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WHY ROC IS INDEPENDENT
NO RETROCESSIONS > NO NEGATIVE INCENTIVES
Accepting retrocessions1 by wealth managers create incentives, which can impair their
investment behaviour. Although this fact is widely known and criticized, retrocessions
are still common in the banking and wealth management industry. In contrast to many
external wealth managers and banks, ROC therefore does not accept any kind of retrocessions.
Offered rebates or trailer fees are credited in full to our clients. Our compensation
is completely transparent and comes exclusively from our clients. Only if we grow
your assets, we can grow our earnings. Thus, quality, superior performance and low
costs are the only deciding criteria in our investment decision process. Your success
is our success!
NO OWN INVESTMENT PRODUCTS > SELECT THE BEST
Mixing the manufacturing of investment products and financial advice is known as
another breeding ground for conflict of interests. The tendency to prefer own to
potentially better third party products (because of higher profit margins), can impair
the client’s investment performance. For this reason ROC abstains from production
of own products. Furthermore we are not bound to the products or services of any
institution or partner and are therefore in a privileged position to objectively
select the best financial asset by considering the whole universe of investment instrument.
NO THIRD PARTY SHAREHOLDERS > NO THIRD PARTY INTERESTS
ROC is neither controlled nor owned by any third party shareholders. ROC is solely
owned and managed by its operatively engaged partners. With this structure any conflicts
of interest shall be avoided and the entrepreneurial spirit, long-term thinking as
well as the focus on our clients’ interests shall be assured.
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1 Retrocessions are revenue based kickbacks of banks and investment product providers
to wealth managers. Thereby banks and product companies pay a portion of their generated
commission income for instance from securities-/foreign exchange transactions or
for the sale of financial products (trailer fees) to the ordering wealth manager.
Thus, retrocessions create incentives for wealth managers, which can lead to excessive
trading or to investing in “expensive” but low-performing investment products. This
all at the cost of the client’s investment performance.