Ricom-Trust: Really tough Broker

• Ricom Trust Investment Company Launches Division of Trading on Overseas Markets
• Ricom Trust to come up with initiatives aimed at liberalizing transactions with securities for foreign brokers in Russia and for Russian brokers on Chinese stock exchanges
• Summary of 2010 and vision for 2011
• Ricom Trust Group and Sharelink come to a business cooperation agreement.

Ricom-Trust Investment company is one of the first Russian brokers. We are working in the Russian stock market since 1994. Now Ricom is a group of companies with large spectrum of financial services and 13 branches through the country.

Our services are:

• Brokerage,
• Asset Management,
• Custody,
• Investment and Tax Consulting.

Ricom-Trust is in Top-15 in number of active clients and in Top-30 in volume of stocks traded on MICEX among 700 investment companies and banks in Russia as of January 2011.

The Company has 300 legal entities among its clients and counterparties. The total amount of our clients' investment portfolios is about USD 130 mn.

Our business principles are:

• Creation of most favorable conditions for investors;
• Individual approach, attention and concern towards each client;
• Transparency in transactions.

The Company's main priority is its clients, their interests and wishes, which we seek to foresee and fully satisfy. We continue to develop new services that allow our clients to operate on the securities markets more comfortably, easily and efficiently.

During 2010, we have offered a whole range of new services:

• New trading and research terminal Nostra.
• New managing strategy, founded on fundamental and system analysis compilation.
• Company's clients crediting.
• New research products - short "flash-note" issues based on determined events.
• A number of decisions for insurance companies and real estate funds.

The strategic goal of the Ricom Financial Group is to increase its market share. For this purpose we strive to raise our economic efficiency by increasing the Company's net worth through growth of net profits, maintaining its financial stability, diversification of its business and increase of trading volumes.