Thuram&Wilson VS Atlantis MIA: battle of investment projects

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Thuram&Wilson VS Atlantis MIA: battle of investment projects

Online money making industry is rapidly developing and modernizing from day to day. The market is replete with different offerings to help you earn money via making a certain investment. It may be a real challenge to select the right company you want to deal with while being maximally sure that your choice is the most optimum. Considering every investment program separately may be time consuming and dull, thus we decided to help your analysis practices and bring you a comparative examination of two popular investment projects that will allow you to see in what manner you should make a selection.

 
The two programs we are going to look closer today are Thuram&Wilson and Atlantis MIA. Both investment projects have been online for a significant period and both are observed and ranked by many largest HYIP monitors. Before we start our comparative analysis we will introduce each of these projects in brief.
 
2_original.jpgThuram&Wilson founded in 2005 is an independent capital management firm that deals mostly with real estate, forex and energy markets. The company was formed by Robert. M Thuram. Later it was joined and expanded by his partner Eric Wilson who together handpicked a team of professionals with extensive experience from both the financial markets and the corporate world.
 
3_original.jpgAtlantis Mutual Investment Alliance was also founded in 2005 as an employee-owned investment management firm. Since the time of its formation Atlantis has been managing fixed income portfolios for individual clients. Since year 2007 Atlantis team has been providing professional and efficient financial service to institutional clients as well. The Alliance's principal activity is managing portfolio securities, such as shares, bonds, foreign and domestic mutual funds participations.
 
  1. Investment portfolio
 
The first category from which we start out collation of the two online investment projects is Investment Portfolio which applies to the investment plans offered by each of these programs and interests paid.
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Number of plans
3
6
Minimum investment
$1
$5
Minimum interest
N/A
5%
Maximum interest
N/A
291%
Payouts
Perhaps daily
On term expiry
Compounding or reinvestment
Compounding
Reinvestment
Maximum investment term
N/A
120 calendar days
Deposit options
Perfect Money, Liberty Reserve
Perfect Money, Liberty Reserve
Investment insurance
No
Yes

 
Actually, Thuram&Wilson investment program has no plans. It has three types of funds where you can invest your money which includes real estate, forex and oil & gas funds. Meantime, Atlantis offers 5 common plans and one Platinum plan that should be discussed with the company team separately. The terms of Atlantis Platinum are not available for all clients. The plan offering itself is limited and only meant for company's loyal clients.
 
While Atlantis features clearly detailed investment offerings with established interests and terms Thuram&Wilson is obscure and rather strange in what relates to how and how much you earn your interests. The only thing we know is that an online investor buys shares in any of the three funds and then sells them, apparently, according to the regularly updated market data. Thuram&Wilson sets no restrictions on when you can withdraw your funds. You may withdraw your funds any time with your ROI. On the other hand Atlantis pays you returns only at the expiry of the investment term.
 
Thuram&Wilson allows compounding of your investment, which means that when you invest in a fund your capital is automatically compounded 100%. Atlantis does not offer compounding but it allows reinvestment of the funds. Thus, at the expiry of the investment term you need not to open a new account, all the funds can be reinvested instead.
 
Unlike its many rivals Atlantis offers investment insurance services as well. The fee charged for the insurance depends on the plan chosen. The term of the insurance is tied to the term of the investment. It is unclear what exactly the insurance means and it is up to you to agree to it or decline it. Minimum insurance fee is 1% which is charged for the first investment plan called Atlantis Initial. For your investment of $1000 investment you will be paid $1050 without insurance, and $1040 if you select funds insurance.
 
Winner: Atlantis, it has clearer and more detailed investment strategy and offering while providing established interest rates. You know how much you will be credited at the end and iti is Atlantis who works for you to earn you money while with Thuram&Wilson you should be smart and educated enough to understand the market movements and make your profits yourself.
 
