• Conservative and Selective: NBB is selective about choosing the right investment product for its clients and in doing so always focused on preserving capital and delivering risk-adjusted returns.
• Process driven: NBB has a very rigorous internal due-diligence process that ably supported by a strong legal and risk management team.
• Diversity in ideas: NBB believes that the client would benefit from diversity of investment ideas and that it can improve probability of expected returns.
• Valuable relationships: NBB has excellent relationships for decades with international institutions like JP Morgan, UBS, Soc Gen, etc and also some of the world’s most successful asset managers like GAM, Permal (now part of Legg Mason), to name a few.
• Long track record: NBB has been actively managing/structuring investment products for more than a decade.

• Launched in March 1994
• US dollar-denominated
• Actively invests in global equities primarily in USA, Europe and Japan (with a small allocation to Latin America and Far East)
• Managed by Vontobel USA, a subsidiary of Vontobel Holding Ltd.,Zurich, Switzerland, one of the top Swiss asset management groups and a “best of class” international equity manager
• Targets to generate long-term capital gains
• Minimum subscription amount US$10,000
• Weekly liquidity i.e., subscription and redemption can be made on a weekly basis (every Tuesday cut off 12 noon Bahrain time).

• Fund Manager: EFG-Hermes Financial Management (Egypt) Limited
• Inception Date: July 1999
• Domicile: Bermuda
• Listing: Dubai Financial Market
• Structure: Open Ended (without capital protection)
• Objective: Long Term Capital Appreciation
  
• Investment Universe: Middle East & North African Equities
  
• Subscription & Redemption: Weekly
  
• Minimum Subscription: US$ 20,000
• Subscription Fees: 2%

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• 5-years Capital protected Note guaranteed on maturity by Barclays Bank PLC, rated A+ by S&P
• 70% participation in the high potential return, based on quarterly averaged performance, of a portfolio which closely mirrors the actively managed EFG-Hermes MEDA Fund
• Weekly liquidity with 1% Exit fee
  
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• Term 5 Years: capital guaranteed on maturity by JP Morgan Chase Bank, rated A+ by S&P.
• Monthly liquidity with 1% exit fee
• Investment Basket: Equal exposure to Pictet Asia Equity ex-Japan Fund AND Franklin Templeton Asian Growth Fund
• It makes sense to invest in Asia. The Asian markets are expected to do very well over the next few years. Opportunity to play the Asian equities with a safe and secure manner: The capital protection makes sure that investors do not lose their capital. * 100% participation in the quarterly average performance of two of the best performing active managers.
• Using two managers as the underlying for the Note further increases the diversification for investors. The individual markets in Asia may be overvalued or undervalued from time to time. The two managers, with differing styles and weightage to individual countries, will aim to get the best performance from the best valued markets in different periods. The two managers can change their weighting to different countries and invest in markets that have the best risk-return combination.
• The best quarterly average performance is locked in, providing protection from the downside even if the stock markets correct afterwards
  
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• 100% Principal Protection at maturity by the Royal Bank of Scotland, rated A by S & P
  
• Contingent performance-linked annual coupon of up to 6% in the first four years of existence of the Notes
  
• Access to the Permal Macro Holdings Fund
  
• Initial exposure of 100% to the Permal Macro Holdings Fund
  
• Maximum exposure of 200% to the Permal Macro Holdings Fund
  
• 5 year investment denominated in US Dollars (“USD”)
  
• Monthly secondary market liquidity with 1% 1% Exit fee
  
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• 5-year Capital Protected Note guaranteed on maturity by JP Morgan Chase Bank, rated A+ by S&P.
• 100% capital protection at Maturity
• 100% exposure to the performance (based on quarterly averaging applied to last 17 quarters – of an Investment Basket of Mutual Funds.
• The Investment Basket consists of a 50:50 allocation to two of the best performing mutual funds that invest in Chinese equities i.e., Parvest china Fund, managed by BNP Paribas Asset Management, based in Luxembourg, has been in existence since March 1995. Franklen Templeton China Fund , managed by Franklin Templeton Investments based in Luxembourg, has been in existence since Jan. 1994.
• Monthly liquidity
  
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• 7 year Capital Protected Notes guarantedd on maturity by JP Morgan Chase Bank rated A+by S & P.
• The Note provides a 100% participation to the India growth story coupled with the security of a 100% capital protection at maturity.
• Actual investment is to an actively managed basket of 2 of the top performing mutual funds that invest in Indian equities, both have a fund rating of ‘A' and one of which has the highest 5 star rank from Standard & Poors'
  
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• 7 years Capital Protected Notes guaranteed on maturity by Societe Generale, rated A- by S&P.
• Guaranteed coupons of 4%, 4.5% and 5% for year 1, year 2 and year 3 respectively and capital protected at maturity.
• Potential to make additional returns from participation to a Fund, in existence since 1989, actively managed by US-based TCW Investment Management Company – a mortgage-backed securities specialist managing about US$30 billion.
• The Fund primarily invests in US dollar denominated mortgage pass-through securities and collateralised mortgage obligations (CMOs') issued or guaranteed by the United States government, its agencies or instrumentalities having a credit rating of AA or better
  
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• 7 years Capital Protected Notes guaranteed on maturity by Societe Generale, rated A- by S&P.
• Guaranteed coupons of 4%, 4.5% and 5% for year 1, year 2 and year 3 respectively and capital protected at maturity.
• Potential to make additional returns from participation to a Fund, in existence since 1989, actively managed by US-based TCW Investment Management Company – a mortgage-backed securities specialist managing about US$30 billion.
• The Fund primarily invests in US dollar denominated mortgage pass-through securities and collateralised mortgage obligations (CMOs') issued or guaranteed by the United States government, its agencies or instrumentalities having a credit rating of AA or better
  
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