24/08/2011. Interview with the admin of UnitrustDirect

BEWARE! UnitrustDirect has been moved to Problem status due to confirmed selective payouts! Do not invest there!

Hello everyone! By no means the longest running program listed on MNO but with some four and a half months under their belts UnitrustDirect are certainly a well established one. I suppose it’s fair to say that they’ve been flying under the radar somewhat during that time, though it could also be pointed out that a lot of that time was during what is usually a pretty slow time for the industry anyway. Today however I’m pleased to have an interview with Aurelia, the admin of UnitrustDirect.

The program was first reviewed on MNO here so if you need more information on them I think it’s as good a place as any to start looking. Before we here from the admin though I’ll just remind you that UnitrustDirect is an online HYIP with a variety of plans that run for short, medium, and long terms offering 102.5% after 5 days, 107.1% after 10 days, 123.8% after 25 days, 194% after 65 days, and 403.4% after 125 days.

“1. Hi Aurelia, please introduce yourself to the readers of MNO and tell us please about your own involvement in UnitrustDirect.

Hello dear MNO readers, my name is Aurelia Anderson and I am the Senior Manager for UnitrustDirect Advisory Board. It is my pleasure to tell you more about the company that I’ve been working for the past two years.

2. Can you give us some background information on UnitrustDirect? How many others are involved with the program or are you operating alone? How long have you been online?

UnitrustDirect Asset Management Co. is an independent advisory and investment company specializing in providing asset management service since 2005. For over 6 years we have been serving both institutional and individual investors, understanding their needs and responding by providing a range of medium-term and long-term investment products. In a field which is often characterized by hunger for quick fortunes, we’re there for the long term.

Going online in year 2010 revolutionized the way we operate and moved company-client relationship to a new level. The nature and design of web-based business platform allows us to provide unmatched 24/7 asset management service combined with convenience and security of instant online transactions.

Currently UnitrustDirect co. team consists of 23 experienced qualified employees working hand by hand with a growing number of Regional Representatives that are authorized to represent our company in the countries of their residence.

3. What plans are available to investors in UnitrustDirect? Explain them in detail to us. What ROIs are on offer. What are the minimum and maximum amounts to invest? What payment options are you accepting at the moment?

Currently we offer six fixed income investment products varying from short-term solutions with relatively low ROI to long-term solutions with a highly competitive interest rate, all with payout on expiry and with duration counted in calendar days. We accept deposits both in USD and EUR.

Minimum investment is as low as $5 and it takes just five calendar days for a Trial portfolio to expire and provide a 2.5% interest on your investment. Trial portfolio is a great solution for investors who are new to UnitrustDirect service and looking to give us a try. We stick to policy of transparency and 100% predictability, therefore, there are no hidden fees or extra spends involved in investing with our company.

Once you need a higher return on your investment, kindly take a look at mid-end and high-end investment products offered by UnitrustDirect. It’s not a secret that short-term investments are more likely to be affected by market volatility than long-term investments, as long as shorter-term variation in market prices may matter less than the longer-term expectation of overall return. Basically, the longer the term of investment, the higher the ROI that asset manager can offer you.

Currently we accept deposits and process withdrawals through e-currency gateways such as Liberty Reserve and Perfect Money as well as by means of Bank wire transfer. A number of other payment options will be available shortly.

4. I know from experience that the longer an “on-expiry” plan runs for the less likely HYIP investors are to trust it. Nobody wants to wait for 125 days before getting paid offered daily payments you might actually get a lot more members and money for the program. What do you say to this?

As far as I’m concerned investment products with payout on expiry are not that unpopular as one may assume. According to latest reports and customer survey that we have run earlier in April, 57% of clients prefer to invest in Reliance portfolio with a duration period of 125 calendar days. Nevertheless, we are considering to start offering investment products with a floating interest rate (dependent on various financial factors) and with a daily interest payout option.

5. How secure is the website of UnitrustDirect? What are you doing to protect it and members’ accounts from hackers? Are you on a dedicated server? Who is your host? What kind of anti-DDoS protection do you have?

