Nordic Factoring Fund
Nordic Factoring Fund offers a unique fund product for private investors. Through an investment in the fund, the unit owner is exposed to the Nordic market for factoring loans. The fund's goal is to generate an annual return of 7 to 9 percent at a low market risk. At the same time, the correlation with other asset classes is expected to be low to nonexistent. Thus, the fund serves as an important building block in a well-diversified portfolio.
What is factoring?
- Factoring is a service traditionally offered by banks and finance companies. The service means that companies sell or lend their invoices with these operators as a counterparty
- The factoring industry is a fast-growing and profitable industry that offers many companies new ways to finance their working capital. Factoring companies offer alternatives to traditional bank loans, with the important difference that factoring does not affect the company's balance sheet
- Traditional bank financing requires collateral in the form of real estate mortgages or guarantees. In factoring, the acquired invoices provide security
- Bank financing is usually linked to so-called covenants, which can be translated as a requirement formulated as a financial key figure or other financial or non-financial measure that is set as a condition by a bank when issuing a credit. Factoring requires no covenants
About the Nordic Factoring Fund
- NFF offers a unique mutual fund product for private investors
- The fund provides exposure to the Nordic market for corporate loans via factoring
- Factoring offers an interesting alternative for those who want an alternative exposure to the credit market. Factoring market has historically been dominated by banks and financial institutions but opened up to new players in the light of new regulation
- NFF enters into factoring agreements with small and medium-sized business customers. The payment terms of the invoices are normally 30 to 60 days and a maximum of 120 days
- The portfolio is insured for credit (95) & #8211; up to about 99 percent
- The fund aims to offer a return of 7 to 9 percent at a risk, expressed as an annual standard deviation, of less than 2 percent
- The co-variation with traditional asset classes is expected to be low to nonexistent, which means that the fund should be seen as an important building block in a well-diversified portfolio.
This is how the fund generates returns in five steps
- The investor buys the fund
- The fund has agreements with a number of operators or factoring companies that are financed through the invested capital
- The factoring companies purchase invoices from companies approved by the fund via factoring
- The invoices are pledged in the Fund's name and serve as collateral
- The factoring companies ensure that the invoices are paid by the companies to which the invoices are issued and the fund receives interest on the invested capital, which is translated into return for the investor
Who can invest?
Anyone who has a custodian account or VP account via Bank or Fund Commissioner can invest in Profit Sharing Loans, as these are listed on NGM (Nordic Growth Market).
Profit-sharing loans can also be a type of asset in a custodian insurance (equity or pension insurance) or investment savings account (ISK). When investing via custodian insurance or ISK, it should be contacted beforehand with your Försäkringbolaget or your Bank / Fund Commissioner if possible.
Anyone who has a custodian account or VP account via Bank or Fund Commissioner can invest in Profit Sharing Loans, as these are listed on NGM (Nordic Growth Market).
Profit-share loans can also be an asset class in a custodian insurance (occupational pension or equity insurance). When investing through custody insurance, you should contact your insurance company before investing to ensure that this is possible.
Anyone who manages discretionary management assignments can invest in Profit Sharing Loans, as these are listed on NGM (Nordic Growth Market).
Professional investors can invest in Profit Sharing Loans if current legislation and management mandates allow. Contact Kreditfonden for more information.
Risks
All investments are associated with risks and historical returns are no guarantee of future returns. The funds invested in the Nordic Factoring Fund can both increase and decrease in value, and it is not certain that the investor in the Nordic Factoring Fund will recover the entire invested capital. Below we list the risks associated with an investment in the fund. Before investing, the information brochure and prospectus should be read in full.
2020-02-25 | 2020-02-27 | 2020-03-02 |
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Current subscription dates
LAST SUBSCRIPTION DATE
LAST DAY FOR CASH DEPOSITS
SUBSCRIPTION DATE
Issues a maximum of SEK 100,000,000
2020-08-31 | 2021-01-04 | 2021-01-14 |
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Current withdrawal dates
REDEMPTION FORM TO US
SETTLEMENT DATE
WHEN PAYMENT IS MADE
Fund Performance
MONTHLY PERFORMANCE IN % NET OF FEES
Year | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual return |
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| 2020 | 0,38 | 0,38% | |||||||||||
| NAV | 100,38 | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | 0,68 | 0,59 | 0,65 | 0,29 | 0,3 | 0,35 | 2,86% | ||||||
| NAV | 100,00 | 100,68 | 101,27 | 101,92 | 102,21 | 102,51 | 102,86 |
Monthly reports
| Month | Report |
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| January 2020 | Nordic Factoring Fund - January 2020 (+0.38) |
Financial Calendar
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2020-04-29
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2020-04-29
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2020-02-21
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2019-08-30
Press Releases
Document
Before investing in the Nordic Factoring Fund, it is important that you read the written material about the fund in order to make an informed decision. It is important that you understand the risks of the fund as well as how it operates. Therefore, you should carefully read the fund brochure, the basic fact sheet as well as the prospectus and its additions. You will find all relevant documents here:
- Basic fact sheet KIID Nordic Factoring Fund AB
- Supplementary prospectus Nordic Factoring Fund AB
- Finansinspektionen's approval of supplementary prospectus for Nordic Factoring Fund AB
- Basic prospectus Nordic Factoring Fund AB
- Finansinspektionen's approval of basic prospectus for Nordic Factoring Fund AB, DNR 18-24804
- Finansinspektionen's certificate of passport of the basic prospectus and its supplementary prospectus, Dnr 19-899 to Norway and Finland
- IFRS 9 Regulations
- IFRS 9 New accounting principles
- Information brochure NFF
Fund Management Principles
Investment Process
The investment objects are approved by an investment committee after a well-developed credit process. The Fund strives to consistently engage with borrowers whose expected return is attractive in relation to the credit risk that the commitment entails. The individual commitments are weighed against each other in order to achieve an efficiently balanced credit risk for the fund as a whole. The investment objects have a low correlation with other markets and the risk in the fund should primarily be driven by credit risk and return for the fund as a whole.
