Comment by Vladimir Potapov, CEO of VTB Capital Investment Management, for Bloomberg

Plans to grow from Russia, CIS asset manager into EM asset manager in next 5 yrs: Vladimir Potapov, CEO of VTB Capital Investment Management, which manages about 190b rubles in assets, said in interview June 11.

• BRIC strategy, global dividend return strategy are key foreign products
• Russia, CIS fixed income management “most successful” strategy this year; Cayman-structured fund, brings dollar- based returns, manages credit and as much as 50% of local- currency risks
• Plans to start UCITS fund regulated by European Commission with same strategy before end of year
• Looking at ETFs, “can’t say there has been huge demand from the market for such funds so far”