Verve Financial Services: http://www.vfs-sl.com/ is operational and is expanding our services.
For anyone who has L$ income that they would like to invest into the virtual stock markets and publicly traded companies of Second Life, now there is an option that does not require you to watch the markets and spend your valuable time evaluating and checking out these various companies to try to determine which are safe to invest into and which are scams (as is always a risk in SL). We do this for you with our investment products.
We operate Verve Financial Services with the same principles, financial analysis, ethics, and self-discipline that real-life investment and financial advisory firms utilize to maximize returns and minimize risks. While no investment is completely 100% safe, we evaluate the risks and rewards and invest based on our customers risk tolerance and goals to try to provide a diversified and relatively safe mix of investments. We operate ETF's (Exchange Traded Funds), UIT's (Unit Investment Trusts), MF's (Mutual Funds), as well as managing individual investment accounts. We also have business and financial consulting services available. Our investment products mentioned above are offered with a variety of themes and management styles to meet the needs of nearly any virtual investor, from income generation (via investing into high-dividend returning companies) to value growth via investing into fast growing and game-changing companies who strive to change the rules by which the business world within SL operates under and in the process tread new and fertile markets or services. We also charge much lower fees that any other investment mangement firm that operates in SL (by an entire order of magnatude, as in 0.2% to 4% as a max for our products as opposed to 2-30% for most other investment management firms. Our consulting services cover accounting, busienss startup and formation, financing for new ventures, setup of publicly traded companies (those that are set up to trade on the virtual stock exchanges), management issues solved, as well as the creation of business plans and structures.
The company is managed by someone who has a real-life education in financial analysis as well as fairly extensive investment experience (with a fantastic real-life success rate over the past 27 years), as well as an entrepreneurial spirit that has launched several real-world and virtual world businesses over the years. We strive to ensure that investments are made only in publicly traded companies that utilize a level of transparency and ethics that provide for relatively safe and viable investments. We actively invest in all of the viable and ethical stock exchanges that operate within the SL virtual economy (ACE, SLCAPEX, ISE, and VSTEX). However it must be noted that we do not and will not invest into any company trading on WSE, due to the unethical nature and rules that WSE operates under and the massive number of avatars that have been taken advantage of by the WSE management, as well as due to their changing (with no advance notice of such a change until those who had already invested with them were at their mercy) to a made-up currency system that makes it that much easier for them to scam funds from the SL investing public.
So check out our web site above or visit our offices (our catamaran, currently located at the north-west corner of the Venture Square sim). Or if you have any questions, contact Redd Oconnell via IM in-world or via email at [email]ReddOconnell@gmail.com[/email]