A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund is the world’s first open-end unit investment fund which channels unit holders’ money to nuclear power companies. The Fund investment policy is built on the principles of diversity considering all components of nuclear fuel cycle (NFC).

The entity was registered May 10, 2007 in accordance with the legislation of the Principality of Liechtenstein as an open-end investment fund having the legal status of a collective trust. The Fund’s management company is the IFM Independent Fund Management with Headquarters in the city of Vaduz, Lichtenstein. The company manages about 2 billion Swiss francs (US$1.6bn) of total assets. The Fund custodian bank is the Liechtensteinische Landesbank (LLB) which is one of the largest banks in Switzerland/Lichtenstein zone featuring assets of 15 billion Swiss francs (about US$12bn).

The A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund’s portfolio is managed by an international expert team who are specialist in nuclear power and asset management. Portfolio Managers are Andrey Cherkasenko (Moscow) and Daniel Gonzenbach, a partner of management company Holinger Asset Management (Zurich). The Fund is benefiting from having on board well-known international experts such as Michael Connor, a leading analyst of the world’s uranium market and President of the Nuclear Resources International consulting company (USA), Franz Hoop, the former Ambassador of the Principality of Liechtenstein to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) etc.

The A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund’s activities are regulated by Directives UCITS III which set forth stringent rules regarding the fund asset structure, provide an additional guarantee for the unitholders’ funds’ securities and free circulation of units within the European economic zone.

The Fund strategy is to invest unitholders’ funds in securities of the companies that represent various sectors of nuclear power, namely, NFC, nuclear power machine engineering, engineering, servicing and infrastructure companies. This advantage distinguishes A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund from other investment funds channeling funds to buy physical stocks of uranium or stock of uranium companies. The said “uranium” funds are still either range or closed-end ones.

Considering the current situation in the world nuclear power market, the sector “Exploration, Mining and Processing of Uranium Ore” has maximum weight in the A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund’s portfolio. The assets portfolio comprises securities of companies of different nations with prevailing Canadian and Australian files.

The Fund’s consultants apply various analysis methodologies to different assets. Since uranium companies dominate at the initial stage of the Fund’s operations, the team employs experts in natural resources exploration and development. The Fund strategy covers 10 to 15 years and foresees gradual reduction of the uranium mining sector of the portfolio with a shift to other NFC components.

The A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund can be of interest of target investors (eg. industry professionals), institutional investors and financial institutes which manage assets through diversification (e.g. fund of funds). The Fund may be found attractive by common investors since the minimum subscription is 10 units or US$1,000.

The A.C. Nuclear Opportunities Fund is designed to benefit and capitalize through investing in as environmentally friendly, affordable and cost competitive energy source as Nuclear Power.