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Global founders and insightful project developers now finally achieve predictable efficient financing, fully bank-guaranteed–delivering debt-free and equity-dilution-free funding–while growth investors get pure bank-secured capital enhancement

The financial world is full of noise. Market volatility, speculative hype, and endless complexity. But beneath that surface lies a quiet, structured reality—one that most investors never see. A reality built not on risk, but on precision. Not on speculation, but on contractual certainty.

This is the world of “riskless principal” trades as defined in the 1993, Federal Reserve Bulletin. A world where banks execute arbitrage-driven buy-sell contracts under central bank licensed traders instructions, not to chase profit, but to fulfil underlying project funding mandates. All rationally achieved without credit, project or market risk to the pledged principal funds. Where capital moves not through markets, but through global top-25 bank instruments. And where returns are not hoped for—they’re contractually guaranteed, but due to CAM’s reimagined, modernised and bank-securely enhanced structuring, our resulting extreme outsized returns are contractually bank-guaranteed, which even by the standards of this already rarefied private financial market, stands out as a ground-breaking offering.

These transactions are not new. They’ve existed as a well-established integrated part of the global banking system for the past 81 years, quietly powering sovereign portfolios, institutional mandates, and structured funding programs. But they’ve remained largely invisible to retail and mid-tier investors. At least thar is, until now.

Meaning subscribing visionary founders and project developers can now intelligently deploy their resulting proceeds to predictably fund their most audacious business ventures and construction projects debt-free and equity-dilution-free, while growth investors simply capture and keep their resulting extreme outsized returns, as a form of pure bank-secured capital enhancement. All sensibly achieved for both founders and growth investors alike, without their exposure to any of the normally associated project, credit or market risk.

CAM’s syndicated alternative funding transaction is built on this foundation and designed to give decerning global investors exposure to the extreme outsized returns only possible within this bank-regulated private financial market, (as opposed to and entirely separate from risk-driven securities-regulated markets). It’s not a fund. It’s not a start-up. It’s a highly structured deployment of capital into a bank-managed, principal and profit bank-guaranteed transaction. The returns are fixed. The funding disbursements are bank-contracted. And the escrow security is UK sovereign-grade AA-rated, matching that of the global Tier-1 AA-rated guarantor-transaction bank.

Mistriggered False-Positive Disbelief Bias

But let’s address the elephant in the room. The subconscious disbelief cognitive bias our human brain is innately subject to. The reflexive scepticism that says, “This can’t be real.” Because we’ve all been conditioned for 81 years, due to our investment literacy being limited to market-driven investments, to view high returns as high risk. To believe that anything offering a 3,911% ROI must be a scam, a Ponzi scheme, or a fantasy.

Dodging the ‘Investment’-Imposter-Yield Loss Trap

What if the scenario you’re looking at and potentially misperceiving as a market-driven ‘investment’ (in air quotes), was in fact an ‘investment’-imposter, precisely because by reviewing its very different structuring it soon becomes observably self-evident that this is certainly not an investment at all. But rather, it’s an off-market, off-Exchange, bank-regulated private placement contract, that under a bank-managed principal and funding-profit bank-guaranteed financing contract is disbursing monthly principal-matched funding disbursements, that by CAM not making any withdrawals results in a monthly compounding effect so magnifying CAM’s returns.

And so to be properly understood this transaction requires a gentle but crucial mind-set adjustment, to recognise that if you do misperceive this transaction to be any kind of ‘investment’, means you’re confusing this ‘investment’-imposter, with being a bank-endorsed funding contract that is a bank-regulated transaction. So making it an entirely different animal to those transactions involving the trading of registered securities, which is why they are protectively regulated by securities regulators.

But here, due to its radically different non-market-correlated structuring and its extreme risk-mitigation, means even just a cursory review soon reveals it not to be any kind of ‘investment’ at all, so it’s extreme outsized returns can’t be judged by normal market-driven return on investment benchmarks, precisely because it’s being misperceived as being something it’s not. So this transaction can more memorably framed being an ‘investment’-imposter, as opposed to being an actual investment. So to readily grasp this concept, just keep this striking ‘investment’-imposter mental image in your mind as an amusing memory jogger of what it is that you’re really looking at.

Our disbelief bias conditioning is powerful. It’s primal. It’s protective. But when improperly triggered due to a lack of contextual knowledge, this easily resolved knowledge-gap is literally costing you a 1-year 4-digit yield loss due to missing the proper historical, legal, regulatory and economic context that calmly, unapologetically and rationally enables such extreme outsized returns to be achieved. But only when placed within it’s proper foundational context can it counter disbelief bias when inappropriately triggered as a false positive.

Structured Finance: Bank-Securely Reimagined

In the world of structured finance, returns are not a function of market performance. They’re a function of, bank contracted funding disbursements derived from riskless principal trades, meaning no buy-sell occurs, unless there is a pre-contracted exit buyer in place that has agreed to pay a fixed higher price for the global top-25 bank instrument being traded, before the transaction even begins, so locking-in a pre-determined guaranteed profit per trade. The difference between the buy and sell price is the profit per trade that is multiplied by the number of such trades being executed per month, with the resulting returns always based on the principal pledged amount which is €/$100M.

These funding trades are executed consecutively for the 10-month contract term, so delivering compounding monthly funding returns if no monthly withdrawals are made, to in this financially efficient way providing what (by risk-driven investment standards), presents to the context-free eye as extreme outsized returns, but this perception misses the crucial fact that these proceeds are actually just bank funding disbursements (as opposed to any kind of risk-driven business venture profits), so when conducted under a principal and profit bank-guaranteed funding contract that CAM executes with it’s global Tier-1 AA-rated transaction bank.

And when this bank funding contract is bank-managed (meaning these riskless principal trades are executed by bank-employed trade officers), with funds blocked under CAM’s sole signatory control in a transaction account held on a fully bank responsible non-depletion basis, where CAM’s funds are never spent, transferred, and serve merely as the mandatory bank-regulatory proof of funds that are never subject to lien.

Plus, prior to all of this, the transaction kicks off with CAM’s syndicated capital raise being trigger point-protected, under a UK FCA licensed and regulated third-party managed escrow-paymaster account, that strategically delivers to CAM’s subscribing global investors the lowest risk escrow protocol in the world, because all syndicated funds are robustly secured in sovereign-grade escrow custody at the Bank of England—so when judiciously analysed under these highly structured conditions the risk profile changes entirely.

CAM’s transaction is executed by a global Tier-1 AA-rated bank ranked in the worlds-top-25 by market capitalization. The principal is held in escrow. The profit is guaranteed by the bank itself. And the entire structure is designed to deliver two disbursements: one at Month 7.5, and the final exit strategy disbursement at Month 12. The first delivers 2,911% ROI. The second delivers 1,000%. Total: 3,911%. No equity. No profit sharing. No residual interest.

So How do Investors Participate?

There are two routes. Both streamlined. Both legally grounded:

Route one: the Gibraltar Limited Liability Partnership. Designed for UK and EU Qualified Investors, this structure is governed by CAM as the LLP’s Managing Partner. Investors subscribe using cash—GBP only. No crypto. No complexity. Just a clean, cash-based entry into the transaction.

Funds are deposited into a GBP-denominated escrow account at the Bank of England. The independent third-party managed escrow is managed by a UK FCA licensed paymaster/escrow agent. The capital is held securely, released only upon trigger-point conditions being met, and tracked through a full audit trail. It’s sovereign-grade custody—transparent, defensible, and built for institutional confidence.

Route two: the Wyoming Series LLC Smart Company. This isn’t just an investment vehicle—it’s issuing your equity stake in CAM as a security token whose governance is built on the blockchain making your equity stake in CAM publicly trackable, and legally compliant because this digital share certificate follows US securities law and is recognized under U.S. state law as a security. Investors onboard using cash or crypto—Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, or USDC. And they receive their security token that’s not just digital, but legally compliant.

This isn’t an ICO. It’s not a speculative coin. It’s a digital share certificate with the same legal force as a paper one—recognized under Wyoming law as a valid representation of ownership. It’s securities law, modernized.

