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Venture 02 · Impact Banking

Capital, composed — with conviction attached.

Fortera is Worsley Capital's private, impact-centric banking venture — built for a new generation of wealth that expects both genuine impact and competitive returns, and that feels underserved by incumbent private banks.

Discretionary Asset Management · Private Banking · Family Office & Lifestyle
Positioning & Why It Exists

A house built around a single premise.

Fortera exists to serve individuals and families the traditional private banking model was never designed for — founders, next-generation custodians of family wealth, and senior professionals for whom performance is necessary, but no longer sufficient on its own. Many arrive already well served on paper: a private bank for custody, a family office for administration, a separate adviser for the causes they care about. What they lack is a single house that treats those relationships as one mandate, held to one standard of conduct.

Fortera unifies discretionary asset management, private banking, and family office-level servicing under a single impact-led mandate, reported with the same rigour clients expect of their returns. The premise: capital that compounds should also count for something beyond the account statement — underwriting for both a target return and a verified impact outcome, disclosed with the same frequency and held to the same standard of evidence an institutional allocator would demand of a fund manager.

Who It Serves Founders, next-generation wealth, and senior professionals seeking one coordinated relationship rather than three separate vendors.
The Mandate Every holding underwritten against a verified minimum impact threshold, alongside a target financial return.
The Standard Institutional-grade reporting and governance, applied to a private banking relationship.
Three Disciplines, One Mandate

The three pillars of Fortera.

Asset management, private banking and family office servicing, delivered as a single coordinated relationship — each staffed, reported and governed independently, then reconciled into one view.

Pillar 01

Impact-Themed Wealth Management

Capital deployed with the discipline institutions apply to their own balance sheets, directed toward the transition economy. Mandates are built discretionarily around each client's liquidity horizon and risk tolerance.

  • A strategic asset allocation set at onboarding, with tactical drift bands that trigger a rebalance rather than a calendar-driven review
  • Every holding screened negatively against an exclusion list, then positively against a verified minimum impact threshold — no exceptions
  • Quarterly reporting pairing total return against the agreed benchmark with impact metrics
Pillar 02

Digital Private Bank Account

A banking relationship engineered for individuals who move capital, and countries, without friction — structured for lives and holdings that genuinely span borders.

  • Multi-currency accounts and institutional-grade FX execution
  • Personal, corporate and trust-held capital opened as distinct mandates, consolidated into one relationship manager and one reporting view
  • Every transaction measured and reported — banking with a visible footprint
Pillar 03

Life-Optimisation & Concierge

Family office-level advisory and concierge infrastructure, available from a client's first day rather than after decades of accumulated wealth.

  • Dedicated concierge and personal coach, available around the clock
  • Estate, succession and legacy planning for the next generation
  • Coordination with external tax, legal and trust advisers
  • Introductions within a private circle of like-minded principals who share deal flow and counsel alongside their banking relationship

Illustrative only. Fortera is a Worsley Capital venture presented for informational purposes. Nothing on this page constitutes an offer, solicitation, or investment, banking, or financial advice.

Who We Serve

Built for capital seeking purpose, not just performance.

Eligibility is assessed on the substance of a relationship rather than a single balance figure — liquidity, complexity, time horizon and intent, considered together. In practice, that tends to mean one of five recurring situations.

01

Creative Entrepreneurs

Founders and operators building category-defining companies, often arriving mid-liquidity event with concentrated stock positions or the early proceeds of an exit.

In practiceConcentrated single-stock risk managed ahead of lock-up expiry, and diversification of exit proceeds into a liquidity sleeve before a single instrument is recommended.
02

Next-Gen Wealth

Custodians of multi-generational family wealth, and the family offices that manage it — working alongside existing trustees and advisers rather than displacing them.

In practiceReviewing trust and family investment company structures for succession efficiency, and coordinating with existing trustees on governance rather than replacing what a family has already built.
03

High Earners

Senior professionals who have outgrown retail banking, typically arriving with equity compensation, savings and legacy accounts scattered across several providers.

