{"id":245,"date":"2013-08-26T20:10:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T01:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accreditedinvestorleads.com\/?p=245"},"modified":"2020-12-02T12:07:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T16:07:25","slug":"accredited-investors-defined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.accreditedinvestorleads.com\/accredited-investors-defined\/","title":{"rendered":"Accredited Investors Defined"},"content":{"rendered":"
Private placement offerings are regulated under Regulation D, under the Securities Act of 1933. \u00a0The SEC regulates the sale of securities and takes enforcing its guidelines very seriously. The Act provides companies with a number of exemptions that prevent a company from having to officially register their offering like they would when going public.\u00a0 In order to take advantage of the Reg D exemption companies must follow the guidelines set forth by the SEC, the primary of which is selling to Accredited Investors.\u00a0 When raising capital through a private offering it is important to understand how the Securities and Exchange Committee (SEC) defines an accredited investor \/ Accredited Investors Defined.<\/p>\n
Here is the SEC\u2019s posted Accredited Investors Defined<\/a>:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Issuers that are looking to raise money through a private offering need to be able to verify whether or not their investors are accredited in order to stay within the rules and guidelines of the SEC. With the SEC now allowing companies to advertise their private offerings those guidelines are now more detailed.\u00a0 Previously investors could attest to being accredited.\u00a0 Now the SEC will require verification through a third party source including financial documents like tax returns or a statement by a CPA.\u00a0 Any companies advertising a private offering need to understand these regulation changes.<\/p>\n Even more significantly as crowd funding sites get more popular, and as the SEC is examining the way of regulating the sale of shares through these means, due diligence is going to become more and more important for companies. Having access to accredited investors is going to become vital to keeping within the ratios of accredited versus unaccredited investors as set forth in the SEC. How the industry, crowdfunding, will rise to the challenge of meeting the changes to Regulation D is yet to be seen. This sums up how an Accredited Investors Defined.<\/p>\n Private placement offerings are regulated under Regulation D, under the Securities Act of 1933. \u00a0The SEC regulates the sale of securities and takes enforcing its guidelines very seriously. The Act provides companies with a number of exemptions that prevent a company from having to officially register their offering like they would when going public.\u00a0 In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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