Investment boutique "Ankor Invest": reviews, address, minimum entry

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

When we get an education, learn new skills, improve our professionalism, engage in physical education, improve our he alth through proper balanced nutrition programs, or take care of our children, we thereby make an investment in our future. This description gives us a general idea of the investment.

Investing in general is a bit like a modern computer game. Just like in it, for a long time it is necessary to perform many important and necessary, but not always understandable and pleasant, and sometimes even risky actions of different levels of complexity, in order to eventually get bonuses - he alth, strength and endurance, material well-being, emotional stability and much more - all the weapons that, just like in the game, make us stronger in real life, making up invaluable capital and new growth opportunities.

But our world is material and based largely on material values. It cannot be said that money rules the world: nevertheless, a person hasstrong spiritual needs, but they have a significant impact on the quality of life of each person, sometimes determining his fate.

Besides this, progress is driven by capital. To create and build it, it is necessary to use financial instruments. And this is where our vocabulary should be replenished with such concepts as "capital accumulation", "investment", "brokerage company" and so on.

Accumulation

Speaking of savings, we primarily represent simple savings or bank deposits. The advantages of such a capital increase are in the ultra-low risks of losing savings thanks to the Deposit Insurance Agency. But the required amount will also be created over the years, if not decades, since its growth depends on those small periodic replenishments of the principal amount that a citizen or bank capitalization makes, interest on a deposit, because interest rates at present do not even approach the level of inflation. Therefore, now it is irrational to use simple accumulation to create capital. This so-called "old-fashioned" method is typical for a steadily developing economy, with the majority of the country's population confident in a socially secure future.

Currently, it is convenient to use bank deposits not for accumulation, but for the preservation and operational use of relatively small amounts of cash savings.

Among those who like to use banking products, banks with a history and a promoted brand are more popular and trusted. For example, Sberbank. It's believed thatsuch banks are stable, they do not face the loss of a license, and the depositor does not have to spend his time and effort returning the savings.

But, as a rule, such banks give low interest rates on deposits that do not even cover inflation. Higher interest rates should be expected from small, obscure regional banks. Finding clients-depositors is an urgent need for them, and they are ready to fight for them with higher interest rates, shares, gifts when making a deposit.

At present, even with the frequent withdrawal of licenses from banks and their closure, thanks to the deposit insurance program, depositors no longer worry about the safety of their savings. On a deposit, you can keep an amount comparable to the cost of an apartment, and not worry about its safety in case the bank collapses.

Credits

Multi-year accumulation of we alth currently does not allow avoiding the loss of savings from inflation, and certainly does not ensure their rapid growth.

Therefore, many resort to such a simple concept as a loan in order to quickly acquire capital. In the Russian economy, more than half of all investments are loans. The pros here obviously overlap with the cons: you still have to repay the borrowed funds, and this reduces investment opportunities, and, as a result, income.

The interests of foreign entrepreneurs in investing in the Russian economy are for the most part only in its raw materials area: no one is going to share nanotechnologies with us. That is why now more than 90% of the capacitiesin the oil and gas industry are based precisely on foreign investment.

In an era of crisis in foreign policy relations of the state, such indicators do not reflect the stability of economic development and do not create obstacles to the export of capital abroad: Russia is still not attractive enough to store large amounts of savings.

Rental

Another conservative and time-tested way to save money is to invest in real estate. Here, as everyone knows, there may be options:

• rent;
• purchase for resale.

Rent happens:

• in new buildings and in the "secondary";
• monthly, daily and hourly, for special occasions (New Year holidays), seasonal (for resort towns);
• citizens and their teams, under an agreement with an institution or enterprise for their employees, more options.

The profitability of one or another option for renting out housing is determined by many factors, for example, the main ones:

• location of the house, its appearance and condition;
• transport accessibility;
• quality of apartment renovation;
• compliance with the personal requirements of the tenant: the level of natural light, the orientation of windows to the cardinal points, neighbors and so on.

An interesting option is to rent an apartment to employees of consulates and embassies. If the rented apartment has a high-quality European-quality repair and is within walking distance from these institutions, a rental agreement can be concluded forlong-term, for several years, period. Accordingly, the prices for such apartments are in the top.

Hourly or daily apartment rentals are also the most profitable. At the end of the month, it is one and a half to two times higher than the amount of the monthly rent.

Although the profit that is collected with such a lease for six months or a year comes from renting out a whole house or estate, for example, to a team for the New Year holidays. Of course, here, too, the revenue depends on the degree of “eliteness” of the rented housing.

Purchase and sale

Features of real estate transactions related to its purchase for the purpose of resale:

• the need for large investments at the initial stage;
• risks associated with the unreliability of developers;
• long waiting period for profit;
• profit depends on changes in market prices for real estate in the region;
• necessity to pay sales tax.

If the purchased apartment belongs to the secondary housing stock, if it is resold before the expiration of the three-year period established by law, the seller will be required to pay sales tax.

In the case of purchasing an apartment from a developer, the sale of housing saves from paying tax before handing over to its owner a certificate of ownership, issued after the delivery of the house. In this case, he does not sell an apartment, but his equity participation in construction, which is not taxed upon sale.

True, at present, the government is striving to protect equity holders from unscrupulous developers, offering to purchase apartments in already rentedhouses. Of course, this option will save you from the possible loss of investments for the purchase of an apartment, but the money will be "beaten off" only after three years.

Investing in the stock market

Above we have considered the safest options for possible ways of saving and investing. Investing in the stock market is the riskiest of all. And at the same time - the most highly profitable. Here overnight you can burn out or get rich, like in a casino. In the stock market, it is customary to play (to increase or decrease quotes) or to make stock investments.

You can invest both in Russian and foreign stock markets. For this type of capital allocation, only large amounts of funds are used, which, as a rule, no one personally manages, but hires a special manager from numerous companies providing these services.

Currently, the Forex market is actively developing. Opportunities for investing on it have appeared only recently, and they are due to the development of Internet technologies: you can make investments in Forex online via the Internet. Due to its maximum accessibility, investors can operate with the money they have on their own, but you can also trust special managers called traders.

Investment funds

Funds are based on capital:

• Russian;
• foreign;
• Russian with foreign capital.

Funds are divided by focusinvestment:

• in real estate and other investments;
• in securities and other financial instruments;
• to new projects, technologies.

This gradation can be continued. There are a lot of funds. It is dictated by the multidirectional nature of their activities.

When placing funds in investment funds, one must be aware that they are not participants in the deposit insurance program, and citizens bear all the risks of such operations on their own.

Anchor Invest

And now about the main thing. One example of Russian investment funds with the participation of foreign capital is Ankor Invest LLC. Its partner is the international holding GL Asset Management.

Location of the central office of "Ankor Invest" at the address: st. Nikolskaya, 10, Moscow. Getting here is very easy. Nikolskaya street is not a banking street of the city. Therefore, Ankor Invest is the only investment company in Moscow at this address. This is her advantage.

Among Moscow-based investment companies, Ankor Invest occupies one of the leading positions. This is not surprising.

What is Anchor Invest investment boutique? What does he represent? This is a brokerage company that positions itself as a "financial service boutique" and is an investment fund.

What does Ankor Invest do? investment, that isinvestments of large amounts of money. Their owners have already exhausted the possibilities of the domestic economy to increase their profits. Financial instruments offered in Russia do not give high interest in foreign currency. Therefore, the activities of the company, located on Nikolskaya Street, are mainly aimed at Western countries with developed economies, such as Switzerland, Germany and others, through the American broker Interactive Brokers.

How good are the company's financial performance? In 2016, in terms of investment strategy management efficiency, Ankor Invest received the annual Financial Olympus award, becoming the "Best Trust Management Company".

The minimum entry to Anchor Invest to participate in investments is $200,000 or its equivalent in any other currency. This monetary qualification immediately forms the company's client base, creating with its help exactly an "investment boutique" - a kind of meeting place for people of the same social status.

Investment funds as a concept came to us from the West. Therefore, Ankor Invest, like any other fund, has a "mission". It consists in making effective decisions on the funds invested in the trust management of the fund and extracting the maximum profit from them for the client and for the fund.

The maximum profit of Anchor Invest is obtained in the following ways:

• licensed brokerage and dealer, as well as depository activities in the financialmarket;
• trust management of securities and numerous portfolios of investment strategies developed by the fund, selected by Russian clients for use in foreign financial markets.

Work with the fund's clients is realized by selling them investment portfolios, oriented towards the initialization of various management strategies. Then a manager is assigned to each client, an account is opened, the status of which the client can monitor in his personal account.

Judging by the reviews, Ankor Invest has shown higher performance for individual portfolios than similar companies over the past few years. Although, in general, his strategies are rated as conservative.

The central portfolio, called the Statistical Arbitrage Strategy, according to the company's website, is a neutral combination of highly liquid financial instruments, which guarantees the depositor a low level of investment risks both in case of falling and rising stock market quotations with stable average values of the annual income. The neutral strategy provides a low level of "drawdown" - up to 5% with a relatively high level of profitability.

