The Investor Who’s Sticking With Russia

Russian stocks crashed after Vladimir Putin waged war on Ukraine. That’s when David Amaryan started buying.
Investors were dumping anything Russian, and the hedge-fund manager was happy to take the other side of the trade. He snapped up shares of energy giants Rosneft , Lukoil and Gazprom . He bought banks—including Russia’s largest lender, Sberbank —and some local retailers and mining companies.