03.07.2014 - Russian state fund attracts western investors for Moscow Exchange deal
Several investors, including those from Europe and the US, have partnered with a Russian state-owned fund to invest in the Moscow stock exchange, despite rising tensions with the west over Russia's annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea earlier this year. The Russian Direct Investment Fund, a $10 billion vehicle set up in 2011 to help attract foreign investment into the country, said on Wednesday that it has teamed up with a consortium of unnamed institutional investors from the UK, Germany, US, China, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and Qatar to buy part of the Moscow Exchange being sold by the Central Bank of Russia...............................................Full Article: Source
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