The iSelect Approach for Financial Advisors

Regulations, uncertain markets, monetary policy, and a thousand other factors are making it even harder for financial advisors to offer their clients reliable investment strategies. Retirees are watching retirement savings dwindle. Millennials don’t believe the S&P 500 is reliable. Few people trust Social Security to provide meaningful retirement benefits. It has become difficult for financial advisors to provide clients with solutions that offer long-term returns.

iSelect is working to solve this problem.

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“Growing your AUM with Venture”

Looking for Alternatives

Many accredited investors and advisors seeking consistent, risk-adjusted returns that are uncorrelated to the market are looking for alternative investments. This category of assets grew at an 11% CAGR over the last decade. Indeed, a survey found 43% of financial advisors expect to increase client allocations to alternatives within the next 12 months, and 78% agree or strongly agree that alternatives are a critical component of overall asset allocation. Alternatives are expected to account for up to 50% of net new revenues in U.S. retail asset management by 2020.

The Case for Venture

Venture capital funds, one of the various alternatives, are investment funds that manage money from investors seeking equity stakes in privately held startups, small- and medium-sized enterprises with strong growth potential. These investments are high-risk/high-return opportunities.

The iSelect Solution

iSelect helps average accredited investors to invest as little as $5,000 into individual, carefully vetted venture deals. Because financial advisors want better solutions for their clients, we built iSelect for RIAs and BDs. We invest in the same deals as leading venture capitalists. We make it easier for the average investor to get in on the action.

An investment in iSelect Fund is diversified across a series of new businesses, each of which is subjected to our extensive three-tiered due diligence process, which includes review by a FINRA compliant broker-dealer, our Venture Team, and our industry-specific Selection Committees. This process addresses the following fundamental questions about each investment:

  1. Is the venture commercially ready for business?
  2. Does the venture have the ability to create entry barriers necessary for a sustainable competitive advantage?
  3. Is the management team in place capable of growing the business responsibly?

Each company’s profile is summarized and packaged into an extensive diligence file made available to investors for detailed evaluation. Post-investment, iSelect requires each company to provide monthly reports, so investors can monitor the progress of their portfolio.

Co-Invest Alongside Top Venture Investors

In venture capital, it always pays to partner with others. iSelect co-invests alongside many of the top VC investors in the industry, including subject matter experts in agriculture, software, healthcare, resource efficiency and more. This ensures access to the best deals in the market, as well as giving our investors opportunities to invest with the best in the business, accessing deals that would otherwise be closed to them.

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