In practiceConsolidating scattered holdings under a single coherent plan, and sequencing vesting events against tax-aware structuring.
04

Private Business Owners

Founders of established, cash-generative companies whose wealth is largely illiquid — planning for eventual succession or sale years in advance, not weeks.

In practiceStructuring personal balance sheets alongside the business, and building pre-sale liquidity so an eventual sale is a choice, not a forced event.
05

Cross-Border Families

Individuals and households whose lives span two or more jurisdictions, and whose banking needs outgrow any single domestic provider.

In practiceCoordinating custody, reporting and currency exposure across borders, so a move between countries never means starting a financial relationship from zero.

The situations above are illustrative of the clients Fortera is built for, not a substitute for advice. Every structuring decision is taken alongside a client's own independent tax and legal counsel.

Pillar 01, In Full — The Flagship Strategy

The Master Plan: eight themes, one transition.

Pillar 01's impact-themed wealth management is built around a single flagship, multi-thematic strategy — a fund-of-sub-funds, not one blended pool. Each thematic mandate is its own segregated allocation with its own risk budget and line of underlying holdings; clients may hold the blend, or weight toward the themes closest to their own conviction.

01

Future of Energy

Grid-scale storage, next-generation solar and long-duration battery chemistries.

02

Regen Food System

Precision agriculture, soil regeneration and alternative proteins.

03

Green Cities & Homes

Low-carbon materials, retrofit technology and building efficiency.

04

Future of Transport

Electrified fleets, charging infrastructure and maritime decarbonisation.

05

Circular Consumption

Recycled materials, reuse platforms and reverse-logistics infrastructure.

06

Impact Technologies

Carbon management, direct air capture and verification analytics.

07

Mitigation & Adaptation

Flood defence, water security and parametric risk-transfer solutions.

08

Water & Natural Capital

Water treatment, desalination and biodiversity-credit markets.

Valuation & Custody

Each sub-fund is valued independently by a fund administrator, with assets held by a depositary separate from the manager — a structural separation so the manager can never simply move client assets.

Liquidity & Gating

Rebalancing happens at defined liquidity windows. Because some sub-funds hold illiquid private positions, redemptions in any one window are capped as a share of NAV and met pro-rata if that cap is exceeded — disclosed upfront, not discovered at redemption.

Fee Structure

Indicative terms only: a management fee plus a performance fee above a hurdle rate, paid through a waterfall with a high-water mark — the manager is not paid twice for the same gain.

Illustrative only. Sub-fund themes and mechanics describe the design of the strategy Pillar 01 is built around; terms are indicative and subject to final documentation and regulatory approval. Nothing here constitutes an offer, solicitation, or investment advice.

Pillar 02, In Full — Account Architecture

One relationship manager, every entity, one consolidated view.

Personal, corporate and trust-held capital are opened as distinct legal accounts — each with its own mandate, signatories and reporting line — but structured from day one to roll up into a single relationship record. Nothing is netted or commingled: consolidation happens in the reporting layer, not in the ledger.

Execution

Institutional-grade FX

Currency conversion priced against a disclosed reference rate rather than a hidden retail markup, with correspondent banking relationships that let payments settle bank-to-bank.

Security

Segregated by design

Client funds are safeguarded in segregated, ring-fenced accounts at tier-one custodian banks, held entirely apart from the house's own balance sheet.

Servicing

One accountable relationship

A single dedicated relationship manager owns the account end to end, with a reconfigurable dashboard consolidating every account, entity and currency into one statement.

Impact Accounting

A visible footprint

Carbon accounting on every transaction against a transparent, third-party-audited methodology, with quarterly footprint statements alongside the financial ones.

Illustrative only. Account structure and servicing describe the design of Pillar 02. Fortera is not currently an authorised or regulated deposit-taking institution; nothing here constitutes a banking offer or financial promotion.

Impact Methodology

How impact is assessed, not just asserted.

"Impact-led" is a claim any manager can make. What is meant to make Fortera's version credible is the process behind it — every holding is expected to clear the same underwriting bar the financial case is held to, before it is included in a mandate, and reviewed on the same schedule afterward.

