IFD Kapital Group

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. 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. In June 2004 IFD Kapital group bought LUKoil's majority stake in the mid-sized bank Petrocommerce, Open joint-stock company (OJSC), which had been founded in 1992, and it sold it in 2013 to Otkritie Financial Corp.

By 2004, IDF Kapital Group was owned by a closed-end fund called Strategic Investments, with unknown owners, managed by 'Management-Center', and Igor Sherkunov as chairman of the board of directors, a long term LUKoil insurance company man and member of LUKoil's board of directors.

In May 2006, the two main owners of IFD Kapital were reported to be Lukoil executives: CEO Vagit Alekperov and deputy chief executive Leonid Fedun.

Services

IFD Kapital Group operates in investment banking and brokerage services, focusing on pension reserves and insurance reserves. The company manages non-state pension funds, closed-end real estate mutual funds, and various insurance products, including mandatory medical insurance. It manages 36 non-governmental pension funds (NPFs), including such major Russian funds as Blagosotoyanie a mandatory pension insurance in 80 regions of Russia, serving 2.9 million customers, assets of 6.5 billion euros, Gazfond, LUKOIL Garant, Norilsk Nickel, Sberbank, the government-owned Electric Power Industry fund, Promagrofond, KIT Finance Investment Bank, and others.

Asset management business

The holding company 'Group Kapital Asset Management' CJSC was the second largest Russian asset management firm with over 230 billion rubles of assets in management, as of September 30, 2012 per company website. It comprises three companies, namely Kapital Asset Management Company LLC, Kapital Asset Management joint stock company (JSC) and Management Company Kapital Mutual Funds LLC. The holding is headed by Sergei Mikhailov, a member of the Board of Directors with numerous connections. The holding totaled assets of RUR 132.7 billion as of March 31, 2013.

Crimea-related sanctions

In June 2017, the company was sanctioned by the United States for taking ownership of the Riviera Sunrise hotel complex in Crimea.