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Significantly frolicking under the management of large developers, the housing and utilities sector, just like some other business, requires clear financial and resource planning. A qualitative forecast that takes into account relevant data not only retrospective data on sales volumes of services, but also the size of utility payments, prices for housing and communal services, etc., allows effective planning of business management activities. This paper is devoted to the problem of forecasting cash receipts for a management company. Based on the analysis of publications devoted to the issues of forecasting and planning income for management companies, it is revealed that the list is limited, indicating the narrow focus of the problem and its certain complexity. The study proposes a variant algorithm for forecasting the income of a management company engaged in integrated services in the domain of housing and communal services and providing living conditions for residents of apartment buildings, which is based on the method of machine learning.

The article presents a comparative analysis of the main methods of housing and communal services management in an apartment building in Russia: direct management of the owners of premises, management of a homeowners’ association or a housing cooperative, management of a management organization. The purpose of the work is to identify the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of housing and communal services management, depending on the various characteristics of apartment buildings and the characteristics of the owners of premises, which allows improving the methodological tools of organizational and managerial aspects of the activities of economic entities in the housing and communal services market. The author has compiled in the table a description of alternative ways of managing an apartment building in accordance with the Housing Code of the Russian Federation. The author gives an assessment of the positive and negative sides of each of the listed methods. The author came to the conclusion that the owners of premises in an apartment building, when choosing a management method, should take into account the satisfaction of consumers of housing and communal services as much as possible, should comply with laws, sanitary and technical rules for the maintenance of an apartment building, and should also minimize the costs of managing an apartment building. The results of the comparative analysis will allow the owners of premises and local self-government bodies to make a more rational choice of the method of managing the MCD. Also, this study makes it possible to highlight problems in the issues of control of management companies and further improve the regulatory and legal norms governing activities in the field of management of MCD. The results obtained by the author will be useful for drawing up various government programs that stimulate the processes of digitalization of service activities of management companies in the provision of housing and communal services.

The problematic situation that has developed in the housing and communal sector in Ukraine is well known. It is largely related to the conflict of goals and interests of interested parties. Thus, the owners of residential premises are concerned about the reduction of the quality of housing and communal services against the growth of tariffs. Resource supplying and contracting (servicing) organizations are dissatisfied with untimely and incomplete payment for the provided resources and services, while the state is worried about the lower availability of housing and utility services for most of the population. In their turn, the management companies (MCs) believe that their interests are infringed on both by the state and local self-government bodies. Dissatisfaction is experienced by managing organizations, which fulfill contractual obligations to resource suppliers, contractors, and owners of apartments, but, nevertheless, are a constant object of criticism. In modern conditions, the state cannot remove itself from the activities to reform the sphere of housing and communal services. Its policy should be focused on the realization of economic interests of all economic entities of the housing and utilities sector through the creation of mutually beneficial economic conditions at all levels of interaction between them, namely in the provision, distribution, exchange, and consumption of all types of housing and utility services to meet the ever-increasing demands of the population.

This article considers topical issues related to the conduct of comparative assessment of managing companies in the Russian Federation, in particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of rating of managing companies in the sphere of provision of housing and communal services. During the study, the authors summarized and systematized existing methods of compiling ratings of management companies in Russia, identified «bottlenecks» that do not allow to obtain an objective assessment of the activities of management companies. The author’s methodology of comparative assessment of activities of managing companies in the sphere of provision of housing and communal services is proposed, based on selection and systematization of key evaluation criteria reflecting such aspects of activity as information openness of the managing organization to the population, quality of work with clients, financial condition of the managing company, additional criteria. The work describes the peculiarities of grouping of estimated parameters within each category and methods of their calculation. The results of testing of the methodology are given on the example of the management companies of Omsk

The results of the research of the dynamics and structure of investing of pension savings funds by private managers for the period from 2004 to 2017 are presented. The dynamics of the market value of investment portfolios of private management companies, the structure of their investments in various types of assets has been analyzed, the dynamics of changes in the structure of assets for 2004-2017 has been estimated. The nature of the investment strategy of investing the funds of pension savings of private capital has been revealed, as well as the main factors that have influenced the structure of their main investments in various assets. The key tendencies of the development of the mandatory pension insurance system are determined in the course of exercising the functions of trust management of private pension funds by individuals.

Retracted articleSelection and diversification of assets in the portfolio of non-state pension fund in the face of the current crisis state of the domestic economy is extremely difficult, which requires constant interaction with the management company and it necessitates a careful choice.