| A base
in Switzerland
Switzerland remains the home to many of the world’s
most successful asset managers and is the legal base for Alpinvesta
Asset Management SA. It remains one of the world’s most stable,
highly regulated and successful international financial centres,
providing Alpinvesta with immediate access to both investment managers
and in-depth research.
Working
with partners to benefit investors
Alpinvesta works directly with professional intermediaries
and institutions, and does not handle investor funds or manage bespoke
client accounts. We concentrate on the design, construction and
marketing of the Alpinvesta range of structured products, which
are targeted at retail and institutional investors seeking ‘absolute
returns’.
Alpinvesta utilises a wide number of relationships it has with investment
bankers, fund management professionals, tax practioners and lawyers
in order to seek out potential and rewarding structures that will
benefit the international client looking for up-to-date solutions.
Principal Protection
Alpinvesta is currently working with BNP Paribas
(rated AA by Standard & Poor’s) to design and build structured
notes. BNP Paribas, who were voted Equity Derivatives House of the
Year 2004, issue and provide principal protection for a range of
Alpinvesta Asset Management SA European Medium Term Notes (EMTNs).
The performance of the Alpinvesta products is focused on ‘absolute
returns’ and uses ‘alternative investments’ like
hedge funds, commodities and property. Alpinvesta carries out extensive
research with BNP Paribas in order to select the specific underlying
asset managers to be used within the current range of Alpinvesta
products. |
Potential to enchance returns
The use of alternative investments like hedge funds,
commodities and property gives clients the potential to significantly
enhance the returns over traditional assets within a balanced portfolio,
supported by capital guarantees provided by BNP Paribas. The underlying
asset managers are continuously reviewed and are chosen not only
for their experience and track record, but also for underlying transparency
and liquidity: essential for comfort and institutional due diligence.
Investment considerations
As a responsible asset manager, we feel it is only
right and proper to point out that structured products and loan
notes will suit experienced investors with a requisite knowledge
and experience associated with investment in hedge funds. All financial
transactions are exposed to the risk of variation and interest rates,
exchange rates, securities, commodities or indices and the value
of the notes and associated underlying funds can fall as well as
rise. However, Alpinvesta believe that the combination of diversity
in the assets chosen, combined with the BNP Paribas protection strategy
offered, gives investors a foundation on which to build a profitable
investment portfolio. |
