This Company Is Making Investment Funds Accessible To Individual Investors

Imagine you are an individual investor with $5,000 or $10,000 spare cash. You want to put it to good use so you research your options and you see that certain funds are performing well – say, for example, a real estate fund that invests in commercial property in New York. You want to pick up some equity in the fund and you’ve got your $10,000 ready to commit but there’s a problem – the minimum investment required to pick up equity in the fund you are looking at is $100,000.

This is a common problem and it’s one that leads to many individual investors that have restricted investment capital allocating towards less reputable funds or handing their cash over to an inexperienced investment manager, who then proceeds to rack up losses against the initial investment.

One company is creating a solution to this exact problem – Nousplatform.

Nousplatform is harnessing blockchain technology to allow fund managers to design, create and offer access to their own funds, based on practically any asset imaginable (so, New York commercial real estate, for example).

The technology tracks the performance of the funds that managers have created and provides up to date performance analysis to individual investors that are using the platform. These investors are able to use this performance analysis to get a picture of which funds are performing the strongest and – in turn – use the information to help them decide which funds they want to invest in.

So how does it all work?

If an investor decides he or she wants to invest $10,000 in a particular fund that’s been created and managed/tracked using Nousplatform technology, they need to buy equity in that fund. The idea is that, as the fund value increases, the value of the equity stake they have in the fund in question will increase in parallel.

When they want to cash out, they sell their equity stake and the profit they generate is the difference between the price they paid for the stake initially and the price for which they sell the stake at closure point.

Which is where the ongoing ICO comes into the equation.

When investors take part in the ICO, they are buying Nousplatform tokens with the ETH they transfer to the ICO wallet. These tokens are called NST and they are what investors will need to use to purchase a stake in any of the funds set up on the platform by the fund managers that use it.

So, when the platform is live, investors in the ICO can either use the NST they own to acquire stakes in various funds or, alternatively, hold onto the NST in anticipation of the token rising in value over time, with this rise in value rooted in the growth in open market demand for NST tokens as the platform expands and more and more investors buy NST and, in turn, exchange it for a stake in a fund.

In addition to the NST they receive on participation in the ICO, participants will also gain a stake in two funds that Nousplatform is setting up at the launch of its blockchain-based technology. One fund will revolve around cryptocurrency and another will be rooted in real estate and, assuming the predetermined caps are reached during the ICO, 15% of the former and 15% of the latter will be allocated to ICO token holders.

So how can you gain an early exposure to this one?

The company is currently conducting an ICO pre-sale, as part of which participants can pick up a 20% bonus on the NST tokens they receive. 1 ETH will return 8000 NST at the current price.

As always, it’s worth checking out the whitepaper before committing and it’s available here.

There’s also a light paper here for anyone looking for a quick introduction to Nousplatform.

You can take part in the ICO here.

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