Asset Man­age­ment

Asset Management

The Company

AIF Alter­na­tiv Invest Finance AG is one of the first inde­pen­dent asset man­age­ment com­pa­nies in Liecht­en­stein.
Since 2006, we have been offer­ing a wide range of invest­ment strate­gies and solu­tions to pri­vate, insti­tu­tion­al and cor­po­rate clients world­wide.

We believe that, above all, sta­tis­ti­cal­ly rig­or­ous and robust mar­ket analy­sis reli­ably iden­ti­fies con­tin­u­ous sources of alpha that exist due to inef­fi­cien­cies in the behav­ior of mar­ket par­tic­i­pants.
We take a pre­dom­i­nant­ly quan­ti­ta­tive approach to all aspects of trad­ing.
Strat­e­gy selec­tion, port­fo­lio con­struc­tion, exe­cu­tion and risk con­trol are usu­al­ly accom­pa­nied by algo­rith­mic and sys­tem­at­ic process­es.

Our goal is to achieve a con­sis­tent, absolute return with an uncor­re­lat­ed or neg­a­tive­ly cor­re­lat­ed per­for­mance result com­pared to var­i­ous U.S. indices such as the S&P 500 index or the U.S. Gov­ern­ment Bond index, as well as hedge fund indices.
Our trad­ing pro­grams offer clear diver­si­fi­ca­tion ben­e­fits.

Investors who added our trad­ing strate­gies to their port­fo­lios ben­e­fit­ed from above-aver­age earn­ings in the medi­um to long term, while reduc­ing risk of their over­all port­fo­lio (pos­i­tive cor­re­la­tion effects).

We offer UCITS funds that have an excel­lent long-term track record, dai­ly liq­uid­i­ty, and low to no cor­re­la­tion with oth­er mar­ket indices.
Bro­ker­age ser­vices for fixed-income and struc­tured prod­ucts com­plete the invest­ment offer­ing.

We invest glob­al­ly and pri­mar­i­ly take a long/short approach, based on tech­ni­cal­ly select­ed invest­ments – we don’t chase mar­ket nov­el­ties as a mat­ter of prin­ci­ple.
Our invest­ment strate­gies are based on long-term track records.
Clients under­stand our process­es and port­fo­lios because they are trans­par­ent.
Sys­tem­at­ic analy­sis mod­els are, among oth­er things, the basis of our invest­ment per­spec­tive.

Using our PAM funds as an exam­ple, risk con­trol is both proac­tive and reac­tive.
Proac­tive risk con­trols include restric­tions on lever­age and posi­tion scal­ing, aligned with prod­uct volatil­i­ty and return tar­gets.

Our typ­i­cal expo­sure is about 1/4 of the max­i­mum expo­sure, and some­times our strate­gies can be com­plete­ly out of the mar­ket.
Proac­tive risk con­trol con­tin­ues to be pro­vid­ed through strat­e­gy diver­si­fi­ca­tion.
Reac­tive risk con­trols involve a stop loss on posi­tions.

Estab­lished finan­cial cen­tres such as New York, Lon­don and Sin­ga­pore are increas­ing­ly fac­ing com­pe­ti­tion from inno­v­a­tive, tax-friend­ly and well-reg­u­lat­ed economies around the globe.
We expect this trend to con­tin­ue as long as tech­no­log­i­cal advances con­tin­ue to decen­tral­ize the finan­cial indus­try.

Due to its recog­nised reg­u­la­to­ry envi­ron­ment, an attrac­tive tax sys­tem and its geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion, Liecht­en­stein is rapid­ly ris­ing in the finan­cial world.
There are no income tax­es on assets under man­age­ment at the fund lev­el.
Funds are not sub­ject to VAT, and funds can even be con­sid­ered tax-exempt par­ties .
Final­ly, there are no with­hold­ing tax­es to be paid on div­i­dend dis­tri­b­u­tions.
In addi­tion, the cor­po­rate income tax in Liecht­en­stein is only 12.5% — sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er than in many neigh­bor­ing coun­tries.

The offi­cial lan­guage is Ger­man, the offi­cial cur­ren­cy is the Swiss franc, and the coun­try has deep eco­nom­ic ties to Switzer­land and the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area.
As a neigh­bour of Switzer­land, Liecht­en­stein has long been asso­ci­at­ed with the Swiss bank­ing sec­tor and the tal­ent­ed employ­ees who bring it to life.
For investors, this means that fund man­agers based in Liecht­en­stein are like­ly to be among the best and bright­est tal­ents in the finan­cial indus­try.
At AIF Alter­na­tiv Invest Finance AG, we are proud of our roots in Liecht­en­stein.

Liecht­en­stein is one of only 12 coun­tries in the world to receive the high­est cred­it rat­ing of AAA from Stan­dard & Poor’s.
This cred­it rat­ing is large­ly due to the fact that Liecht­en­stein has absolute­ly no pub­lic debt .
Since 2008, pub­lic debt has risen glob­al­ly and it is almost impos­si­ble to find anoth­er devel­oped econ­o­my that has absolute­ly no debt on its pub­lic bal­ance sheet.
In addi­tion to this eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty, there is a polit­i­cal envi­ron­ment that pro­vides a high degree of legal cer­tain­ty for new and exist­ing com­pa­nies.
As a result, retail investors do not have to wor­ry about regime change or polit­i­cal upheaval when choos­ing an inde­pen­dent asset man­ag­er in Liecht­en­stein.

