# Stonebridge Arbitrage Fund review

**URL:** <https://forums.eveonline.com/t/stonebridge-arbitrage-fund-review/379117>\
**Category:** Market Discussions\
**Tags:** community\
**Created:** [October 3, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/stonebridge-arbitrage-fund-review/379117 "2022-10-03T00:47:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Salartarium](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/user_avatar/forums.eveonline.com/salartarium/32/468818_2.png) [@Salartarium](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/Salartarium)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2022, 12:47am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/stonebridge-arbitrage-fund-review/379117/1 "2022-10-03T00:47:22Z")

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> [@\[INVESTMENT FUND\] Stonebridge Arbitrage Fund - Non-fixed passive income, unrestricted withdrawals](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/investment-fund-stonebridge-arbitrage-fund-non-fixed-passive-income-unrestricted-withdrawals/346915):
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> Stonebridge Arbitrage Fund (SMAF) is a mutual fund that takes advantage of arbitrage in Eve Online to grow assets for Eve corps or players (Investors). Investors can get passive income by investing ISK in return for fund shares whose value is tracked based on the price of assets (items) owned by the fund. How does it work? Typical funds allow you to invest ISK and pay you a fixed low percentage of around 2-3.5% as dividends each month. These returns don’t usually compound so you just get the s…

Now that the fund is shutting down, I’d just like to leave a review for future reference @Claire_Ishibashi turned 5 billion ISK to a little over 8.6 billion in ~7 months. Most investment schemes are [Scams](https://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Scams_in_EVE_Online) and for most people investment funds don’t make financial sense as they can invest in their own playstyles and most funds give out too little return for the risk.

Some people feel safe investing in their own alliance investing schemes, but I feel you should view such things as gifts unless you are receiving collateral. I hope this is a useful datapoint for anyone involved in doing business with Claire in the future. 😀

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/eveonline/original/3X/4/1/41ec4921cbaca7a6f9ea556e7cc20018461eae5e.png) [@system](https://forums.eveonline.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2023, 12:48am UTC](https://forums.eveonline.com/t/stonebridge-arbitrage-fund-review/379117/2 "2023-01-01T00:48:03Z")

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