The future, by default, is either empty or dark. However, some managers strongly believe in the resilience, vitality and profitability of the companies they manage. They prefer to pleasant numbers on a bank account no less pleasant rustling papers - shares.
In addition to the purely monetary value, shares carry another significant function - they are instruments in the struggle for power. It is not uncommon for the head of a company to give the manager enough shares with a generous hand, turning him from an ordinary employee into a millionaire in the blink of an eye.
Russian Forbes, which regularly delights readers with interesting figures from the life of Russian oligarchs, has compiled another rating, this time of the richest shareholders from among the leaders.
- First of all, Forbes determined which companies boast the highest revenues this year (based on stock exchange quotes dated October 10, 2017).
- Then 85 persons were selected from the personnel of these 300 companies, who had to meet the following criteria: to be a manager or to be one in the past (but in this case, remain a current member of the board of directors); have in their hands no more than 10% of the authorized capital of the company.
- And already out of these 85 persons, twenty top managers were formed with the most valuable shares in the Russian market.
This is what the top 20 owners of the most expensive stakes in Russia look like.
It is interesting that the heads of state and semi-state enterprises are in no hurry to exchange money for shares. Of the entrepreneurs in the top 20, there are only three of them.
And only one head of a state-owned company made it to the top ten - Igor Sechin, executive director of Rosneft. However, even he is in no hurry to increase his share in his own enterprise. Apparently, the trauma from the fall in the price of his stake in 2014 still echoes with pain in his heart and wallet.
The same applies to the heads of other significant enterprises in the public sector - both Gazprom and Sberbank. Perhaps the same concerns are experienced by the general director of Kamaz and a member of the board of directors of Rostelecom, since none of them is seeking to increase the number of shares in their company.
A completely different picture in the non-state sector - its managers either have a high degree of confidence in the future of their company, or simply its owner generously pours shares in them, as, for example, did Andrey Melnichenko, who gave Dmitry Sterzhnev, number 1 rating, a 10% stake.
This is not the first time Melnichenko has dealt with Vladimir Rashevsky, CEO of SUEK. True, he handed him not 10%, but only 7.8%, which did not prevent Vladimir from taking the fifth place in the rating of the Russian holders of the most expensive stakes in 2017. And Dmitry Konov (fourth place in the rating) owes his wealth billionaire Leonid Mikhelson... What is more here - personal talents, generosity or undercover fuss - is up to the reader to decide.