Pre­sent­ing the Liecht­en­stein finan­cial cen­tre

We believe that, above all, sta­tis­ti­cal­ly rig­or­ous and robust mar­ket analy­sis reli­ably iden­ti­fies con­tin­u­ous sources of alpha that exist due to inef­fi­cien­cies in the behav­ior of mar­ket par­tic­i­pants.
We take a pre­dom­i­nant­ly quan­ti­ta­tive approach to all aspects of trad­ing.
Strat­e­gy selec­tion, port­fo­lio con­struc­tion, exe­cu­tion and risk con­trol are usu­al­ly accom­pa­nied by algo­rith­mic and sys­tem­at­ic process­es.

Our goal is to achieve a con­sis­tent, absolute return with an uncor­re­lat­ed or neg­a­tive­ly cor­re­lat­ed per­for­mance result com­pared to var­i­ous U.S. indices such as the S&P 500 index or the U.S. Gov­ern­ment Bond index, as well as hedge fund indices.
Our trad­ing pro­grams offer clear diver­si­fi­ca­tion ben­e­fits.

Investors who added our trad­ing strate­gies to their port­fo­lios ben­e­fit­ed from above-aver­age earn­ings in the medi­um to long term, while reduc­ing risk of their over­all port­fo­lio (pos­i­tive cor­re­la­tion effects).

We offer UCITS funds that have an excel­lent long-term track record, dai­ly liq­uid­i­ty, and low to no cor­re­la­tion with oth­er mar­ket indices.
Bro­ker­age ser­vices for fixed-income and struc­tured prod­ucts com­plete the invest­ment offer­ing.

We invest glob­al­ly and pri­mar­i­ly take a long/short approach, based on tech­ni­cal­ly select­ed invest­ments – we don’t chase mar­ket nov­el­ties as a mat­ter of prin­ci­ple.
Our invest­ment strate­gies are based on long-term track records.
Clients under­stand our process­es and port­fo­lios because they are trans­par­ent.
Sys­tem­at­ic analy­sis mod­els are, among oth­er things, the basis of our invest­ment per­spec­tive.

Using our PAM funds as an exam­ple, risk con­trol is both proac­tive and reac­tive.
Proac­tive risk con­trols include restric­tions on lever­age and posi­tion scal­ing, aligned with prod­uct volatil­i­ty and return tar­gets.

Our typ­i­cal expo­sure is about 1/4 of the max­i­mum expo­sure, and some­times our strate­gies can be com­plete­ly out of the mar­ket.
Proac­tive risk con­trol con­tin­ues to be pro­vid­ed through strat­e­gy diver­si­fi­ca­tion.
Reac­tive risk con­trols involve a stop loss on posi­tions.

Estab­lished finan­cial cen­tres such as New York, Lon­don and Sin­ga­pore are increas­ing­ly fac­ing com­pe­ti­tion from inno­v­a­tive, tax-friend­ly and well-reg­u­lat­ed economies around the globe.
We expect this trend to con­tin­ue as long as tech­no­log­i­cal advances con­tin­ue to decen­tral­ize the finan­cial indus­try.

Due to its recog­nised reg­u­la­to­ry envi­ron­ment, an attrac­tive tax sys­tem and its geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion, Liecht­en­stein is rapid­ly ris­ing in the finan­cial world.
There are no income tax­es on assets under man­age­ment at the fund lev­el.
Funds are not sub­ject to VAT, and funds can even be con­sid­ered tax-exempt par­ties .
Final­ly, there are no with­hold­ing tax­es to be paid on div­i­dend dis­tri­b­u­tions.
In addi­tion, the cor­po­rate income tax in Liecht­en­stein is only 12.5% — sig­nif­i­cant­ly low­er than in many neigh­bor­ing coun­tries.

The offi­cial lan­guage is Ger­man, the offi­cial cur­ren­cy is the Swiss franc, and the coun­try has deep eco­nom­ic ties to Switzer­land and the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area.
As a neigh­bour of Switzer­land, Liecht­en­stein has long been asso­ci­at­ed with the Swiss bank­ing sec­tor and the tal­ent­ed employ­ees who bring it to life.
For investors, this means that fund man­agers based in Liecht­en­stein are like­ly to be among the best and bright­est tal­ents in the finan­cial indus­try.
At AIF Alter­na­tiv Invest Finance AG, we are proud of our roots in Liecht­en­stein.

Liecht­en­stein is one of only 12 coun­tries in the world to receive the high­est cred­it rat­ing of AAA from Stan­dard & Poor’s.
This cred­it rat­ing is large­ly due to the fact that Liecht­en­stein has absolute­ly no pub­lic debt .
Since 2008, pub­lic debt has risen glob­al­ly and it is almost impos­si­ble to find anoth­er devel­oped econ­o­my that has absolute­ly no debt on its pub­lic bal­ance sheet.
In addi­tion to this eco­nom­ic sta­bil­i­ty, there is a polit­i­cal envi­ron­ment that pro­vides a high degree of legal cer­tain­ty for new and exist­ing com­pa­nies.
As a result, retail investors do not have to wor­ry about regime change or polit­i­cal upheaval when choos­ing an inde­pen­dent asset man­ag­er in Liecht­en­stein.

The Team

René Sapper

René Sapper

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor
r.sapper@aif.li

Philipp Strasser

Philipp Strasser

Finan­cial Offi­cer
p.strasser@aif.li

Dirk Biermann

Dirk Biermann

Oper­a­tions Offi­cer
d.biermann@aif.li

Christian Holzner

Christian Holzner

Tech­ni­cal Offi­cer
c.holzner@aif.li

Everardo Gemmi

Everardo Gemmi

Head of Sales
e.gemmi@aif.li

Nehat Sadiki

Nehat Sadiki

Busi­ness Devel­op­ment
n.sadiki@aif.li

Magdalena Zangerle

Magdalena Zangerle

Assis­tant to Man­age­ment
m.zangerle@aif.li

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