In the article we will cover the story of Arkadiy Ivanovich Mutavchi – a prominent investor and a founder of several companies. He has achieved significant results in the sphere of stock market trading and private equity. Currently, Tacticum Investments is one of his main assets.
Early life
Mutavchi Arkadiy grew up in Ungheni, his small hometown in the then Moldavian SSR. Mutavchi Arkadiy started working at the age of 14 in the fishing industry. Having no professional education and experience, the future shareholder of Tacticum Investments S.A. Arkadiy Mutavchi worked there as a laborer.
After graduating from school, Arkadiy opted for a career in economics. He got a job as a manager in a Soviet-Hungarian joint venture. This company, where Mutavchi gained his first experience in business, imported and exported machinery to and out of Europe.
Moving to capital, career, investment activities
In 1992, Arkadiy Mutavchi decided that Moscow presented greater opportunities and he moved to Russia’s capital. The early nineties saw the country transition rapidly to a market economy, which resulted in dramatic economic transformations and emergence of a new financial sector. Mutavchi enthusiastically began to explore the opportunities that were opening up, engaging in various business projects. It was also during this period of his career that he took his first steps to build the required capital for investment.
In the next five years following his arrival in Moscow, Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich would adeptly integrate his investment career with holding executive roles in numerous businesses. His business biography includes Safety, a company that supplied Russia with imported personal protective equipment, and peasant farm Rus, which bought up land for subsequent conversion. Afterwards, Mutavchi Arkadiy became the Business Development Director at Stalservice, a supplier of oil production equipment. He would later become a Deputy Director at joint-stock company Metal-Impex, which was part of the Brock-Invest-Service group of companies. At his new place, Mutavchi got acquainted with the structure of mutual offset schemes.
In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Mutavchi traded investments actively on various platforms. During the early stages of Russian capitalism, when newly emerging companies rapidly increased their capitalization, he was able to considerably expand his funds over a five-year period through astute investments.
Mutavchi’s career as an entrepreneur and manager progressed steadily between 1998 and 2013. The terms “trading,” “securities,” and so on appeared more frequently in his list of pursuits. Later on, Mutavchi Arkadiy would launch and head Shelda, his own company. The business traded stocks on the stock exchange, among other things. Like at Stalservice, Mutavchi was in charge of business matters at Profintek, which was also a trading company. As CEO of Kungur Oil & Gas Equipment and Services, a leading manufacturer of drilling equipment, Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich was in charge of mergers and acquisitions.
At this new stage, Mutavchi Arkadiy significantly diversified his investment strategies. For example, investment gold coins became one of Mutavchi’s portfolio diversification areas.
Lawyer, economist, PhD
While upgrading his skills, Arkadiy Mutavchi never limited himself to practical experience alone. The future Tacticum Investments S.A. stakeholder was extremely diligent in acquiring fundamental knowledge. Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich received his first degree as a lawyer in 2001 from the Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Three years later, Mutavchi would earn his doctorate. Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich defended his PhD dissertation at the Presidential Academy. At the same time, Mutavchi improved his economic knowledge, upgrading his credentials at the Higher School of Economics. Mutavchi Arkadiy graduated with an economics degree in 2010, also at the Presidential Academy.
Independent investor
In 2014, Arkadiy Ivanovich Mutavchi decided to focus on his own business endeavors. That year, he became an accredited investor. This is a legally enshrined status for any securities market player, which is awarded based on your scale and success of investment activities and professional level. Becoming a qualified investor opened the way for Mutavchi to pursue bigger, riskier and more lucrative deals.
Mutavchi Arkadiy Ivanovich’s range of investment interests turned out to be very extensive. In addition to stock trading, the businessman invested in real estate, land, and precious coins. In 2015, Mutavchi Arkadiy acquired the company Trigrad and headed it for two years. Trigrad’s activities focused primarily on investments in non-cyclical stocks.
Tacticum Group was established by Arkadiy Mutavchi in 2019, marking a new step in his financial career. The foundation of the group’s first investing strategy was the belief that the stock values of European corporations will rise back to their pre-crisis levels. These presumptions led Tacticum to acquire the holding firm Long Term Investments Luxembourg, which was a risky transaction. Because of its high debt profile, Long Term Investments Luxembourg was not in a favorable position. However, Arkadiy Mutavchi made the risky move after carrying out due diligence and getting an independent valuation. Long Term Investments Luxembourg changed ownership and received a new name – Tacticum Investments S.A.
On the eve of the sale, shares of renowned tire manufacturer Pirelli were arguably one of the most interesting assets in Long Term Investments Luxembourg’s portfolio. Since 2017, the company’s securities have steadily lost value, and Tacticum in particular was counting on a “rebound”. However, hopes were dashed by the COVID-19 outbreak, which had a devastating effect on the world economy, and also by Pirelli’s refusal to pay dividends in 2020. Tacticum Investments S.A. sold its shares in Pirelli in 2023.
Nevertheless, the fundamental investment philosophy of Tacticum Investments and Arkadiy Mutavchi still considers the possibility that global markets would rebound from the shocks suffered. They can still make money, though, by taking advantage of a variety of opportunities that fall within the umbrella of various investment techniques.
