Golding Capital Partners has established principles for the management of conflicts of interest, which specify the circumstances under which conflicts of interest may arise that may cause considerable damage to interests of the funds and their investors as well as the interests of the other clients – in short, the clients interests – and the measures taken to manage these conflicts of interest.
Golding Capital Partners has identified situations in which conflicts of interest between the company including its managers, employees and persons or companies directly or indirectly related to the company on the one hand and the customers clients on the other hand as well as between clients arise or could arise and which adversely affect the interests of the funds managed by Golding Capital Partners and their investors.
Conflicts of interest may particularly be caused by the following:
Golding Capital Partners GmbH has taken adequate arrangements to identify conflicts of interest and to ensure, with reasonable confidence, that risks of damage to the interests of the Golding funds and their investors are prevented. The arrangements ensure that employees can appropriately carry out activities in which conflicts of interest arise and could affect the interests of clients. Golding Capital Partners GmbH expects its employees to endeavor to avoid conflicts of interest on a case-by-case basis and to always perform their financial services with due regard for client interests.
In particular, Golding Capital Partners GmbH has taken the following arrangements:
Golding Capital Partners discloses the nature and origin of the conflicts of interest to the customers insofar as the arragements taken are not sufficient to ensure, with reasonable confidence, to avoid the risks of damage to the interests of the funds managed by Golding Capital Partners and their investors. The disclosure is meant to enable the clients to take a decision on an informed basis.
In the following cases, organizational arrangements taken might be not sufficient to ensure, with reasonable confidence, that conflicts of interests are managed to the full extent: