"Our commitment is to collaborate with you, introducing you to interesting investment opportunities. This strategic initiative aims to diversify your investors risk, elevate your status with your clients and last but not least grow your AUM as clients will most likely top up their portfolios after investing in successful products."
Stefan Gustafsson
Co-founder & CEO
About Us
Established in 2013, Tier 1 Investment Solutions serves as the vital link connecting your investors with niche and specialized investment funds. Besides walking the traditional paths of investor meetings, conferences and spreading fact sheets, we stand out by integrating a cutting-edge digital growth program that leverages the power of social media, podcasts, and other digital assets. This program is designed to make your job easier to identify a good investment opportunity and also help inform the end investor. Our employees and partners all come from different backgrounds, each with their own experience and expertise to add great value to the team.
We have a well-diversified team with a background in fund management, institutional sales, asset management, derivative trading, operations, commodities, private equity, structured products, web design, IT Support and social media. This nice blend of expertise will give us a strong base to understand and service our clients in the best way possible. With our more then 50 years’ combined experience of the international capital raising and investment management sector, we make a very good team.
Our Mission
At Tier 1 Investment Solutions, our mission is to cultivate meaningful connections between financial professionals and specialized investment funds. We employ a multifaceted approach, blending personalized meetings with innovative digital outreach through channels such as social media and podcasts. This comprehensive strategy not only amplifies investment opportunities but also provides crucial support and exposure to funds. By streamlining the investment process, we enable our clients to focus on efficiently achieving their investment objectives.
Why Choose Us
We provide high quality investment funds to the investment management industry. We are specializing on niche funds that in turn will make advisors stand out from the crowd offering something unique to the final investors.
We have an active follow-up on everything relating to fund perfomance, news and important updates. With us you´ll have a personal advisor to turn to if you have any questions or need any assistance.
We offer a modern, high quality, easy to understand service. We will create and distribute pdfs, animated videos and other marketing material to make it easy to understand the investment funds objectives and core strategy.
Fund Selection Process
We carry out a in depth screening of a large universe of fund managenrs before we engage with the funds. We analyze each management company and each fund considering the following;
Uniquness of the fund or strategy
We aim to offer something different to our clients, that’s why we target specialized funds with a unique underlying strategy or an outstanding track record. We then utilize an institutional grade due diligence process to narrow down the final list of managers. It is our objective to partner with funds that have clearly defined investment strategies, internal risk controls and a strong management team.
Track record of the fund manager
It’s in our interest to present well performing funds to our clients. That’s why track record, with good key ratios is very important in our final decision to partner with a fund. Also that the fund have the probability to perform well considering the economic climate and future expectations.
Fund company sizes and background history
We don’t mind representing smaller funds as long as they have a good track record and an infrastructure to coup with the increase in the AUM we can offer. Many of the small funds are run by the founders and we review their organization, quality of the staff members, experience and reputation to make sure our partnership will be a success.
Meet The Tier1 Team
Stefan Gustafsson
Co-founder & CEO
For over two decades in the investment management sector, Stefan has been co-founding and managing successful investment firms that offer HNWI and institutional clients high-quality and diversified solutions across asset classes, including alternative investments, structured products, Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds, fixed income and private placements. Stefan was running his own Asset Management business before he started Tier 1 in 2013. Stefan sold his Asset Management business in 2017 to focus on bringing high quality investments to the institutional market.
Stefan has a proven track record of raising funds, executing private placements, distributing funds and developing marketing strategies for various investment companies and funds.
Henrik Gustafsson
Chief Technical Officer
Henrik started his own IT company in Sweden at a young age, helping small companies with their overall IT needs. Creating websites, setting up online shops, CRM systems and regular IT support. Henrik has been with Tier1 since the start in 2013 and is responsable for the company’s IT structure and making sure everything runs smoothly. He’s also taking care of our back office and CRM system to keep track of our clients, the investments, and day to day tasks of updating the website.