Slava Rabinovich - a winding path to success
Most of the iconic world personalities who are key players of the exchange are not related to the post-Soviet space.
There is an opinion that this became possible only because the post-Soviet countries simply do not have financial education, because in the USSR business as such did not exist, not to mention the possibility of trading on the stock exchange.
However, not everything is as simple as it seems at first glance, because our compatriots also do not feed their backs, earning millions of dollars through management for themselves and their investors.
One of these managers is the now famous publicist, blogger and, to some extent, oppositionist Slava Rabinovich.
Slava Rabinovich was born in 1966 in the now renamed city of Leningrad. He grew up in an extraordinary family, which was directly connected with culture and science at the same time. His father played the violin at the Kirov Theater and was also a member of the large Leningrad Symphony Orchestra.
There is practically no information about Slava’s childhood, but the youth of this modern hero is much more interesting to study.
So after he graduated from school, the war in Afghanistan began, so in order not to become a conscript, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Communications at the Faculty of Radio Engineering. He studied there, as expected, for five years from 1983-1988 and received a specialist diploma.
However, after graduating, Slava continued to see a threat to himself and his life in the form of joining the army as a soldier and further being sent to Afghanistan. Therefore, he decides to flee the USSR, asking America for political asylum.
To do this, with only a couple of hundred dollars in his pocket, he moves to Rome. There he has to really survive, because in order to earn money in a foreign country, he had to work on a farm and sell several of his personal belongings.
A couple of months later, he managed to obtain refugee status and moved to the United States.
In the USA, Slava Rabinovich was helped to settle by a Jewish youth association, which helped him find his first job.
Just think, but the future millionaire, before reaching the top, had been selling electronics and mobile phones for a long time.
However, he is tired of this style of life, so he takes out a bank loan in the amount of 100 thousand dollars and pays for his studies at the New York Business School.
Actually, the MBA diploma becomes the very starting point from which his investment career began.
Trader career
Slava Rabinovich’s first job was Hermitage Capital Management. At that time, its founder and chief director, Bill Browder, was looking for a person who understood investing in modern Russia.
Having become acquainted with Rabinovich’s thesis, which was devoted to the topic of investing in a Russian block of shares, he was hired as an analyst.
He worked at the company for four years and became the right hand of its founder, occupying the top of the career ladder.
However, he clearly understood that at this stage his career ladder in this company was over.
Therefore, after leaving, he gets a job at Renaissance Capital, and then moves to the investment project MSM Capital Advisors, created specifically for him.
The foundation was disbanded in 2003, after which Slava Rabinovich first thought about his own path. In 2004, having two million dollars in his own funds, as well as his immediate circle, he decided to create his own hedge fund, giving it the name Diamond Age Capital Advisors.
The fund quite quickly attracted a large number of investors from Russia, many of whom are on the Forbes list.
At first, the company was investing only in the Russian economy, but in order to hedge its risks, Slava began buying shares of foreign companies, thus creating an investment portfolio that included shares of companies from 35 countries.
Today, in order to become an investor, a company must bring in at least 100 thousand dollars, and under the management of this eminent trader there is a sum of 230 million dollars.