Today I came across the above advertisement in steemit.com by a company known as Amfeix Index FZE. The company claims to be managing the World's First Blockchain Fund and is inviting prospective investors to invest in it.
On Amfeix's website, under the heading, "Blockchain Fund Details", the company says,
"AMFEIX groups investors' funds into a pool that is managed by experienced traders on liquid exchanges. Our team of professional technical traders and analysts execute open market operations on daily basis and make profits from the volatility."
No details of the so-called professional technical traders and analysts is given. We are expected to believe their word as gospel truth and invest in the fund.
I was curious to know more details about the company and its registration details. The only information I could find about company was a copy of the company's Certificate of Registration, as shown below, which could be found by clicking the Company Registration link found on their website.
This Certificate of Registration shows that the company is registered in the Umm Al Quwain Free Zone, United Arab Emirates. Naturally I was curious to find out why anybody would register a blockchain company in a Free Zone in UAE.
My probing led me to this link: UAQ Free Zone, which provides the procedures and details for the formation of company in Umm Al Quwain Free Zone and this link: UAE & Dubai Free Zone, which provides the procedures and details for the formation of company in all the Free Zones in UAE, including the UAQ Free Zone.
The following are the facts that were gleaned by reading the above two links:
- The "FZE" in Amfeix Index FZE means the company is a "one owner" company.
- The owner need not be present in the UAE to register the company.
- There is no capital requirements for the company.
- The company is not required to be audited.
- The company registration can be done in 1-2 days.
- Once invested, your funds are in the control of the company (i.e the single owner).
- No details are given on the security measures taken to protect the funds, except that it is stated that 50% of the funds are used for trading and the other 50% is held in cold storage.
- No details given of the number of fund managers managing the fund.
- The names and the credentials (the qualifications and experience) of the fund manager(s) are not given.
I do not want to go into the merits and demerits of investing in the above fund.
What I am interested to know is how many of you, given the above facts, would or would not invest in the fund and why?
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If it is save to invest in why not I can give it a try after all life is all about risk
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Interesting @maxwellnewlif7. Truly, "Gentle humble and easy going".
How much do you plan to invest?
Hi Devann, I'm Mike. I understand the concerns you are bringing up regarding registration and the lack of transparency of the analysts and traders.
I'll start by saying, I've been an investor in Amfeix since June and have come to learn a lot about the company.
In 2017 it started out small. It was only private to a few investors. Then in 2018 the CEO decided to open it up to public clients. But it stayed small at first. As it grew, his motivation grew to make everything streamlined and expand the fund. To this day, everything is not perfect yet. But progress continues. The fund has come a long way.
Regarding registration, the reason for UAE and Indonesia is because the CEO needs to start somewhere. Another registration in England was just acquired a week ago and plans to register in south Africa, Malta and Tanzania are in the works. Actual offices are being opened up in some of these places soon too. Expansion.
Link to Amfeix England Registration
You can pick at the company all day long in its infancy, but a company has to start somewhere. Things seem to be coming along good.
As far as the White paper and giving more details about the traders and other essential information, that is all going to be added in time. Right now the fund is still rather small. Faster code is being worked on for the smart contract that is being used by the amfeixportal.
I actually wrote a full in-depth review about everything I've come to learn and what my experience has been. I'm not as good of a writer as you, all I did was take what I know and write it down as good as I could.
If you want to give it a read, search Amfeix Review by an Investor on google.
I've come to know the CEO over the past 4 months and he is a pretty cool and good guy. He has a big vision for Amfeix.