IFD Kapital Group, formerly known as IFD Capital Financial Group, is a Russian financial holding company founded in 2003 from LUKoil non-oil assets, based in Moscow. With assets exceeding US$14.7 billion and total shareholders’ funds of 7.5 billion US$ as of 2012, it ranked among the top-100 largest Russian companies by volume of proceeds, according to ratings of Expert-400[1] and finance500.com. As of 2013, it had a triple A rating with a Russian rating agency.[2]
History
The origin of IFD Kapital Group are with the Russian oil giant LUKoil. In the beginning of 2003, LUKoil split off 3 billion US$ of non-oil or non-core assets, which started IFD Kapital Group: LUKoil's insurance business and pension fund LUKoil-Garant. LUKoil's deputy chief executive Leonid Fedun became IFD Kapital's first chair. In April 2003, IFD Kapital Group agreed to buy brokerage LUKoil-Reserve-Invest, and the sale was completed in January 2004.[3] In the spring of 2003, IFD Kapital Group also bought JSC Capital Investment Group, which had started within LUKOIL Reserve-Invest about 7 years earlier.[4]