An accredited investor is an individual or a business entity that is allowed to trade securities that may not be registered with financial authorities.

The “accredited investor” concept comes out of securities law dating all the way back to the Great Depression. It started with The Securities Act of 1933. Ultimately, the government wanted to keep novice investors out of investments they didn't have the knowledge or experience to thoroughly evaluate.


In order to become an Accredited Investor:

• Income of $200,000

• If married, combined income of $300,000

• Or a net worth of $1 million


Accredite Incestors can buy:

private equity

private placements

hedge funds

venture capital

equity crowdfunding

IPO's

Pre-IPO's

For Your Time:

No. But it is the biggest scam ever. They put those limits on to “protect us” but in reality it’s just a barrier of entry put in place to keep the normies poor. Stupid people will squander away their money regardless.

Exactly, it was really made to keep the poor even poorer and the rich even richer.

most fund managers underperform their benchmarks.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/18/stoc...ing-worse.html

I think you can get burned easy and hard in a lot of the stuff you listed OP, so I'm sure the income/net worth requirements are there to ensure participants are capable of covering losses if chit goes sideways

You also need to be playing with big numbers for it to be worth their time, you're not throwing a few hundred bucks into a company prior to IPO. If you're not making decent money or worth $1mill+, you're not gonna have the cash to get a seat at the table.

Is it worth applying for?