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Passive MPS

Low-cost access to diversified, highly liquid, risk managed portfolios.​

Concerned about the ability of active investors to continually beat the market? 

Our Passive MPS is the perfect solution: a multi-asset portfolio of index-tracking funds aligned to our global asset allocation framework.​

0.05%

Annual Management Charge

For investors seeking a low-cost, whole-of-market multi-asset investment portfolio composed of tracker funds.​

About Our Passive Investment Strategy

  • Our Passive MPS is fully whole-of-market, utilising our best-in-class selection criteria aimed at minimising costs and tracking error.
  • The investment strategy is constructed using low-cost, physically replicated index-tracking funds. The portfolio utilises our global multi-asset strategic and tactical asset allocation framework.​

Objectives and Investment Policy

Fund Selection

Your investment will be allocated to index-tracking funds and ETFs only.

Asset Allocation

Your investment will be allocated to fixed income and equity funds.

Risk Management

Risk will be maintained within defined risk profile constraints.​ Our strategy utilises both volatility and equity risk ranges.

Rebalancing

Minimum semi-annual rebalancing.​

Performance Target

Aims to outperform the peer-group and reference benchmark by 0.5-1% annualised p.a net of fees on a 5-7 year rolling basis.

Why choose this portfolio:​

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Very low-cost.

Our Passive MPS is highly cost-effective, with an annual management charge for the strategy set at 0.05%, one of the lowest in the UK for a passive portfolio.

Evidence-based, broad market exposure.

A straightforward and transparent approach to obtaining global multi-asset market exposure.

The asset allocation of the strategy is in line with our independent, evidence-based asset allocation framework.

Whole of market product selection.

Our Passive portfolio selects from a full range of highly reputable index-tracking product providers.

As a fully independent solutions provider, we select based on merit: low cost with low tracking error.

Target Market

The Passive MPS is aimed at investors with a preference for tracker funds, seeking a low-cost, diversified and risk-controlled investment portfolio that is actively managed.​

Our Passive Investment Strategy is highly suitable for retail clients and is intended for distribution via FCA authorised financial advisers that have conducted the relevant work to determine their clients’ circumstances, objectives, risk tolerance, appetite, and responsible investment objectives.​

Client type

Retail and professional investor.​

Knowledge and experience

Basic investor, informed investor, advanced investor.​​

Capacity for loss

No capital guarantee.​

Risk profile

Offered in five defined risk profiles.​

Recommended time horizon

Minimum 5–7-year investment time horizon.​

Distribution strategy

Investment advice​.

Negative Target Market

  • Not suitable for clients unable to bear potential losses.​
  • Not suitable for clients with an investment time horizon of less than five years.​
  • Not suitable for clients seeking a portfolio with a sustainability focus.​
  • Not suitable for clients seeking an income generating investment solution.​
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Sarb Thind

Head of Sales (UK)

Sam Boughton

Client Service Director

Contact Information

Binary Capital Limited is registered in England and Wales, with company number: 06692644. Registered office: 43-45 Dorset Street, London, England, W1U 7NA | Binary Capital Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority with firm reference number 507900.
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John Ruskin

Chairman

John is an accomplished CEO with over 25 years of international leadership experience, having built and sold two self-funded businesses to large, listed companies, and run two major divisions of world-leading enterprises.

He co-founded, built, and sold Cube Financial Group (1997 – 2006), the world’s first independent brokerage agency, which grew to £120M revenues and >100 employees in UK and US. Acquired by Société Générale’s Fimat (Newedge). Further to this he led Newedge’s Futures, Options, Equities & Fixed Income business (2006 – 2013), maintaining stable trajectory throughout the financial crisis, and growing the business to €200M revenues and 550 salespeople in eight markets.

John then co-founded, grew and sold Coex Partners Group (2014 – 2018), growing to £11M revenues in three years with an international client base of hedge funds and asset managers in UK, France, and US. Acquired by TP ICAP.

After his exit from Coex Partners he headed Agency Execution for TP ICAP (2018 – 2022), one of four divisions of the world’s largest Interdealer Broker, leading organic and acquisitive growth to increase revenues from £30M to £320M in four years. John also directed integration and strategic refocus of Liquidnet into TP ICAP (2021 – 2022), as a key member of the leadership team that closed $600M acquisition of Liquidnet in 2021 embedding a new vision, strategy, and roadmap for the business to ensure sustainable growth.

John is hugely passionate about social mobility, having worked with schools, community centres, social enterprise clubs, and the Metropolitan Police on multiple initiatives, and mentored young people through BTEC and A levels. He is a family magistrate.

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Sam Boughton

Client Service Director

Sam has been with Binary Capital since its inception in 2018. Initially, his role was to offer support to the UK sales team. Over time, he worked his way up from this position to become the Client Service Director at Binary Capital. As Client Service Director, he manages the wider sales team and is responsible for raising the assets under management (AUM) while concurrently enhancing the firm’s operational capabilities.

Sam completed his undergraduate studies in Economics with honours at the University of Manchester.

Sam’s unwavering loyalty to Binary Capital for the past five years is a testament to the firm’s boutique vision. Binary Capital’s success is built on long-standing relationships with clients and the impact they make, which serve as the foundation of the firm’s business model. ‘We believe that by prioritising these relationships and consistently delivering impactful results to our clients, we can continue to build a successful and sustainable business for years to come’

In his leisure time, Sam is an avid supporter of Arsenal, his favourite football team, and regularly attends matches at the Emirates Stadium. Sam is also a highly skilled sportsman, having completed triathlons and competed at a high level of squash around London. In his spare time, Sam enjoys playing golf, weather permitting.

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