  1. Account security
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
IP sensitivity
N/A
N/A
Browser detection
N/A
N/A
PIN code
N/A
Yes
Additional options
N/A
N/A

 
When it comes to account security both investment projects do not significantly differ. The only advantage of Atlantis over Thuram&Wilson in this area is that Atlantis requires PIN when you try to change anything within your account. None of them offers IP or browser identification set-up. None of them provides any additional security services like SMS verification or security card code.
 
Winner: obviously Atlantis is the winner here only due to one aspect but in general both programs are too weak in their user accounts protection.
 
  1. Website protection
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
SSL encryption
Unstable
Stable
DDoS protection
Unknown
Unknown
Additional security
N/A
N/A

 
Thuram&Wilson website features unstable SSL protection provided by Equifax. You may notice the lock icon in the upper right corner on the browser address bar only sometimes while Atlantis shows the SSL lock icon from the very first page on the website. Even when you are inside your Thuram&Wilson account there may not be the lock icon. Once the system even reported us the following:
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There is no information on whether Thuram&Wilson and Atlantis have DDoS protection. None of them elaborates on the matter on their websites.
 
Winner: Atlantis shows more stable and reliable SSL protection while Thuram&Wilson has weak SSL certificate and you may not be sure if your personal information is encrypted during transfer.
 
  1. Whois information
 
As you understand whois information provided by the website owners is an important aspect that reveals whether those behind any Internet project are transparent and open people.
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Registrar
WEB COMMERCE COMMUNICATIONS LIMITED DBA WEBNIC.CC
REGISTER.IT SPA
Privacy protection
Privacy protected
No
Registrant information
No
Limited
Servers
Two servers in India
Three servers in Great Britain
IP addresses
One IP in India
Two IPs in US, one IP in Ukraine

 
As you can see whois information for both investment projects is rather scarce. While Atlantis has specified at least a registrant name and his post address (Matthew Gettinger, Quay House, 2, Admirals Way, London, GB), Thuram&Wilson gives no registrant information as it uses privacy protected hosting provided by Katz Global Domain Name Trust whose contacts were ‘stuffed’ into the whois report.
 
Winner: Atlantis wins because it provides at least any details on who registered the website though they are too scarce to call the company transparent and open to the public. Still it is better than nothing which is the case with Thuram&Wilson which produces the more suspicion towards its business the further we go with our analysis.
 
  1. Website interface
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Design
Fine, business-like
Fine, business-like
Menu
Poor
Full
Account registration
Cumbersome
Simple
Login area
Convenient
Inconvenient
Profile area
Poor
Overloaded

 
The website interface plays a significant role in customer satisfaction as it is the navigation experience that makes the online investor draw his/her conclusion and decide if they like working with this investment program. In case with Thuram&Wilson we were not too satisfied when we surfed their website and tried to register and use our new account. The registration procedure terms are rather strict as compared with Atlantis who only requires you to provide your email address, your name and create a password. While giving outrageously few details about itself and providing weak SSL encryption of users’ personal info Thuram&Wilson requires too much details from new clients. Thuram&Wilson requires you to submit your full contact information and besides your ecurrency account number immediately during the subscription procedure while Atlantis does not require your ecurrency account details.
 
Apart from registration Thuram&Wilson website features very poor menu and user profile area. If you want to find the information about affiliate program you will have to check up FAQ section while many investment projects place Partner Program section separately on their websites because many clients want instant access to this section particularly. As for the account area Thuram&Wilson provides too few options. You can only deposit your account, view the history and buy or sell bonds. No separate withdrawal button and no account security center.
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The only weak points with the website for Atlantis are login and profile areas. You need to have a wide screen resolution in order to find the login button otherwise reduce your browser format to 90%. Besides, Atlantis account area is too overloaded with many options and additional information reports which complicates the navigation a bit.
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Winner: Atlantis has more convenient and comprehensive interface.
 
