Where do members of the Forbes list invest? The investments of members of the Forbes list are not much different from the investments of other rich people - they are a combination of conservative and risky assets. The standard move - buying the S&P500 index in 2009 (it was around 1000 points) - resulted in a doubling of income. And such a primitive investment as high-quality colored diamonds gave an average of 150% growth over 10 years (blue stones showed a record 360%).

What do former Yukos shareholders do? In the prestigious village of Zhukovka near the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway there is an empty cottage complex “Apple Garden”. It is unknown who now owns seven mansions hidden behind a high fence, a reception house with a gym, a swimming pool and a restaurant, and 22 hectares of land. Everything was built in the late 1990s with money from the Yukos company for its shareholders and management.

To achieve much, you must lose everything. Some readers of the magazine believe that there is no need to envy the characters on the Forbes list. This is a worthy moral position, but until recently it was not supported by rational calculation. But times are changing, and many people have a new understanding of current processes... The theory of stopping economic growth has become a common place in modern economic analysis (see Robert I. Gordon. Is US Economic growth over?

Businessmen and scientists on the right attitude towards innovation. Many in Russia are awaiting news about a slowdown in the growth of shale oil production in the United States with a special feeling - the bubble is finally collapsing. An economy based on natural resource rent fosters a conservative attitude towards new products, and the hackneyed rhetoric of officials about “getting off the oil needle” adds skepticism.

East News photo Russian billionaires have responded to the call for deoffshorization. Back in 2002, speaking at the congress of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, President Vladimir Putin suggested that businessmen consider whether the time had come to return money from offshore companies to Russia, since funds transferred abroad could supposedly be frozen by local authorities. “You will be tired of swallowing dust, running around the courts,” he warned then.

Is it easy for a startup to get a million dollars from a Russian billionaire? “We shook hands literally in one evening,” recalls Vladimir Bershtein, founder of Dashboard Systems. “Then, of course, there were checks: financial, legal, technological, and accounting...” Bershtein’s company promotes its own BoardMaps management software system. In 2013, Buran Venture Capital, a fund created with the participation of billionaire Boris Mints (No.

Businessmen have created an Investors Club, which helps them lobby their interests in Moscow. On August 6, 2013, a decorous feast was taking place in the banquet hall of an expensive restaurant on Brestskaya Street. We celebrated the upcoming holiday - Builder's Day. In the center sat the guest of honor, head of the Moscow Construction Complex Marat Khusnullin. He was surrounded by “colleagues” - large metropolitan developers and rentiers, more than 40 people in total.

Exports of Russian oil to non-CIS countries in January-April 2015 amounted to 72.46 million tons (4.43 million barrels per day) - 6.7% higher than the same figure in 2014, Interfax reports with reference to data from the State Enterprise "CDU" TEK". Over the 4 months of this year, a total of 71.19 million tons of crude oil (of which 64.2 million tons are Russian resources) were exported through the Transneft oil pipeline system to non-CIS countries.

The Zaeltsovsky District Court of Novosibirsk on Saturday arrested for 10 days Artem Loskutov, the ideologist and permanent organizer of the Monstration art event, which was held unauthorized in Novosibirsk on Friday. this to RIA Novosti .

Ideas, Quotes, and Research to Consider 1 Virtual reserves Commodity items with the lowest capacity utilization (up to 50%) in the Russian economy, according to Rosstat data for 2013, % Many believe that the collapse in investment and imports of investment-grade equipment occurring in the Russian economy is not so terrible.

Facebook, Google and Microsoft are worth keeping an eye on. There are smart people there with big money. The technological revolution is likely already beginning. It's like social media in 2006. They were already a revolution, but most had not yet seen it, but some understood and invested in Facebook. Nowadays everyone is talking about “big data”, “Internet of things”, 3D printers, robots and “wearable technologies”, but there is no clear vision of where the next explosion will be.

Globalization forces states to mobilize to defend their power. “Dollars, if there are a lot of them, replace both intelligence and knowledge, the mediocre or mediocre appears outstanding, the dishonest and corrupt - a role model, the speculator and embezzler turns from an object for the criminal police into a subject reigning in society, its pillar. Millions of dollars give...

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed changes to the law “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets,” the Kremlin website reported Saturday. Now “if the deadline for submitting a notification about holding a public event coincides with non-working holidays, the notification may be submitted on the last working day preceding the non-working holidays.” The federal law was adopted by the State Duma on April 21 and approved by the Federation Council on April 29.

Nepalese authorities have ruled out the possibility of finding living people under the rubble a week after the devastating earthquake. AFP . Lakshmi Prasad Dhakal, spokesman for Nepal's Ministry of Internal Affairs, told According to him, search and rescue efforts continue, but after a week the chance of finding survivors is minimal.

Massive electric cars and self-driving taxis are a reality in the next five to ten years. When it comes to the future of transportation, the thing that will change our lives the most in the next decade is the spread of electric vehicles and self-driving technologies. It is clear that until a full-fledged charging infrastructure is created, the market for “pure” electric vehicles, without internal combustion engines, will not develop at the same pace as the segment of plug-in hybrids.