How long has BSC existed? BSC UK started 8 years ago. Most of our Clients there are in Financial Services in the City of London. We have acquired a reputation as the Wealth Manager of wealth managers. With this impressive track record, we opened the Hong Kong office last year.

What is Black Swan Capital? We are an Independent Wealth Manager. Independence is important as it enables us to be completely unbiased in product selection unlike banks or insurers who are always under pressure to sell in-house products. Wealth Management is much more than being a Financial Advisor. It is about a holistic client relationship requiring high level of bespoke tailoring and investment management expertise.

In these troubled times, how do we know we can trust Black Swan Capital? Firstly, Black Swan Capital never handles Client money; investments always go directly to the product provider. Secondly, recent collapses of financial icons show that history, size of balance sheet or familiarity of brand mean nothing – it is only individuals which can be trusted. That’s why we always encourage new Clients to take their time and use their own judgement and our testimonials to decide whether they can trust their Wealth Manager.

What Challenges or Opportunities does the Financial Tsunami bring? Clients have less cash and, following widespread poor advice, from banks in particular, are more cautious and quite reasonably more demanding. This has resulted in a flight to quality which suits Black Swan Capital very nicely.

Is Black Swan Capital Really Different? Yes, and in many ways. Our Wealth Managers have a salary based remuneration system designed to align their rewards with Clients' objectives.

We carry out thorough market research and respond directly to Client feedback, continually adding fund managers, our own structured products and other investment vehicles to our platform.

What examples of your “Unique Product Solutions” can you show? Clients often have requirements that cannot be met from the ‘standard’ fund range offered by most wealth managers. We listen very carefully to our Clients’ demands, and employ institutional calibre analytical tools to identify the most appropriate products and solutions for them. Where necessary, we can make use of our excellent relationships with a broad range of specialist and alternative fund managers to bring some truly unique products to the table.

For example:

Client Need    A market neutral fund with the potential to perform irrespective of market direction and reduce portfolio risk		Solution We identified a UK Equity Long/Short fund and made it available through one of our standard trading platforms
Client Need  A safe haven when everything seems to be going down		Solution We signed terms of business with a specialist commodity fund fund manager in order to gain access to their Gold Bullion fund