By Taimour Zaman, Founder, AltFunds Global Banks issued $2.3 trillion in standby letters of credit globally in 2024. Yet most accredited investors barely understand what they are. That's a missed opportunity. Standby letters of credit (SBLCs) aren't just banking...

By Taimour Zaman, Founder, AltFunds Global The traditional lending playbook is getting rewritten. And accredited investors are paying attention. Banks have tightened their purse strings since 2022. Small businesses face rejection rates above 80% for conventional...

Let's be honest. In the world of high finance, "structured finance" is one of those terms that gets thrown around a lot—often to make something sound sophisticated and exclusive. But for accredited investors and Swiss family offices, it’s not just jargon. It’s a...

By Taimour Zaman ZÜRICH – Your financial sophistication is being used against you. Criminal networks are now deploying highly advanced fake trading platforms meticulously designed to mimic the exclusive, complex world of alternative investments that accredited...

By Taimour Zaman ZÜRICH – Volatility. Inflation. Compressed yields. If your portfolio feels hostage to the whims of the public market, you're not alone. For Switzerland's accredited investors and family offices, the traditional 60/40 portfolio is no longer suitable....

ZÜRICH – Inflation is biting. Market volatility is eroding gains. For Switzerland's accredited investors and family offices, the traditional playbook is broken. The quest for superior, risk-adjusted returns has led the smartest capital to a powerful solution: Zurich's...

By Taimour Zaman ZURICH – Let's be direct. If you're an accredited investor in Switzerland, your traditional portfolio is likely failing you. Bonds yield paltry returns, and public equities swing on the whims of global sentiment. The quest for stable, high alpha and...

By Taimour Zaman, Founder of AltFunds Global Fraud is as old as money itself. The faces change—from Charles Ponzi a century ago to Sam Bankman-Fried today—but the mechanics remain eerily familiar. Fraudsters thrive on the same weaknesses: urgency, ego, fear, and our...

What Philip R. Wood and Richard Werner can teach us about U.S. commercial real estate and China’s shadow banking collapse By Taimour Zaman, Founder of AltFunds Global Why Start Here? Walk through downtown Washington, D.C., or Boston today and you’ll see a new kind of...