Exchange Traded Instruments
What is an Exchange Traded Instrument (ETI)?
How ETIs are issued and collateralised, how they differ from ETFs, AMCs and funds, and how to buy one through the bank or broker you already use.
Actively Managed Certificates
Actively Managed Certificates, explained
The wrapper behind many specialist strategies: where it beats a fund, where it doesn't, and how issuer risk is contained through collateralisation.
Due Diligence
How to evaluate a systematic strategy before you invest
Backtests, personal track records, performance fees, governance: what the numbers actually mean, and the seven questions that cut through them.
Due Diligence
How to read a PRIIPs KID before you invest
What the 1–7 risk indicator really measures, why performance scenarios are not forecasts, and how to read the costs table — section by section.
Funds
What is an Alternative Investment Fund (AIF)?
How AIFs differ from UCITS, what reserved and Notified AIFs are, who can invest, and which documents to read before subscribing.
Private Markets
What is private credit?
Direct lending, real estate finance, distressed credit and credit-linked notes: where the returns come from and what the risks are.
Structuring
AIF, AMC or ETI: which wrapper fits your strategy
The six questions that decide the wrapper, a dimension-by-dimension comparison, and the failure mode behind each choice.
Structuring
Launching below EUR 20m: the routes that actually work
No regulation sets a EUR 20m threshold. What binds is the fixed cost stack — and four routes open up below it.
Structuring
Malta: AIFM setup, notification and distribution
Three decisions, not one: how the manager is authorised, whether the fund is licensed or notified, and what makes distribution possible.