Each investor’s stake is recorded immutably on-chain. No dilution. No voting rights. Just a fixed contractual disbursement—delivered with precision.

To more precisely clarify the nature of the investor’s position in the Wyoming Series LLC Smart Company route. Specifically:

• No dilution means that once an investor’s stake is recorded (via the digital share certificate/security token), it is not subject to reduction or erosion through future issuance of additional shares or tokens. Their entitlement to the fixed disbursement remains intact and unaffected by any future capital raises or changes in ownership structure.

• No voting rights means that the investor’s participation is purely contractual and financial—they are not granted governance power, decision-making authority, or influence over the entity’s operations. This reinforces the passive, non-traditional quasi-equity nature of the ‘investment’ given that in reality this is a bank regulated and bank-managed project funding contract.

Accordingly, this is not an traditionally structured equity stake. Rather, it’s a fixed contractual entitlement. You’re not exposed to dilution, nor are you expected to participate in governance, as returns not derived from any kind of risk-driven business venture.

The onboarding process is simple. Investors select their route. Complete the subscription agreement. Transfer funds to escrow. And receive confirmation of their participation. The transaction begins and the clock starts upon the bank-managed and bank-guaranteed funding contract being signed by CAM the Managing Member. And the two-scheduled bank-endorsed funding disbursements (representing your extreme outsized ROI) are delivered.

But this isn’t just about returns. It’s about structure. It’s about clarity. It’s about offering investors a pathway into a world that’s been hidden in plain sight for decades, but which due to conditioning, most, miss.

CAM’s alternative funding model is built on 14 core benefits. Benefits that set it apart from funds, start-ups, and speculative ventures.

14 Compelling Benefits That Set Us Apart:

1. Principal and profit returns contractually bank-guaranteed
2. A 1-year market-independent 39.11X ROI, representing a 3,911% ROI
3. Perfect for pure capital enhancement
4. Debt and equity-dilution-free funding without project, credit or market risk
5. Zero risk of principal loss
6. Global Accredited Investors equity stake is via a US compliant security token
7. Transparent self-custody of your US state law-recognised security token
8. Lead investors de-risk their deal flow via their outsized bank secured ROI
9. Founders sponsors recycle and redeploy rather than risk capital loss exposure
10. Charities/impact investors recycle and redeploy rather than risk capital loss
11. Deployed by fund managers as a white label alternative investment strategy
12. Is an Autumn years income enhancement for financially savvy seniors
13. A profit-sharing algorithm/ad-sponsor-free funding solution for YouTubers
14: Funds securely syndicated under sovereign-grade escrow at the Bank of England

This is not a pitch. It’s a reveal. A reveal of a banking structure that’s been operating quietly and efficiently for the past 81 years. A structure that now via CAM’s elegantly simple solution, moves us a step closer to democratizing accessibility to those not having the minimum required €/$100M and above these bank-regulated transaction require. Now streamlined. Now ready.

Whether you enter via the Gibraltar LLP or the Wyoming Smart Company security token, your capital is protected, your onboarding is compliant, and your principal and returns are contractually bank-guaranteed.

This is CAM. Where collaborative capital meets sovereign-grade custody. And your principal and profit bank-guaranteed stake is secured by law, not hype.

Thanks – CEO, Cautus Asset Management Ltd.

How behavioural psychology and neuroscience confirms that when it comes to high performance the majority is always wrong

Here’s an 11 minute talk by Paul Rulkens who is a highly experienced, accomplished and world renowned expert in achieving big goals in the fastest and most elegantly simple way possible. His work is based on his knowledge and experience of the practical application of behavioural psychology, neuroscience and common sense. He currently works internationally to make successful people, teams and organizations even more successful.

Based on a conversation Einstein had with his assistant. This talk illustrates the point that when it comes to high performance. There is an obvious reason why the majority is always wrong and so with this verifiable fact in mind, here’s how you can use this phenomenon to get everything you want using everything that you’ve got.

