Meeting participants discussed ways of increasing investment made by the National Prosperity Fund.
The President asked the government cabinet to prepare a package of regulations defining the mechanism for investment by 1 October 2008.
The National Prosperity Fund is designed to ensure co-financing of voluntary pension savings of citizens and to top up Russia’s Pension Fund.
The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Naryshkin, First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, Presidential Aide Arkady Dvorkovich, Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina, Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko, Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Ignatyev and Chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriyev.