ITI Funds

07/08/2020

ETF backers declare victory after ‘largest ever stress test’. The ETF sector vaulted over the $6tn-in-assets mark last year, up more than sevenfold since 2007. While traditional actively managed equity funds have suffered another $143bn of withdrawals this year, equity ETFs have taken in another $111bn, according to EPFR, a data provider.

Strong index composition and positive outlook also surge new inflows into ITI Funds Eurobond ETF (ticker: RUSB). The current AUM is $12,5m+

Source - https://www.ft.com/content/e71a193f-0f35-45d9-ac59-d7ad00d52945

30/07/2020

ITI Funds and «Inversion» management team have launched the first Non-core Assets Fund in CIS focused on investments in private debt. The first investment round is 90% closed. The investment conditions are:

- The target return for investors: 50% in rub terms. The deals pipeline is available upon request
- Dividend payment: every six months, 50-90% of the accumulated profit. The first payment: in 12 months
- Fund lifespan: 3 years. Early redemption available
- Assets: debts secured by liquid assets; debts of real sector enterprises

Taking into account the current economic environment the fund is expected to be one of the most promising investment opportunities.

ITI Funds chose «Inversion» team as the main partner for the project, because «Inversion» has an unprecedented expertise: the team has been working with distressed assets since 2011, the average annual return is 61%.

22/07/2020

Gett, the London and Israel-based company that competes with the likes of Uber and many others to provide private car rides on-demand, has raised $100 million. Gett’s CEO and founder Dave Waiser told TechCrunch that the funding is all primary equity capital, and the company says it plans to use it to continue investing in its B2B business, which has been growing — not shrinking or staying flat — in the midst of the global health pandemic.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/21/gett-raises-100m-more-to-double-down-on-its-b2b-on-demand-ride-business/?guccounter=1

15/07/2020

Please find attached market news related to opportunity posted above.

1. Both unemployment rate and jobless claims are declining and remain below market expectations.
2. The demand for mortgage loans has risen above the pre-crisis level. So we do not expect real estate price drop.
3. No more new borrowers requesting the forbearance.

https://itifunds-etf.com/docs/ITIFunds_non_QM.pdf



https://itifunds-etf.com/docs/Market_news_15_07_2020.pdf

14/07/2020

As the coronavirus hit the U.S. in March, the S&P 500 index plummeted. Since its nadir, it has leapt more than 40% in 3½ months to within 6% of its all-time high. How can the stock market be so strong? MarketWatch presents its answer.

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-2-charts-explain-why-the-stock-market-is-so-strong-while-the-economy-is-still-so-weak-2020-07-12

19/06/2020

International Grain Council expects Russian wheat production to exceed 79 million tons in 2020/21 season. It will be the largest volume for the whole history except 2017/18 season. The estimated export volume is 36.1 million tons. Russia remains the largest wheat exporter.

Thus we see the following product as a good opportunity: ITI Commodities bonds backed by export wheat export with fixed annual coupon 11% paid quarterly.

17/04/2020

Gilead stock surges 15% after report says coronavirus drug trial shows encouraging early results.

Gilead stock is included in our new investment product called ITI Funds Global Cure - portfolio of pharmaceutical companies.

26/03/2020

ITI Funds Marrying Football And Private Equity For High Returns

Buying sports teams has been traditionally as much a labour of love as it has been a business decision, but for ITI Funds, they see football as an opportunity to provide healthy IRRs to their clients. To that end, ITI Funds is launching a football private equity fund which will acquire five teams – to create a portfolio of football assets which they expect to provide a 3x return in the next five to seven years.

Read more in new interview at Alpha Week.



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Investment boutique planning European football club spending spree

17/03/2020

♻️ The online education company Coursera announced that any university in the world closing its doors in response to the new coronavirus can receive free access to most of its online courses.

Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Rice, and Harvard are just a few of the growing list of schools cancelling in-person classes and moving online. Coursera has already fielded inquiries about online learning options from government education authorities in Pakistan, Kurdistan, and Peru.
Online learning has grown due to long-run factors including cost and convenience, but higher education has generally been “slow to adopt” tools like Coursera’s. “The higher education community will take a big leap forward because of the forced experimentation that’s happening during this crisis,” Coursera Chief Enterprise Officer Leah Belsky says.
Coursera is one of the most popular and oldest websites offering massive open online courses. Its base of users has grown from 26 million in 2017 to 40 million in 2019. This makes Coursera the largest provider in the online education market, which is projected to be worth between $42.97 billion and $65.48 billion worldwide by 2026. Current valuation is around $1.6 billion.

Source:

The "forced experiment" of the coronavirus pandemic could lead to more adoption of online learning, the company says.

11/03/2020

You call that volatility?

The current market turmoil again underlines the importance of portfolio diversification – not only among assets, but also between investment strategies. While some strategies, particularly long only, weather significant declines, others actually profit from them. The best example is trend strategies that profit from volatility regardless of the market’s direction.

ITI Funds’ algorithmic trend strategy operates on three exchanges: CME, MoEx, and Bitmex/Binance (crypto). On Monday volatility movement the strategy gained 14% in USD terms on CME, 16.4% in RUB terms on MoEx, 8.7% in USD terms on crypto exchanges.

YTD returns are:
CME: +20.58% in USD terms
MoEx: +40.83% in RUB terms
Crypto: +23.45% in USD terms



Source: https://www.itifunds.com/algo-trend-strategy