Institutional Investor
Please indicate the investor status that satisfies one of the following definitions in accordance with Rule 501(a) of Regulation D of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
Please select from one of the Accredited Investor options:
You are an accredited investor because you are:
1. Corporations, Partnerships, Business Trusts, Limited Liability Companies and Other Entities
A corporation, a limited liability company, a Massachusetts or similar business trust or a partnership with total assets in excess of $5,000,000; or
An entity (other than a trust) in which all of the equity owners are accredited investors.
2. Trusts:
A trust, with total assets in excess of $5,000,000 directed by a "sophisticated person"; or
A revocable grantor trust that may be amended or revoked at any time by the grantor(s) in which each grantor is a natural person who is an accredited investor.
3. Banks or Savings & Loans:
A bank as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act or a savings and loan association or other institution referenced in Section 3(a)(5)(A) of the Securities Act whether acting in its individual or fiduciary capacity.
4. Insurance Companies:
An insurance company as defined in Section 2(13) of the Securities Act.
5. Business Development Companies:
A private business development company as defined in Section 202(a)(22) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (the "Advisers Act"); or
A business development company as defined in Section 2(a)(48) of the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the "1940 Act"); or
A rural business development company as defined in Section 384A of the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act.
6. Broker-Dealers:
A broker or dealer registered pursuant to Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act")
7. Employee Benefit Plans and Other Tax-Exempt Entities:
An "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA, and the decision to invest in the Fund was made by a plan fiduciary; or
An "employee benefit plan" within the meaning of ERISA and has total assets in excess of $5,000,000; or
A plan established and maintained by a state, its political subdivisions, or any agency or instrumentality of a state or its political subdivisions for the benefit of its employees, and has total assets in excess of $5,000,000; or
An individual retirement account, Keogh Plan or other self-directed defined contribution plan in which a participant may exercise control over the investment of assets credited to his or her account and the investing participant is an accredited investor; or
An organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Code, was not formed for the specific purpose of acquiring Shares and has total assets in excess of $5,000,000.
8. Investment Companies:
An investment company registered under the 1940 Act; or
A Small Business Investment Company licensed by the Small Business Administration under Section 301(c) or (d) of the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.
9. Investment Advisers:
An SEC- or state-registered investment adviser; or
An exempt reporting adviser under Section 203(m) or Section 203(l) of the Advisers Act.
10. Family Offices:
A "family office," (i) with assets under management in excess of $5,000,000; or
A "family client" of a family office meeting the requirements stated above.
11. Other Entities:
An entity, such as an Indian tribe, labor union, governmental body or fund, or an entity organized under the laws of a foreign country, that owns "investments" in excess of $5,000,000.
Please select from one of the Qualified Purchaser options:
You are a "qualified purchaser" for the reason(s) indicated below:
1. Family Owned Companies:
A company that owns not less than $5,000,000 in investments and that is owned directly or indirectly by two or more natural persons who are related as siblings or spouse (including former spouses), or who are the direct lineal descendants of such persons by birth or adoption, the spouses of such persons, the estates of such persons, or foundations, charitable organizations or trusts established by or for the benefit of such persons.
2. Trusts
An entity whose trustees or other authorized decision makers are accredited investors.
3. Other Entities:
An entity that is acting for its own account or the accounts of other qualified purchasers, which in the aggregate owns and invests on a discretionary basis not less than $25,000,000 in "investments."
4. Employee Benefit Plans:
The entity is an individual retirement account, Keogh Plan or other self-directed defined contribution plan in which a participant may exercise control over the investment of assets credited to his or her account, and the investing participant is a qualified purchaser.
Institutional Investor
Please indicate the investor status that satisfies one of the following definitions in accordance with Rule 501(a) of Regulation D of the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
Professional Investor Status
You are a "professional investor" for the reasons indicated below:
1. You are one of the following entities, which is required to be authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets:
a credit institution
an investment firm
another authorized or regulated financial institution
an insurance company
a collective investment scheme or a management company of such a scheme
a pension fund or the management company of a pension fund
a commodity derivatives dealer
any other institutional investor
2. You are a large undertaking, being an undertaking meeting two of the following size requirements on a company basis:
Balance sheet total of EUR 20 million
Net turnover of EUR 40 million
Own funds of EUR 2 million
3. You are:
a national or regional government, including a public body that manages public debt at national or regional level, a Central Bank, an international or supranational institution such as the World Bank, the IMF, the ECB, the EIB and other similar international organizations.
another institutional investor, whose main activity is to invest in financial instruments, including an entity dedicated to the securitization of assets or other financing transactions.