You are likely to be a Qualified Investor if you are:
- a regulated financial intermediary such as a bank, a securities firm, a portfolio manager, a trustee, a fund management company or and an asset manager of collective investment schemes or an insurance company;
- a central bank, a public entity with professional treasury operations, a national or supranational public entity with professional treasury operations;
- an occupational pension scheme with a professional treasury operations or other occupational pension institution providing professional treasury operations;
- a company or a private investment structure with professional treasury operations for HNW private clients;
- a large company exceeding two of the following parameters: (a) balance sheet total of CHF 20 million; (b) turnover of CHF 40 million; equity of CHF 2 million;
- a private client who has concluded a permanent asset management agreement or a permanent advisory agreement in writing with a financial intermediary or an independent asset manager pursuant to Swiss law unless they have declared in writing that they do not wish to be treated as such. Such declaration must be made in writing or in another form demonstrable via text.
The term Qualified Investor pursuant to CISA covers in particular professional clients and institutional clients in terms of the Swiss Financial Services Act (FINSA).
You are kindly requested to contact us should you not fall within one of these categories of “Qualified Investor”.