Behavioural science research studies have proven

That only 3% of people facing an intractable problem that they want to solve were found to exhibit the innate mental ability to take the following action by default. So if you’re part of the 97% majority who have an important goal that really matters to you. But you’re finding it unattainable, here’s what researchers have found that this 3% sub-group do subconsciously as their default instinctive behaviour, when searching for an elegantly simple solution to achieving their big goals.

As rather than assuming that the majority belief system is right because they are the majority and any concepts deviating from this belief system is wrong. Ask yourself whether your immediate rejection of any idea outside your existing belief system would be the same if you were to instead, to do this.

Consider the opposite!

Why? Because a belief system by definition is not required to be based on facts or even logic. Rather they represent anything that authority figures convince the majority to accept as being ‘the truth’. But you know rationally from your own observations that tech billionaire entrepreneurs like Bill Gates didn’t achieve their success by following the herd. Rather, they achieved it by a willingness to be intellectually curious and so be open to considering the opposite often non-majority view.

The rest is history

They laughed when Gates, as a high school dropout looked into the future and foresaw that in that future everybody would have a PC on their desk needing to be powered by an operating system. However, very few at that time even understood what an operating system was, let alone its global impact, nor did they foresee the proliferation of more portable devices, so the rest is now history.

So as you discover how we deploy our wholesale banking relationship with an ECB-licensed bank trader to give your exposure to our bank-secured buy-sell contracts as a form of alternative funding for your audacious big goals, and/or via our private wealth lending platform group we deploy a regulated capital insured coupon bond paying a bank-guaranteed 5% coupon rate to fully de-risk your bond deposit, and get you a bank-secured equity kicker to net you an extreme outsized return.

Know that for almost 20 years their multiples based lending program has been the capital source for a wide variety of retail lenders around the world. This program has provided billions of dollars in capital to these lenders. In 2018, this private wealth lending platform group decided to launch a new channel that would make this program available direct to projects….. That’s where we got involved.

Today people look at it these programs and say “this sounds too good to be true”. We hear businessmen, lawyers, bankers and investors say; “I’ve been financing deals for 40 years and have never heard of anything like this.” In some ways this is understandable, isn’t it? How would the “average business person” be exposed to the inner workings of what is possible via a private wealth lending platform group that operates globally in the highly specialised field of wholesale lending involving them working at the wholesale banking level with global top banks, conducted under the regulatory oversight of central banks much like the global top-20 banks with whom it collaborates?

You see this is not domestic retail banking. And this is not retail lending or conventional loans. This is wholesale lending with a very financially strong private wealth lending platform group.

So if in doubt, be like the 3% who unlike the majority, attain their high performance by an openness to a consider the opposite based exclusively on prudently following objectively verifiable facts not belief systems. Facts that our private wealth lending group’s licensed/regulated Bond Group actively encourages your own banker, attorney or other advisor to pre-confirm prior you investing a penny.

Your investment in wholesale banking knowledge

So if you are one of the more thoughtful 3% with whom this resonates. Here’s how to prudently use these real-world facts to achieve bank-secured alternative funding and or capital growth, to accomplish your own important big goals. By your exposure the remarkable truth of how banks really make their money, and how you can join them by tapping the wholesale banking market.

Did you know for example, that the world’s global top-20 banks that in effect control the global banking system are not in fact primarily involved the lending business? This is because “para banking” (none core banking activities), is far more profitable. So in truth they are in the wholesale banking business of profiting from customers leveraged deposits via the fractional reserve system.

Dodge the yield loss and funding frustration bullet by considering the opposite

Making a down payment on your wholesale banking knowledge is as easy as being open to considering the opposite by simply reading this seminal feature entitled: “How the world’s top banks really make their money: And how you can join them by…”, on page 72 of the July 2019 issue of Family Office Magazine.

Discovering the proper legal context in which these capital secured wholesale banking contracts exist and are compliantly executed off-market, enables the thoughtful founder or growth investor to stake their claim to bank securely achieve the outsized wholesale banking returns they truly deserve, through their exposure to a managed buy-sell contract and/or our private wealth lending platform group.

Thanks – CEO, Cautus Asset Management Ltd.