Maintaining client accounts’ security is one of our primary goals. We provide clients with such vital security features as 256-bit SSL-encrypted connection to UnitrustDirect website, sophisticated DDoS protection, multi-password account access, one-time SMS-PIN codes, account access logger, automated account watchdog system that warns you if suspicious activity is detected on your account, email warnings and reminders etc.

We also encourage our clients to help us protect their accounts from unauthorized access by getting acquainted with basic online security rules that are available on our website, in ‘Security Center’ section.

6. Can we see any statistics regarding the site? How many members have joined since the beginning and how many are active at the moment? Are you pleased with the support from the members so far? How important a role do they play in bringing in new members?

At this very moment we proudly serve almost 10 thousand clients and are expecting the 10Kth client to open an account by the end of September. A nice unexpected surprise is waiting for the 10Kth client, don’t miss your chance!

We’re hugely grateful for all the support that we receive from our clients. As I keep saying – company’s overall performance is the best and most efficient advertising partner of UnitrustDirect.

7. How can members contact you if they have any questions or support related issues?

Should you need assistance or have a question about company’s products and services, please contact Help Desk staff by submitting an enquiry in Help Desk section of UnitrustDirect site. If you have an issue that requires urgent assistance, please contact Live chat operator or call us to get a solution to your problem at earliest possible time.

We believe that non-English speakers deserve the same quality of support service that is provided to English-speaking clients, therefore we are pleased to introduce the multilingual support service. You are more than welcome to contact a Regional Representative speaking one of these currently supported languages: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Russian, Tamil, Telugu. More languages will be available shortly.

8. What have been the most common questions and problems you’ve had to deal with so far? Is there anything you wish to say here so that members can avoid having to contact you later?

Great question, Paul, thank you! Here are the answers to the two most frequently asked questions:
– signing up for an investment account is completely free of charge
– investment duration periods are in calendar days (including weekends and holidays)

9. How have you been promoting UnitrustDirect so far? What advertising strategy have you been using? How are you getting new members to join?

Every aspect of our service is important for us as we strive to provide unmatched service and satisfy each client of our company. Please let me repeat that company’s overall performance has been the best and most efficient advertising partner of UnitrustDirect so far. The higher the number of clients who are fully satisfied with our services, the more new clients open investment accounts with UnitrustDirect.

Certainly we also have a lot of conventional advertising partners among investment related portals and offline media.

10. What exactly are you doing with investors money? How are you investing it and how are you generating the profits being made to members?

In a nutshell we manage investor and company funds to generate as much interest as possible under current circumstances and market state. My experienced associates invest managed assets in stocks, bonds, real estate, currency, oil, gold and other commodities. Dividends are shared with investors relatively to terms and conditions of their investments.

Efficient asset management involves three core disciplines: Asset Allocation – spreading the portfolio across asset types, such as such as stocks, bonds, real estate, currency, oil, gold, etc, reduces the risk of major losses if one type falls precipitously. Asset Evaluation – researching, analysing and picking the right stocks and the best bonds. Asset Preservation – preventing the loss of an investment’s total value when times are tough. We remain focused on these core disciplines to provide the highest degree of expertise and offer competitive interest rates to our clients.

11. And finally is there anything else you wish to say not covered in this interview? Anything in the review you may not agree with or wish to comment on? If you had just one more thing to say to the unconvinced about the merits of putting their money into your program, what would that be?

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to answer your questions, Paul. We have implemented so many new account features since the last time you reviewed our website, so you might even want to re-write it. Dear MNO readers, it is my pleasure to welcome you to visit UnitrustDirect and give us a try to to meet your highest requirements for online investment accounts, thank you for spending your time reading this interview.”

And thanks a lot to Aurelia also for taking the time to answer my questions. I hope that you all found something in there that was helpful either one way or another if you’re thinking about joining UnitrustDirect and as always best of luck to all the existing and future members there. I hope it continues to work out for you. Particularly anyone in the 125 day plan which is supposedly going to pay it’s first investors (assuming there were any) very soon now. I’ll be keeping an eye out for investor’s reports on that one with great interest.

That’s all for today guys. I won’t be doing a news update as I’m going to be spending the night on the overnight train from Berlin to Paris, something I’m really looking forward to. But I’ll catch up with everything in tomorrow’s update which will most likely again be made a little earlier than usual. So make sure and check back again for that and see you all then!