Wholesale (Professional) eligibility criteria:
Wealth:
This test requires a client to have a net assets of at least $2.5 million, or gross income for each of the last two financial years of at least $250,000, as certified by an accountant. In determining the net assets or gross income, the net assets or gross income of a company or trust controlled by that person can be included.
Size of Business:
The financial product or service is provided for use in connection with a business that is not a small business. For a business to be considered as NOT a small business, the business must have:
- 20 or more employees; or
- if the business is or includes the manufacture of goods, then 100 or more employees.
If you believe that you qualify under this criterion, you will need to submit written confirmation by a Director where the client is a Corporation (or the Trustee where the client is a Trust) that proposed services and products are for use in connection with the business and that the business is not a small business (as defined above).
Professional Investor
You are considered a wholesale investor if you meet one or more of the following:
- you are Financial Services Licensee;
- you are a body regulated by APRA, other than a trustee of any of the following (within the. meeting of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993):
- a superannuation fund;
- an approved deposit fund;
- a pooled superannuation trust;
- a public sector superannuation scheme.
- you are a body registered under the Financial Corporations Act 1974;
- you are a trustee of:
- a superannuation fund;
- an approved deposit fund;
- a pooled superannuation trust; or
- a public sector superannuation scheme; within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993 and the fund, trust or scheme. has net assets of at least $10 million.
- you control at least $10 million (including any amount held by an associate or under a trust that the person manages);
- you are a listed entity, or related body corporate of a listed entity;
- you are an exempt public authority;
- you are a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, that:
- carries on a business of investment in financial products, interest in land or other investments; and
- for those purposes, invests funds received (directly or indirectly) following an offer or invitation to the public, within the meaning of section 82, the terms of which provided for the funds subscribed to be invested for those purposes.
- you operate a foreign entity that if established or incorporated in Australia, would be covered by one of the paragraphs above.