Well Informed Investors

Well Informed Investors

A Well-Informed Investor is any investor who is not professional, and satisfies the following criteria:

Confirms that:
  1. He either has sufficient knowledge and experience in financial and business matters in order to be able to assess the benefits and associated risks; or 
  1. His business is related to the management, acquisition or sale of assets, either for its own account or on behalf of third parties, of the same types as the investments of the Fund; 
AND
  1. Invests at least €125.000; or 
  1. Has been assessed as a sufficiently well-informed investor by a credit institution, an AIFM, a UCITS Management Company, an Investment Firm, or any other EU subthreshold AIFM; or
  1. Is senior officer in any of the entities mentioned above;
  2. Irrespective of the above mentioned, a well informed investor is a person who effectively directs the activities of the Company or its external manager, or is a person who manages the investment of that particular Fund.
Irrespective of the above mentioned, a well informed investor is a person who effectively directs the activities of the Company or its external manager, or is a person who manages the investment of that particular Fund.

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