As first half of 2025 comes to a close, it is important to review where we stand and where we go from here.
Announcing Jun 2025 dividend 1.7% (20.5%)
- Consistent dividend (20.5%) - For 2025, we have been consistently distributing 1.7% per month which we are on track for our target 20.5% per year.
- Comparing to top hedge funds in the world: For first half 2025, the top hedge funds in the world return around 7-18% in the last 6 months.
Distributing 10.25% in dividend would place us at the same level as Renaissance as well (10.7%).
While the portfolio and business may fluctuate, we are able to shelter investors from the volatility by distributing regular dividend.
- Tuition sign up revenue $78K (compare to last year $29K) for Jun 2025: We are very close to breaking the $100K per month mark. We still have some work to do in terms of optimization and conversion.
- Hedge fund progress - drafting key documents: After discussing with both the US and Canadian lawyers, it would be more straight forward to first set up the US hedge fund in 2026.
Once we scale the fund to 80 people or $80 million, then we would build the Canadian fund.
Currently, we have a working draft of Policy and Procedure Manual along with Business Plan in place for regulatory approval.
Once we get the relevant licenses, then we will proceed to set up the investment management company.
We will use Interactive Brokers as the Prime Broker and SGGG as the fund administrator as it serves both US and Canadian funds
- Raised $4.2M so far: Fundraising progress has been doing well. Early investor reward structure is doing well. Most investors is interested in getting extra 2% return for the first year if they invest $250K with their IRA account.
Investing $250K = 20.5% + 2% in the first year (22.5% for the first year - paid at the end of 12 months)
Investing $500K = 20.5% + 2% + Free Investing Accelerator membership
If you use your Roth IRA or IRA, your dividends will be tax free (or tax delay)
I strongly recommend people in the US to use their Roth IRA for this investment. You can look into something called Megabackdoor Roth IRA contribution to put more money into your Roth IRA. Given the success of such structure, we will likely create a similar variation of the structure for the fund.
- Improving on execution: Internally, we refined tracking tools and the AI to further enhance our investment return and consistency. Based on the testing results, we should be able to hit 20.5% dividend distribution every single quarter. Now, it is just a matter of executing consistently to get the model return.
Here's the investor presentation. You will need to be an accredited investor (either income $200K+ OR net asset $1M+ excluding your home)
Cheers,
Eric
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Eric Seto, CPA, CIM