Slava Rabinovich is an economic and political analyst, a specialist in the field of finance. In recent years, he has shown himself as an independent publicist and blogger.
Childhood and youth
The future famous financier was born in 1966 in the city on the Neva in the family of a musician and philologist teacher. The mother, who received a university education, dreamed that the child would follow in her footsteps, but the surname prevented him from entering a prestigious university. In 1988, with a diploma from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, Slava decided to immigrate from the USSR.
Rabinovich dreamed of making a career in America, but at first he had to live for several months in Italy in order to see the long-awaited permission to enter the United States with refugee status. On weekdays, the young man worked on farm plantations, and on weekends he sold goods popular abroad in the markets. Leaving his homeland, he took out two suitcases with cameras, binoculars, badges. Soon, his initial $ 100 capital increased several times.
He earned his first money in New York selling mobile phones. Working at the center of the association convinced him of the need for additional education. Rabinovich completed a two-year study at the university with a master's degree. A year later, he was returned to his old passport and handed a new one - an American one. So Vyacheslav received dual citizenship.
Financier
Slava's coursework was devoted to the analysis of the shares of Russian companies. This determined the direction of his further activities. Rabinovich was hired by Bill Browder, founder of Hermitage Capital Management. He was offered the position of a senior trader at the Moscow branch of the company. Eight years later, the emigrant saw Russia again. Having mastered analytics, he began to carry out transactions himself. He quickly gained the trust of his boss and got a job as a co-manager of the fund. Realizing that at this stage this is the limit of his career growth in the company, Slava resigned.
After briefly working for Renaissance Capital, he created MCM Capital Advisors Ltd and managed the fund's investments for about three years.
Slava dreamed of starting his own business and becoming rich. He was able to realize himself by opening his own management company and fund. So, in 2004, Diamond Age Capital Advisors appeared, and the next year the Diamond Age Russia Fund started working. Receiving commissions and a percentage of income, the company advised on investing finance, and the fund, raising or lowering, regulated the price of various assets of companies around the world. Taking into account the peculiarities of the domestic economy, investments were made, first of all, in the extractive industry, then in rapidly developing industries: real estate, construction, transport. The fund acquired shares in Russian and Western companies in 35 countries operating in the CIS.
The performance of the hedge fund until 2014 was strong and stable. The volume exceeded $ 105 million, out of 80 investors, most of them were eminent businessmen from Russia and America. However, in recent years, information has appeared that Rabinovich's brainchild is going through hard times. Its profitability dropped to negative numbers, and this led to a churn of clients.
Blogger
Recently, Slava Rabinovich has shown himself as a publicist and blogger. Calling himself “Russia's number one financier,” he appears on the Internet and in print media as an economic and political analyst, often making rather harsh statements. Basically, his independent publications are placed by Russian, Ukrainian and Western publications and radio stations known for their opposition views: Bloomberg, Forbes, Radio Svoboda, Ekonomicheskie Izvestia, Obozrevatel, Gordon, Ekho Moskvy, "Rain".
