Sciens International SA is an Athens Stock Exchange listed holding company that invests in and manages alternative assets. Sciens’ objective is to generate capital gain and dividend income through a broadly diversified portfolio of investments in private equity, structured finance, real estate and funds of funds.

Sciens International diversifies its asset base geographically, by industry, by type of security invested, by liquidity of asset, and generally in a manner that will allow diversification of risk and elimination of dependence on any single risk or income factor.

Allocation to each asset is an on-going dynamic process and will depend both on top down macro factors such as economic cycles or secular industry trends, as well bottom-up micro-factors based on intensive research and availability of specific portfolio opportunities.

Allocation to different alternative asset classes during different phases of the economic cycle and on the basis of secular trends optimizes returns in the long-term. Returns to be further enhanced and smoothed with management and incentive fees.