#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. More than two hundred senior students learned how to handle finances wisely at the FinZOZh in Bobrovy Log: Invest Wisely forum. All speeches were broadcast online. The event was organized for the second time in Krasnoyarsk by Nornickel in partnership with Sberbank.
“We believe that improving financial literacy is not only a task for the Central Bank or government agencies, but also for all stock market participants. The Nornickel company is a fairly significant and large issuer that has taken on the educational function so that young people are not afraid of the financial sector and do not make mistakes when entering this field for the first time”, commented Mikhail Borovikov, the Investment Community department head at Nornickel.
The speaker noted that what started as a one-time event attracted attention and received very good reviews last year. This year, there has been more interaction and dialogue with the audience.
Analysts, investor relations specialists, financial institutions and large businesses’ representatives told the audience how to form their first securities portfolio and what is the best way to make money in 2024.
This year, the forum program included an introduction to digital financial assets (DFA) – a new but rapidly developing investment tool. As Maxim Trofimov, CEO of Digital Assets, said, the Russian DFA market is currently estimated at about 100 billion rubles, but in the next two to three years it can reach several trillion rubles:
“In very simple terms, the DFA is the right to demand something, but in digital form. DFA simplifies the relationship between the issuer and the investor, which leads to a reduction in the instrument cost, and this ensures higher returns. But not all private investors understand how to work with it yet. Our mission today is to explain in common language what digital financial assets are”.
The forum paid special attention to the topic of cyber literacy.
According to the Bank of Russia’s Krasnoyarsk branch’s economic department head, Alexander Surmachev, in the past year alone, fraudsters managed to steal 15,8 billion rubles from the population, and this amount is growing. At the same time, all the population categories, including young people, become victims.
At the end of the forum, HR director, the Sberbank’s Siberian Bank’s People and Culture Block head Elena Rudneva and the Yenisey United Bank’s vice president and its board’s deputy chairman Dmitry Bukreyev told students about the profession of a financier and the most in-demand skills for working in the financial market.
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Text: Anzhelika Stepanova, Photo: Nornickel’s press service