According to reviews, these values fluctuate, on average:

• 2014 - 13%;
• 2015 - 18%;
• 2016 - 14%.

Of course, no Russian bank can guarantee such income for savings in foreign currency to our citizens.

Individual approach to each client is guaranteed here thanks to more than 200 options for investment strategies.

"Anchor Invest". Reviews

What else do the company's customers say? There are really a lot of reviews about Ankor Invest. The nature of these comments is sharply multidirectional: from sugar-flattering messages to sharp criticism.

By the way, some of the critical reviews are also devoted to the assessment of positive reports about the fund, suspecting most of their authors of bias.

Positive

Clients in their reviews of Anchor Invest mainly express the following theses:

• High returns on the fund's overall investment strategies.
• The level of risk to which the initial investment is exposed is negligible.
• The central investment strategy outperformed the others.
• The performance of foreign currency investment in Ankor Invest is incomparable with the best offers of banks.
• The current state of affairs in the company does not prevent investors from withdrawing funds from their accounts at the end of the contract.
• Getting a profit and the absence of problems with the fund's compliance with the terms of the contract creates a mood among clients for further cooperation.
• The telephone availability of the fund and its specialists has a positive effect on the attitude of its clients towards it.
• Anchor Invest's partner has long established itself in Europe and the USA. His offers are distinguished by a high level of security and an average yield of about 10.5%.
• The Ankor Invest investment boutique is focused on the international stock market, and not on the Russian economy. itis its advantage for saving and increasing investments, since the global stock market is more stable than the domestic one.
• Stable company with professional specialists. Criticism is written by competitors or employees fired for unprofessionalism, who want to finally annoy their former employer.

Negative

The main negative messages about the activities of the fund are the stories of former ordinary employees of the company about cases of conflicts with various levels of its management. Specific facts linking the concepts of "fraud" and "Ankor Invest" are not indicated by the former investors. In general, reviews from contributors are few. And they concern only experienced positive or neutral investment experience with the help of specialists of this fund.

The main negative theses of the reviews are as follows:

• Among the management of Ankor Invest there are many dishonest people who carry out irresponsible and ill-considered operations with other people's money.
• For ordinary employees, it is a very hard work here, professionalism is required in everything, responsibility for every decision, which not everyone can do. To make good money, you just need to live at work.
• Turnover due to strained relationships between departmental management and staff on a personal or professional basis.
• Management obliges ordinary employees to leave feedback on the Internet about the work of the company, in connection with which there are a lot of "carbon copy" written comments on variousonline resources.

Doubts

Compiling a review of Ankor Invest, one has to deal with clearly biased comments about its activities. The conclusion that these reviews do not reflect the real state of affairs, one has to come across the following details:

• Practically all the "businessmen" who invested in this "boutique" did not find it on their own, but were advised to do so by a childhood friend, just friends, fellow businessmen, partners.
• The commenter, reporting his success story, becomes one step with the one who reads the review, and says to him: "Look at me, I made up my mind, and here is the result. Nothing bad happened."
• Often positive reviews mention the same word form - “market-neutral strategy”. In various cases and combinations. From different names. It happens that she is mentioned in several positive reviews read in a row.
• Some reviews about Anchor Invest mention a fake fraudulent "boutique" that denigrates the real company with their dirty deeds, as well as dismissed negligent employees who, out of revenge, denigrate their former management.

These circumstances create doubts about the success of the company and the cleanliness of its responsible persons. There are questions. For example, why does a fund need biased articles about it, if, judging by the same reviews, and according to the Ankor Invest website, the company's financial indicators consistently show data that is attractive for investment.

Result

When we invest something for the purpose of getting a certain profit or benefit from it, this means that we are investing.

For different levels of capital, there are optimal tools for its growth. So, with very little cash, it is reasonable to simply accumulate them up to a certain amount for subsequent placement in the bank.

Serious money requires a prudent attitude. They cannot just lie in a safe or on a bank deposit: there are too many of them for this, so they must work, be invested. There are several proven options, among which exchange-traded investments have now reached the top positions through trust management carried out by investment funds. Their activities are largely closed. This is understandable: money loves silence. But for the investor, this silence can turn into real losses. Therefore, these companies are always in the public eye of experts, and without consulting with several of them, you should not make responsible decisions.

There is no information in the print media about the prosecution of its management or the circumstances of fraud confirmed by the court verdict, or other officially established negative information about Ankor Invest.

It remains to be concluded that Ankor Invest is an attractive investment company for individuals looking for a safe place to place their foreign currency millions. Her, according to some reviews, conservative, savings policy finds its adherents among the same cautious and pragmaticcontributors.