SRP looked at nine funds, including structures from the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK, to see how they coped with the market volatility during the start of the year.
Bufferfund The Dutch open-ended fund’s main objective is to achieve a positive return in the long term, with a much lower risk than is associated with a regular equity investment. It aims to achieve its objectives by investing in bonus and discount certificates on both indices and individual shares that are listed in Germany. Besides that, put options are bought to mitigate the risks of a (sharp) global decline in the financial markets. After the poor start to January, prices on the financial