# Unlocking Liquidity With Tokenized Fund Of Funds - Ar Nazir and Christopher Keshian @ TOKEN2049

- Channel: [TOKEN2049](https://streameth.org/token2049)
- Date: 2018-10-09
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-sa9UiG38-Hw
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9UiG38-Hw

## Transcript

[Music] thank you so we are apex token fund the first tokenized crypto fund of funds apex provides exposure to ten of the top performing crypto hedge funds through one single token investment we will discuss more about that throughout this presentation but before we jump in here this space is becoming increasingly complex and so we decided to launch apex as a means of providing a more sophisticated investment vehicle for this asset class quick background on me I've been in the space for about four years I have been trading crypto for about that long about a year and a half ago re and I launched neural capital which is one of the first long short hedge funds in the space and I'm Ari and I most CIO of apex token fund and neural capital based in the bay also a investment advisor for protocol Ventures the premier hedge fund fund of funds for crypto funds a lot of funds that's an investor in protocol in poly chain capital metastable block tower multi coin and sever all their top funds around the world and the other people on our team it's a list of accomplished Silicon Valley veterans including Tim Young who co-founded social caste and about top me and was a seed investor in ripple stellar and ICO into aetherium and then we also have engineering talent from alums of Stanford University of Michigan Y Combinator a billion-dollar FinTech company named plaid and gem a blockchain enterprise startup so being in a crypto hedge fund space one of the ironies of blockchain is that despite the fact that there is a lot of data there is not that much transparency and insights into the performance of various hedge funds or into the performance of various assets at any in time and one of the one of the issues that we wanted to make sure we solve was being able to do technical and rigorous financial diligence on a number of financial hedge funds and assets because the average investor no longer has time to keep up with the 1,500 assets that are publicly traded that are growing that have immense volatility and risk and the ability to do due diligence requires professional investors who have a background in doing so so we think there's a high cost of entry in which each crypto fund now has a minimum of one to five million dollars and there is a lock-up of 12 to 24 months sometimes even longer and it prevents people from making concentrated and investments in a short order with also doing diligence and we believe apex token fund allows us to solve some of these key issues so apex token fund is the first tokenized fund of funds that invests using it after doing due diligence in the top-performing crypto funds in the world by investing and purchasing apex token funds you have ownership in the master fund which then invest across 10 different crypto funds this is this provides smarter management of risk and market volatility because you have professional investors like Brian Kelly Capital Management who do deeper diligence and are able to negotiate better deals with various projects you have greater upside potential for your returns because of the collective negotiation power of various funds you also have better diversification as opposed to just holding your own crypto portfolio you're able to trust funds who have actively managed positions across the hundreds of assets and almost most I would say most importantly you have immediate liquidity so that if you purchase a apex token fund a token you you're able to sell that to anybody on a secondary market so more about our diversified return we have acts we're invested in long short and long crypto funds that either hold concentrated positions or diverse positions of to 2230 assets you have more quantitative and technical analysis space funds that use algorithms to trade on sentiment or on technical analysis and that includes arbitrage across exchanges across markets across countries and then you also have funds that are invested in token sales and the ico process so some of our partner funds include Brian Kelly Capital Management who gave the keynote pantera capital one of the preeminent funds in the space multi coin capital which is backed by increase in Horowitz and backed by Vinnie Lingam and David Sachs a former CEO of PayPal and then you also have Tetris capital based in New York run by Alex Brendan and those are just the North American funds you also have funds in Asia such as in blockchain and Sora ventures so there are many advantages to an investment vehicle like this first as already mentioned instant liquidity so apex tokens are tradable right when the fund launches which means there's no lock-up on investors capital a second advantage is the diversification of a vehicle like this apex as already mentioned provides exposure to ten of the top performing crypto hedge funds all executing different strategies in the crypto space so that provides investors with broad diversified exposure to this asset class the strategies these fund managers are executing are sophisticated they have advanced investment analytics effectively by holding apex tokens your capital is managed by these top fund managers apex is an ER c20 token it is can be held on any aetherium wallet they can be purchased in one of our public sales our presale was in January that was oversubscribed in about an hour our public presale is going on right now and our public sales in May tokens can be purchased for ether US dollar Bitcoin or stellar so Ari and I will be out in the hall after this if you're interested in discussing this further please come talk with us or you can visit our website apex token fund comm thanks so much [Music]