Quote from: mandelbert on May 22, 2013, 07:51:15 AM

Sounds interesting. I have a few questions:

1. You say the fund is a "balanced risk fund" and "will stick to moderate risk asset shares". I'm curious, how do you evaluate risk? I mean, what do you consider moderate as opposed to low or high?

2. You say you have "extensive experience in share-trading and investment products". Could you elaborate on that a bit - how long have you been trading/investing, how much money was involved, did you handle others people money, how successful your investments were, etc.

Thank you for your questions.

1) Firstly, keep in mind that the term "risk" with bitcoins is relative. Bitcoins are inherently very risky, so when I class things in bitcoin investments as "low-risk", they are generally still very risky by market standards. They are simply less risky than other BTC market segments.

There are several ways that I class risk in a bitcoin market. A good way to think about it is that risk and "aggressive" actions go hand-in-hand. On a high-risk bitcoin fund, you might see more bold moves made, such as sticking in a lot of funds in to a share that we believe is about to take off, or making less-diverse investments and focusing on high-risk-high-return emerging companies that may not be proven yet.

More specific examples is that in a non-high risk fund (which this initial offering is), there will be no investment plays at the forex game (bitcoin vs USD bets). Where as in a high-risk fund, there could be. There may even be a fund in the future that solely plays the forex game and nothing else, but that would be amongst the most gambler-esk funds available.

A low risk fund will focus on safer bets, diversified investments, focus on older companies that have proven dividends, and dividend stability/yield. Dividends being a critical component of risk assessment. I contemplated starting with low-risk funds only, as bitcoins are risky enough and the market may not be mature enough for riskier, higher potential profit investments (and I'd rather people got safer returns to start with than trying for crazy-high returns that could easily go the other way. It's never nice to blow the fund on a high-risk move so early in the life of it)

2) I have been trading shares for 10 years, have traded forex, bonds, ETF's, waist-deep in to the property market and I am a part of an angel investor group here in Australia. My real estate portfolio is valued at around 1.8m, my shares $160k, and several other investments. I also run an IT business. I don't work for an investment bank or manage investments commercially.