ViamInvest has developed a proprietary asset management system that is based on long-only value investing. Like other value investors we take advantage of price inefficiencies in the stock markets that are caused by less informed traders' overreactions to good or bad news announcements. However, our system is special in the sense that it only relies on information that is readily available from financial information retrieval systems. In other words, it does not use tacit or unspoken information. This enables us to reproduce/simulate the performance of our investment system on historic data and thereby gather evidence on its potential return and risk ahead of doing any real investments. We are using this advantage to optimize our system for real investments. The key features of our investment product are:

1. Robust validation: ViamInvest will allow our initial investors to validate our investment process and our reproduced performance data to assure them of the quality of our asset management system. This validation will also cover several robustness tests made to reveal the sensitivity of our reproduced performance data for various changes in procedures and assumptions.
2. Higher return: Our reproduced investment return is substantially higher than the global stock market return.
3. Risk no worse: Our reproduced investment risk is no worse than the risk of a non-leveraged index fund that tracks the return on the global stock market.
4. No gearing: ViamInvest abstains from leverage 1) because it enables us to avoid being forced to sell out at depressed prices, 2) because we have no effective hedge opportunities and 3) because it discourages excessive risk taking arising from the risk maximizing incentive of the performance fee.
5. Semi-liquid: Our product is semi-liquid since it is unquoted. However, we are not locked-up in long-term investments and we are therefore both more liquid and have lower exit costs than many other unquoted investment products.
6. Impeccable incentives: ViamInvest's investment fund setup induces our employees to stay focused on pursuing our investment objective which is to maximize long-term alpha. This is achieved mainly by 1) requiring our portfolio managers to invest minimum 75% of their personal and investable fortune in our investment product and 2) by using a performance fee that qua ViamInvest’s fund setup effectively becomes a fee on the generated long-term alpha as it should be.

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