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Important informationMiFID II investor categories
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By accessing this site and all associated information, hereunder information about our alternative investment funds, you confirm that you qualify as a “Professional Investor” under MiFID II (Directive 2014/65/EU), “Semi-Professional Investors” under paragraph 5 of the Danish implementation of the AIFMD (Directive 2011/61/EU), or Well-Informed Investors as defined under Article 2 of the amended Luxembourg law related to reserved alternative investment funds. For more information on investor categories in MiFID II .
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All investments in securities involve risks, which include (among others) the risk of adverse or unanticipated market-, financial- or political developments and, in international transactions, currency risk. Due to such risks, the value of securities may appreciate as well as depreciate.
The presented funds employ leverage, which may increase volatility and amplify both gains and losses, thereby entailing a higher level of risk. The funds can employ leverage of up to 20 times the assets under management of the respective funds.
Past performance does not predict future returns. Future performance is subject to taxation which depends on the personal situation of each investor, and which may change in the future.
Presented scenarios are an estimate of future performance based on evidence from the past on how the value of this investment varies, and/or current market conditions and are not an exact indicator. What you will get will vary depending on how the market performs and how long you keep the investment/product. Simulated past performance (back-test) is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
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Professional client
Professional client is a client who possesses the experience, knowledge and expertise to make its own investment decisions and properly assess the risks that it incurs. In order to be considered to be professional client, the client must comply with the following criteria:
- Entities that are required to be regulated or authorised to operate in the financial markets:
- Credit institutions
- Investment firms
- Other authorized or regulated financial institutions
- Insurance companies
- Collective investment schemes and management companies of such schemes
- Pension funds and management companies of such funds
- Commodity and commodity derivative dealers
- Locals
- Other institutional investors
- Large undertakings meeting two of the following size requirements on a company basis:
- Balance sheet total of at least EUR 20 million
- Net turnover of at least EUR 40 million
- Own funds of at least EUR 2 million
- National and regional governments, including public bodies that manage public debt at national or regional level, Central Banks, International and supranational institutions such as the World Bank, the IMF, the ECB, the EIB and other similar international organisations.
- Other institutional investors whose main activity is to invest in financial instruments, including entities dedicated to the securitisation of assets or other financing transactions.
Clients who may be treated as professional investors on request
Valid only if an adequate assessment of the expertise, experience and knowledge of the client, undertaken by the investment firm, gives reasonable assurance, in light of the nature of the transactions or services envisaged, that the client is capable of making investment decisions and understanding the risks involved.
The fitness test applied to managers and directors of entities licensed under Directives in the financial field could be regarded as an example of the assessment of expertise and knowledge. In the case of small entities, the person subject to that assessment shall be the person authorised to carry out transactions on behalf of the entity.
In the course of that assessment, as a minimum, two of the following criteria shall be satisfied:
- the client has carried out transactions, in significant size, on the relevant market at an average frequency of 10 per quarter over the previous four quarters,
- the size of the client’s financial instrument portfolio, defined as including cash deposits and financial instruments exceeds EUR 500 000,
- the client works or has worked in the financial sector for at least one year in a professional position, which requires knowledge of the transactions or services envisaged.
Eligible Counterparties
This is a distinct category that can be applied to a subset of Professional clients. Eligible counterparties receive the least investor protection.
- Member States shall recognise as eligible counterparties for the purposes of this Article investment firms, credit institutions, insurance companies, UCITS and their management companies, pension funds and their management companies, other financial institutions authorised or regulated under Union law or the national law of a Member State, national governments and their corresponding offices including public bodies that deal with public debt, central banks and supranational organisations.
- Member States may also recognise as eligible counterparties other undertakings meeting pre-determined proportionate requirements, including quantitative thresholds. In the event of a transaction where the prospective counterparties are located in different jurisdictions, the investment firm shall defer to the status of the other undertaking as determined by the law or measures of the Member State in which that undertaking is established.
- Member States shall ensure that the investment firm, when it enters into transactions in accordance with paragraph 1 with such undertakings, obtains the express confirmation from the prospective counterparty that it agrees to be treated as an eligible counterparty. Member States shall allow the investment firm to obtain this confirmation either in the form of a general agreement or in respect of each individual transaction.
- Member States may recognise as eligible counterparties third country entities equivalent to those categories of entities referred to in paragraph 1.
- Member states may also recognise as eligible counterparties third country undertakings such as those referred to in paragraph 2 on the same conditions and subject to the same requirements as those laid down in paragraph 2.