  1. Affiliate program

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Affiliate program availability
Yes
Yes
Affiliate levels
1
5 level matrix

 
As we have already mentioned above Thuram&Wilson speaks about its affiliate program only in the FAQ section. The affiliate link is provided to a new user immediately after the registration in the confirmation email message. Thuram&Wilson credits 5% of your affiliate investment.
 
Atlantis has a sophisticated 5 level matrix affiliate program and credits to its users up to 12% of each deposit made by a client, referred by you. However, 7-12% affiliate rate is paid only to Atlantis Authorized Partner. In order to qualify for the AAP a user needs to fill in the special form. Such partners are credited commissions for both new investments and reinvestments while all the other participants in the referral system gain only commissions on the new investments.
 
Winner: Atlantis wins because it provides more comprehensive, multi-layered and attractive affiliate program.
 
  1. Company contacts, customer support
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Company address
No
Yes
Contact number
No
Yes
Live chat
No
Yes
Email
No
4 email addresses
Request ticket
Yes
Yes

 
In line with its privacy protection policy Thuram&Wilson fails to provide any poor information about its location and gives no possibility to contact them either by phone or by email. Meantime, Atlantis gives more than sufficient information about itself and many options for online investors to contact the team in order to solve the issues with the service. Apart from all the options mentioned users can also contact Atlantis partners and representatives in a number of countries.
 
Winner: Atlantis is indisputable winner here.
 
  1. Multilingual support
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Multilingual interface
English, German, Spanish, Italian
English only
Multilingual customer support
No
21 languages

 
While Thuram&Wilson has its website interface in four languages it provides no customer support in separate languages except online support tickets, of course. Meantime, Atlantis fails to enable its users to interact with the website in their own native tongue which may pose some challenges. On the other hand Atlantis provides 21 language customer care support. On the website users may select the language in which they would like to obtain more information about the project and contact a person who would speak to them in this language.
 
Winner: Thuram&Wilson wins in that it supports four language interface, Atlantis is better in that it may do without interface languages and instead may serve its users in their own languages via live representatives.
 
  1. HYIP monitor ranks
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
 
Hyip.com
Rank
6
5
Monitor investment
$1,400
$1,500
 
Hyipinvestment.com
Rank
16
25
Monitor investment
$300
$300
 
Hyipmonitor.com
Rank
Not rated
148.70 (the larger is the figure the better)
Monitor investment
Unknown (7 payouts have been made)
 
Hyipexplorer.com
Rank
Not rated
45
Monitor investment
$100
 
Money-news-online.com
Rank
Not rated
19
Monitor investment
$230

 
As you can see different monitors place investment projects at different positions. While the largest HYIP monitor hyip.com ranks Atlantis at 5 and Thuram&Wilson at 6, hyipinvestment.com ranks these programs differently, placing Thuram&Wilson 9 points ahead of Atlantis. Besides, it should also be noted that Atlantis is monitored a bit less than its rival, which also affects the ranks.
 
You can also see that three other largest monitors do not rate Thuram&Wilson at all with Atlantis steadily appearing in their rank lists with positive feedback and paying status.
 
Winner: Atlantis again becomes a winner as it is most popular with largest HYIP monitors.
 
  1. Alexa rank
 

 
Thuram&Wilson
Atlantis
Alexa rank
36,130
162,863

 
Thuram&Wilson
 alexa_for_thuram.jpg
Atlantis MIA
 alexa_for_atlantis.jpg
Winner: the figures speak by themselves showing that Atlantis is indisputable winner here.
 
Conclusion
 
Having conducted such a thorough analysis by 10 categories without passion to any of the given investment projects (because the selection was absolutely random) we can say that Atlantis MIA comes as an indisputable winner as it leaves Thuram&Wilson behind in 8 out of 10 positions. A preference in online investment may surely be given to this program because it meets user requirements in most important areas like clear and understandable investment strategy, live support with many options to contact the company team, attractive affiliate program and user-friendly website.



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