The process is deliberately conceptual, not a scorecard of headline metrics — a single number is easy to game and hard to compare across genuinely different businesses. Instead, each holding is assessed against the same four questions, applied consistently regardless of sector or geography.

Stage 01

Thesis & Threshold

Before capital moves, the specific impact case is written down alongside the financial case — what outcome is being underwritten, and the minimum threshold it must clear.

Stage 02

Evidence, Not Assertion

The impact case is tested against available evidence — operating data, third-party sources, and disclosures — rather than accepted on the strength of a company's own marketing.

Stage 03

Independent Review

Impact underwriting is reviewed separately from the investment decision it supports, echoing the same separation of duties Fortera applies to financial risk.

Stage 04

Ongoing Reassessment

A holding that clears the threshold once is not assumed to clear it indefinitely — impact standing is reassessed on the same cadence as financial performance, alongside it.

The Impact Spectrum

Not every holding is asked to do the same job.

Clients define the scope of their own portfolio and the level of impact they want it to carry — most sit across all three tiers rather than in a single one. The classification follows the same three-tier framework used by European regulators under SFDR, giving a common, auditable language for how much of a portfolio is doing more than simply avoiding harm.

Tier 1 · SFDR Article 6

"Do No Evil" Assets

Any holding above the minimum impact threshold — screened out only for what it fails to avoid, not for what it actively contributes. A core of stability and liquidity.

Tier 2 · SFDR Article 8

"Positive" Assets

Holdings that promote environmental or social characteristics alongside a genuine financial return — the majority weighting in most client portfolios.

Tier 3 · SFDR Article 9

"Impact" Assets

Holdings with a direct, measurable objective, reported as rigorously as their return — held to the highest disclosure bar, and to an explicit test of additionality: would this outcome have happened without this specific capital?

Description of process and design intent, presented for informational purposes. It does not constitute a guarantee of impact outcomes, a rating methodology, or investment, banking, or financial advice. SFDR tier references describe a classification framework used for illustrative comparison, not a claim of regulatory authorisation.

How A Relationship Begins

The client journey, from first conversation to one consolidated view.

Fortera is built around a single coordinated relationship rather than three separate vendors — the process below reflects that from the outset. Every stage is handled by the same relationship team, not handed off between departments.

Stage 01

Discovery & Fit

An initial conversation to understand liquidity needs, risk tolerance, existing structures, and whether Fortera's impact-led mandate genuinely fits — not a sales process, a fit check in both directions.

Stage 02

Mandate Design

Asset management, banking, and family office servicing are scoped together as one mandate, built around the client's actual liquidity horizon rather than a standard product shelf.

Stage 03

Onboarding & Consolidation

Accounts, custody, and reporting lines are set up under a single relationship manager, with consolidated statements replacing the fragmented view most clients arrive with.

Stage 04

Ongoing Stewardship

Quarterly reporting pairs financial performance with verified impact metrics; the relationship team, not a call centre, remains the single point of contact as circumstances change.

Frequently Asked

Questions about Fortera, answered plainly.

What does "impact-led" actually mean in practice?+

Every holding is underwritten against a verified minimum impact threshold alongside a target financial return — the impact case is assessed with the same rigour as the financial case, not treated as a marketing overlay applied afterward.

Is Fortera a bank, and is this an offer to open an account?+

No. This page is informational only and does not constitute an offer, solicitation, or recommendation regarding any security, fund interest, investment product, or banking service. For actual products and onboarding, visit forteranova.com directly.

How does Fortera relate to Worsley Capital?+

Fortera is one of Worsley Capital's four ventures, operated under its own brand. It is staffed and governed independently, while sharing the same risk discipline and standard of conduct as the rest of the platform.

Who is Fortera genuinely built for?+

Founders, next-generation custodians of family wealth, and senior professionals who are typically already served on paper — a private bank, a family office, a separate impact adviser — but who lack one house treating those relationships as a single mandate.

How do I get in touch?+

Directly via forteranova.com, or via Worsley Capital's contact details — either route reaches the same relationship team.

“Wealth is stewardship. Capital, given direction, is how the future gets built — and how it pays for itself.”

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