Bryce J. McFarlane is the President and a Founding Partner of Khmer Trading Investment Group. Bryce holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of South Florida. Bryce is also a Certified Financial Planner™️ practitioner and is a member of the Financial Planning Association. He holds a bachelor's degree from Washington College and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University. As President of the firm, Bryce is responsible for the strategic direction of Heritage in addition to oversight of client service and new business development. He is a past president and current member of the Rotary Club of Pompano Beach. Bryce is a long-time member of the Planning and Zoning Board for the City of Lighthouse Point. Bryce also serves on the boards of the Nova Southeastern University Halmos College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography and the Hillsboro Lighthouse Preservation Society. Bryce resides in Lighthouse Point, Florida with his wife Laura and they have two children. Bryce enjoys boating, golfing and traveling.
Bryce grew up in very poor conditions. However, he is very ambitious and had intended since childhood, to help his family attain financial freedom. His older brother noticed young Bryce’s ambition early enough and supported him financially by working on construction sites. This sibling sacrifice helped Bryce put all his effort into education and made him hungrier for success and dedicated to the cause of uplifting his family!
Bryce graduated from the university and started working in the banking industry as an asset management executive. While here, he met his colleague NIKLAS ALAN SCHERER.
From the beginning, both got along well, even becoming great friends, However, Bryce was not quite fulfilled with his position in the bank. He realized, rather disappointedly, that banks cared more about their bottom line than their customers’ sustenance and progress. Moreover, the banks’ operations heaped a load of inconveniences on their customers; the ever-decreasing interests due to annual inflations, zero anonymity, and exclusion of certain sections of the society, all irked Bryce.
The outlined frustration fuelled an idea that shall soon change the world! Bryce’s idea, the push behind , is giving everyone the means to generate enough passive income to subsist on. The idea, however, has thrust Bryce on a collision course with the banks; one that demanded he gets assistance before proceeding. He asked his old friend NIKLAS to help him found an equalized financial system, the opposing force that offers the solutions to fight the banks’ elfish regimes.
NIKLAS quickly recognized the potential of the idea and its many benefits and agreed to join Bryce. Both retired from the bank towards the end of 2014 and started working on this project.
Their vision is to change the world. A vision to offer people equal earning possibilities. To provide an opportunity for people to simply earn money without much effort. Their vision sees everybody – a family like Bryce’s included, having the opportunity to afford the luxury. This is the vision that drives !
Unlike Bryce, NIKLAS ALAN SCHERER grew up in affluence in America. He is the son of a onetime leading investment banker in the US, and he showed signs of following after his father right from the onset.
Niklas endeavored to understand the business world from a tender age. He decided to follow in his father´s footsteps when he was just an adolescent, and his goal was to take the position of his father when the old man eventually retired!
Niklas is passionate about numbers and knows how to deal with them. He studied in a private school and his father provided him with every financial resource so that he’d one day emulate his role model. At 18, he enrolled to study Economics with a focus on Banking and Finance. His fierce ambition drove him to complete internships in England and abroad from a very early age.
After graduation, Niklas worked in the banking industry as an asset management executive. He started in a different bank from where his father worked. He wanted to get to his father’s position and probably outdo him but on his own and not relying on his father’s connections. His plans worked just as well! After only 6 years, Niklas had attained a position of high responsibility. He remained in the said position for another two years before his exploits and knowledgeability attracted the attention of his father.
Soon, he was the executive director of the bank where his father worked. While here, he met his colleague, Bryce J. McFarlane. Niklas didn’t see himself leaving his position especially after the much work he put in. However, the idea of Aligned Enterprise got him convinced. Both him and Bryce left the company to work on a whole new type of financial service institution. One where everyone has an opportunity to participate! They are convinced that the high volatility in the cryptocurrency market offers the right condition for them to offer the services they envision.
Now with over $9 Million of investments and over 160,000 Users at khmer-tradinginvestment.com, Niklas is very proud of his decisions to ditch the bank and become the new venture’s CFO. And, the statistics are permanently growing!