Direct lending to companies
The fund's lending objects are primarily found throughout Scandinavia and are aimed at companies that are in some form of expansion, investment, refinancing, restructuring, generational financing, seasonal or other needs.
Fund shares
The Fund may, on a selective basis, invest funds in fund units in similar funds without geographical limitation.
Derivative
The fund has the opportunity to use derivative instruments, partly to reduce such undesirable risks and partly to obtain exposures that are deemed attractive to the fund and its risk profile.
Interest-bearing instruments
The fund can invest liquidity in bonds.
Deposits to bank
The fund may place liquidity with credit institutions after a credit check.
Profit Sharing Interest
The Nordic Factoring Fund's return (annual profit share rate) will be converted into new profit share loans to the profit share loan holders. For each financial year, the Fund shall determine the Profit Share Rate for the management of the Investment Portfolio in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Profit share interest accruing to the Profit Share Loan holders shall be made on the Interest Maturity Date by issuing additional Profit Share Loans. The profit share rate shall be rounded down to the nearest krona and rounded off at the custodian institution level.
On January 13, the rate will be reduced to 100.00 after booking the Profit Share Rate and the new nominal amount for the Profit Loan should be shown in the respective custody account on January 23.
Important! This means that during the period from January 13 until the custodian institution has issued the new Profit Sharing Loans, there appears to be a negative return on the deposit.
How can the Profit Share Rate and Value be calculated?
Example 1
Investment in the fund was made on 1 February 2017
Invested capital SEK 100,000 at NAV rate 100.43. It gives a nominal SEK 99,500 (100,000 / 1,0043 = 99,571, which is rounded to 99,500)
The value of the investment on 1 February 2017 was SEK 99,927 (99,500 * 1,0043).
The NAV rate on January 2, 2018 is 108.13 before the issue of Profit Share Interest.
The value of the investment on January 2, 2018 was SEK 107,589 (99,500 * 1,0813).
The return (Profit share interest) is paid to the investor in the form of new profit share loans, giving the total nominal amount SEK 107,589 *)
New NAV rate 10/1 2018 is 100.00 after the issue of Profit Share Interest
The value of the holding after the issue of new profit share loans will then be SEK 107,589 (107,589 * 1,0000)
Example 2
Investment in the fund was made on July 3, 2017
Invested capital SEK 100,000 at NAV price 104.08. It gives a nominal SEK 96,000 (100,000 / 1,0408 = 96,079, which is rounded to 96,000).
The value of the investment on July 3, 2017 was SEK 99,916 (96,000 * 1,0408)
The NAV rate on January 2, 2018 is 108.13 before the issue of Profit Share Interest.
The value of the investment on January 2, 2018 was SEK 103,804 (96,000 * 1.0813).
The return (Profit share interest) is paid to the investor in the form of new profit share loans, which gives the total nominal amount SEK 103,804 *)
New NAV rate 10/1 2018 is 100.00 after the issue of Profit Share Interest
The value of the holding after the issue of new Profit Shares will then be SEK 103,804 (103,804 * 1,0000)
*) As rounding of the Profit Share Rate occurs at the custodian level, the new nominal amount may vary from these examples.
Note that after the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority's approval of the AIF Fund's addition to the prospectus in December 2017, the nominal amount has changed from SEK 100 to SEK 1.
Traded Markets
The main activity of the Fund is to provide loan capital to small and medium-sized companies with funds that influence the offer through this prospectus. The fund's lending objects are primarily found in Scandinavia. The fund may also invest on a selective basis in fund units in similar funds or through co-financing with national or international partners without geographical limitation. Through this, the fund intends to create an investment that has lower risk than equities and better return potential than traditional fixed income investments.
Management Fee
Management fees are paid partly in the form of a fixed remuneration and partly in the form of a profit-sharing remuneration.
The fixed remuneration amounts to 1.6 per cent per year. The fixed remuneration is paid quarterly.
Profit sharing amounts to 20 percent of the fund's value increase in addition to the average return on 3-month government debt bills after the "high watermark". High watermark means that the fund only pays performance-based fees after any sub-return from previous periods has been compensated. The earnings-based remuneration is paid annually.
Commissions, clearing fees and other transaction costs attributable to the Fund's investments are paid on an ongoing basis by the Fund.
Redemption
Sales and redemption of profit share loans are made on the first banking day of each month.
Notification must be made on a special form. (Subscription can be made for 4 banking days before each change of month, February to December, not January)
You can also subscribe with BankID via mangold.se/emission/teckning
The minimum amount for subscription is SEK 100,000.
Request for redemption
The request for redemption must be made by the Issuer no later than four (4) months before the end of the year, ie no later than September 1, before the Banking Day for which the redemption is requested. However, investors who have requested redemption within the prescribed time have the right to cancel (withdraw) their notification of redemption by 1 October. However, the redemption request can only be withdrawn if the Issuer allows it.
The request for redemption at another time may be submitted to the Board and granted, provided that it is possible to match the withdrawal with a new deposit at the next monthly change.
Redemption takes place at the NAV rate that is determined at the end of the calendar year closest to the redemption date. The profit share loans shall be redeemed on request on the seventh (7) Banking day following the Redemption Day. The redemption amount must be paid in cash to Investors who have requested redemption.