The Dubai-based hedge fund IBF TRUST has published the results of its investment activity for 2025, reporting a +3939% return — a figure that significantly exceeds the performance of global indices and the average returns of hedge funds over the same period. The published data is supported by the fund’s operational track record, available for investors in a private investment channel. This level of transparency allows investors to independently assess execution quality and verify the systematic nature of the results.
The fund’s President, Doctor of Business Administration and Forbes expert Kairat Bermukanov emphasized that such a high return is the result of systematic work by the analytical team, a multi-layered risk control model, and extensive data processing infrastructure. At the same time, the fund is nearing completion of the licensing process with VARA — Dubai’s main regulator of virtual assets. Licensing includes a comprehensive review of ownership structure, internal control systems, data protection mechanisms, and financial reporting disclosures. According to Bermukanov, successfully passing this process confirms the maturity of IBF TRUST’s internal operations and their compliance with international standards of capital management.
ANALYTICAL ARCHITECTURE
The +3939% result is the outcome of an investment platform developed over more than eight years. Market analysis involves over 15 specialized professionals, including quants, risk managers, fundamental analysts, traders and portfolio managers. Each investment decision goes through multiple stages of analytical review and is made collectively.
The fund uses institutional data sources such as Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FactSet, S&P Capital IQ Pro, Nasdaq ITCH/LOBSTER, XBRL aggregators, and other professional platforms. These tools provide access to tick-level data, order books, option chains, news flows, corporate reporting, and alternative signals such as insider activity and buyback parameters. Based on this data, tens of thousands of features are generated to describe price dynamics, liquidity structure, risk premiums, macroeconomic conditions, and factor models of value and growth.
A key element of the infrastructure is the fund’s own server cluster, capable of processing more than 1 TB of data per minute. Such computational capacity is rare even among large banks, giving IBF TRUST a substantial technological advantage.
TECHNOLOGY AND HUMAN CONTROL
IBF TRUST actively applies modern analysis methods including machine learning, neural networks, signal ensembles, factor models, and agent-based modeling. All algorithms undergo walk-forward testing and regular stress tests to detect and eliminate overfitted or unstable strategies. However, despite the extensive use of automation, the final decision is always made by human experts: analysts re-check fundamental drivers, portfolio managers determine position sizing, risk managers monitor limits, and traders evaluate liquidity and execution feasibility.
Thus, technological power is complemented by human quality control, reducing the risk of errors typical for fully automated systems.
RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
IBF TRUST follows institutional-level risk control standards. The fund applies exposure limits by country, sector and asset class, uses a multi-level stop system (initial / soft / hard), and incorporates automatic safeguards including kill-switch protocols and trading pauses in case of deviations from accepted risk parameters. Every trade is logged with a precise timestamp, enabling retrospective analysis and continuous methodology monitoring.
An additional factor of reliability is immutability: the fund does not edit historical trade data. The private channel includes a complete archive enabling investors to track real execution performance over time.
RESULTS OF THE YEAR
For 2025, IBF TRUST demonstrated a result that significantly exceeds the performance of most global hedge funds. Returns were achieved without the use of leverage, within strict risk controls and in compliance with Islamic investment principles, excluding speculative or questionable assets.
A challenging year for the global economy acted as a stress test: many financial companies experienced declining returns and higher risks. Against this backdrop, IBF TRUST’s results confirm the effectiveness of its investment methodology, the maturity of its risk management framework, and the ability of its infrastructure to function under high volatility.
IBF TRUST unites three key elements that are rarely found together: access to institutional-level data, a cutting-edge analytical architecture, and human decision oversight. The fund’s private channel is a live broadcast of real investment activity rather than forecasts or marketing materials. For this reason, the +3939% performance is not perceived as an exception, but as a logical result of a systematic approach.
These results reinforce the status of IBF TRUST as a technologically advanced and methodologically mature institutional player capable of consistently outperforming the market and maintaining stable efficiency in the long term.
