have you decided to create a directory on the field? Release of finance and investments directory is a logical development of our series. Year by year we release directories on leading infrastructural branches: transport, fuel and energy, metallurgical, timber industry complexes, food industry, machinery, and finally, finance. There is a huge amount of reference media on banks or insurance companies in book market today. But there was none on a financial system. Not any more as "Finance & Investments in Russia" were released. The book contains information on all basic elements of financial system, and that is not only banks, insurance or auditor companies as it's widely thought. So, we are branch information integrator again. Then what do you understand as "financial system"? Financial system is similar to blood system which gives life and connects all elements of an economic organism. Therefore everyone who manages financial streams on the part of state (at federal and regional levels) who supports their infrastructure, who distributes financial streams in departmental and corporate sectors are included in the directory. It is necessary to add the information on associations, representations of the foreign financial organizations, consulting and leasing companies to the list. There is separate sections on education, science, mass-media, Russian and foreign exhibitions. You can find detailed information on the directory' contents on www.maximov.com. Corporate finance and the managing companies What are departments' and corporations' sections peculiarity? There is nowhere else systematized information presented in "Departmental finance" and "Corporate finance" sections can be found. You can find surnames, names, patronymics, addresses, phones, faxes, e-mail addresses and other data on heads of financial directions in these sections. There is an information on heads of economy and finance departments or the deputy ministers responsible for the financial block in "Departmental finance" section., in corporations section information on vice-presidents or to general directors deputies responsible for finance is presented in the book. Why do "investment" appear in directory title? Special sections on the investment companies and funds, registrars and depositories are presented in the directory. Besides, edition contains information on heads of corporations and companies responsible for the investment and securities. And are there any managing companies of pension funds in the directory? The decision of what companies will manage pension fund money was recently made. When this information has been promulgated, the directory content was ready so we had to create new sub item with detailed contact information on 55 managing companies, Ministry of Finance trend winners. Will information on representatives of adjacent kinds of the business, for example manufacturers of bank equipment, system integrators and telecommunication companies be presented in the directory? According to the series concept information on manufacturers and suppliers of the equipment and services in finance sphere is not presented in the directory. But they always have an opportunity to be presented in other directories of a series - on machinery, to communication and information, transport, etc. About the Ministry of Finance and Association of regional banks. Who helped you to create the directory? We cooperated with representatives of Ministry of Finance, Association of the Russian Banks and Associations of Regional banks management. Our experts participated in all conferences devoted to Russian finance in Russia and abroad during the year. Who can be interested in purchasing the new edition? First of all it is bankers, insurers, financial directors of corporations, government officials from financial sphere. It is necessary to add financial sector equipment, goods and services suppliers to this list. And, at last, it is our constant subscribers who buy all our directories. Where it is possible to get the directory? It is possible to buy books at our office, or in the largest Moscow book shops - "Biblio-Globe", "Moscow Book house on New Arbat". Visit our E-shop where you can buy any directories. Published in "The Advertising Industry" №22, 2003г.