Independence
When retaining an investment management firm to protect and grow your assets, ensuring that there are no conflicts of interest compromising your advisors judgement is paramount. Unfortunately, however, such conflicts are often hard to recognize by the average investor. As a result, Linde Equity has structured its operation to be clearly free of any conflict of interest that may arise in the course of providing investment advice to our clients. We achieve this goal by maintaining our independent status and by not representing other institutions interested in selling their products through a financial advisor network.
In addition, we do not recommend mutual funds to our clients. We therefore avoid the potential conflict of interest arising from collecting sales commissions and trailer fees paid by mutual fund companies.
We do not engage in any corporate finance activity. Large financing fees can impair the judgement in determining the investment merit of the company being financed and whose newly issued shares are being recommended to brokers and clients.
At Linde Equity, we only recommend securities that are already publicly traded based solely on investment merit.