About the Company

Financial Bridge Asset Management (FB) was founded in 1999 and today it is one of the leading operators at Russian stock market. During its history Financial Bridge Asset Management developed its activity together with Russian financial market. Today FB is a high professional level company and it has reputation of a reliable partner which always executes its commitments. Financial Bridge Asset Management brand is an acknowledged guarantor of high quality of offered services at Russian stock market as well as high professional skills of its stuff. NAUFOR rating agency assigned A reliability rank to Financial Bridge Asset Management (high reliability).

At present Financial Bridge Asset Management has got well developed mechanisms of settlement of transactions at all Russian market places and at the off-exchange market. The company is one the greatest in Russia on the number of customers who gave their funds to asset management (or TRUST in otherwords).

The company performs its own dealer operations and renders brokerage services to customers. FB has got its own depositary which accounts rights on securities of its customers. High level of back-office automatisation, depositary and financial department activities provides for the high rate of transaction registration and excludes any errors. Besides accomplishing and maintenance of operations on the purchase and sale of securities at the exchange and off-exchange markets, Financial Bridge Asset Management plays an active role in REPO market and is experienced in the organization of ruble bond issue. Analytical department of the company provides for analytical support of the company's activities at the market. The development of this department is among strategic priorities of the company.

So Financial Bridge Asset Management gives to its customers the whole spectrum of services at the stock market — from brokerage services and analytical support through assets management and debt instruments issue. The company has got permanent licenses for brokerage activities (177-06529-10000, data of issue 11/04/2003), dealers' activities (177-06531-010000, data of issue 11/04/2003), depositary activities (177-06737-000100, data of issue 11/04/2003) and securities management (177-07065-001000, data of issue 09/10/2003).

The company is a member of the National Stock Market Association (NFA), member of Russian Trading System (RTS), Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) and St.-Petersburg Stock Exchange.

Financial Bridge Asset Management firmly occupies top-30 position among Russian investment companies, 11^th position among the leading operators at Russian bill market.

Results of Financial Bridge Asset Management in 2005:

Total turnover, bln. RUR	58,69
Exchange turnover, bln. RUR	44,01
Off-Exchange turnover, bln. RUR	14,68
Volume of brokerage operations, bln. RUR	50,31
Volume of securities management operations, bln. RUR	0,73
Volume of dealers' operations, bln. RUR	7,65
Own capital, mln, RUR	151,10
Compiled assets, mln. RUR	156,63
Number of customers	492
Including on agreements for securities management	159