OREANDA-NEWS. January 11, 2012. Troika Dialog, one of the leading full-service investment houses in the CIS, today announces the appointment of Ovanes Oganisian as Strategist. In his new position, Ovanes will work closely with Chief Strategist Chris Weafer to provide insightful analysis for Troika Dialog’s growing client base on what promises to be another fascinating period for Russian and CIS equities.

Ovanes comes to Troika Dialog with over 15 years of financial market experience, most recently completing a decade at Renaissance Capital as an equity strategist. Prior to that he was involved in a number of successful start-up businesses in the financial and technology fields, having originally started his career as an equity analyst for both international and domestic houses.

At Renaissance Capital, Ovanes was responsible for building the domestic client franchise and its quantitative models, and this will also be one of his key responsibilities at Troika Dialog. Throughout his time at Renaissance, his team regularly traded places with Troika Dialog’s own strategists for the top slots in the benchmark Extel and Institutional Investor surveys.

Ovanes Oganisian commented, “I am delighted to join the Troika Dialog team at such an exciting time for the franchise. I have watched with interest how many well-respected market figures have joined the company since the Sberbank deal was announced and I’m glad to continue my own long career analysing local investment opportunity under the auspices of the region’s largest universal banking player. I’m particularly excited to have the opportunity to work with Chris Weafer, whose strategic analysis I have always admired.”