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Slava Rabinovich

Slava Rabinovich was a Russian and American investment financier who also worked as an economic and political analyst, internet journalist and columnist.

1966 to 2022Investing in Russian securitiesLeading Diamond Age Capital AdvisorsEconomic and political commentary

Born: 6 May 1966, Saint Petersburg
Died: 5 July 2022, Israel
Occupation: economist, financier, journalist, blogger
Education: Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications

Slava Rabinovich was born in 1966 in Saint Petersburg

Slava Rabinovich was born on May 6, 1966, in Leningrad. His father, Yevgeny Rabinovich, played viola in the Leningrad Radio Committee's Grand Symphony Orchestra and later in the Kirov Theatre Orchestra. His mother taught Russian.

From 1983 to 1988 he studied radio engineering at the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute of Communications. He left the USSR for Rome to seek refugee status, worked on farms in Italy in 1989, and reached New York in November 1989. He earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he studied from 1994 to 1996.

From 1996 to 2000 he worked at Hermitage Capital Management under William Browder, first as senior trader in Moscow and later as co-manager of the Hermitage Fund. He then worked at Renaissance Capital and ran MCM Capital Advisors. From 2004 he was CEO of Diamond Age Capital Advisors, which managed $230 million in assets in 2013.

From 2007 he became known as an economic and political analyst, independent columnist and blogger. Media outlets in Russian and English, including Bloomberg, Forbes and Radio Liberty, interviewed him and ran his commentary.

On September 22, 2021, a car hit him in Rosh Pina, and he had leg surgery at Ziv Medical Center in Safed. He died on July 5, 2022.