How to invest with us at Investment Partners Fund

All of our Investment Partners Group representatives welcome your inquiries and can be reached by phone, email or contact form.

We will set up a time to discuss your goals and confirm whether you are an eligible investor.
We will prepare the documentation required to invest.
We will assist in managing the process of becoming a client.

This website is intended to provide information only and shall not be deemed as or considered to constitute advice on, or as an offer, inducement or solicitation to trade in any securities. In the event that the Investment Partners Group should decide to distribute units in IP Value Fund, the units shall only be offered to eligible subscribers on an exempt basis pursuant to exemptions from prospectus requirements under applicable securities regulations. Investors are advised to seek independent legal and financial advice.

For advice on whether a Fund or Private Equity opportunity with the Investment Partners Group is an appropriate investment for you; we recommend that you contact your independent registered investment advisor.

Dealing Representative:
James Maxwell 416-800-8969 | jmaxwell@ipfund.ca

Are you an accredited investor?

The following information is intended for “accredited investors” only. By accepting below, you are representing to the Investment Partners Fund Inc., and acknowledge that the Investment Partners Fund Inc., is relying on such representation in providing information to you, that you are an accredited investor within the meaning of National Instrument 45-106 Prospectus and Registration Exemption (“NI 45-106”) by virtue of being one of the following:

(a)

a Canadian financial institution, or a Schedule III bank;

(b)

the Business Development Bank of Canada incorporated under the Business Development Bank of Canada Act;

(c)

a subsidiary of any person referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b), if the person owns all of the voting securities of the subsidiary, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors of that subsidiary;

(d)

a person registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada, as an adviser or dealer, other than a person registered solely as a limited market dealer under one or both of the Securities Act (Ontario), or the Securities Act (Newfoundland and Labrador);

(e)

an individual registered or formerly registered under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada as a representative of a person referred to in paragraph (d);

(f)

the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada, or any crown corporation, agency or wholly owned entity of the Government of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada;

(g)

a municipality, public board or commission in Canada and a metropolitan community, school board, the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal or an intermunicipal management board in Québec;

(h)

any national, federal, state, provincial, territorial or municipal government of or in any foreign jurisdiction, or any agency of that government;

(i)

a pension fund that is regulated by either the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (Canada) or a pension commission or similar regulatory authority of a jurisdiction of Canada;

(j)

an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, beneficially owns, directly or indirectly, financial assets having an aggregate realizable value that before taxes, but net of any related liabilities, exceeds CDN$1,000,000;

(k)

an individual whose net income before taxes exceeded CDN$200,000 in each of the two most recent calendar years or whose net income before taxes combined with that of a spouse exceeded CDN$300,000 in each of the two most recent calendar years and who, in either case, reasonably expects to exceed that net income level in the current calendar year;

(l)

an individual who, either alone or with a spouse, has net assets of at least CDN$5,000,000;

(m)

a person, other than an individual or investment fund, that has net assets of at least CDN$5,000,000 as shown on its most recently prepared financial statements;

(n)

an investment fund that distributes or has distributed its securities only to:

(i)

a person that is or was an accredited investor at the time of the distribution;

(ii)

a person that acquires or acquired securities in the circumstances referred to in sections 2.10 and 2.19 of NI 45-106, or

(iii)

a person described in paragraph (i) or (ii) that acquires or acquired securities under section 2.18 of NI 45-106;

(o)

an investment fund that distributes or has distributed securities under a prospectus in a jurisdiction of Canada for which the regulator or, in Québec, the securities regulatory authority, has issued a receipt;

(p)

a trust company or trust corporation registered or authorized to carry on business under the Trust and Loan Companies Act (Canada) or under comparable legislation in a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction, acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by the trust company or trust corporation, as the case may be;

(q)

a person acting on behalf of a fully managed account managed by that person, if that person:

(i)

is registered or authorized to carry on business as an adviser or the equivalent under the securities legislation of a jurisdiction of Canada or a foreign jurisdiction; and

(ii)

in Ontario, is purchasing a security that is not a security of an investment fund;

(r)

a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) that, in regard to the trade, has obtained advice from an eligibility adviser or an adviser registered under the securities legislation of the jurisdiction of the registered charity to give advice on the securities being traded;

(s)

an entity organized in a foreign jurisdiction that is analogous to any of the entities referred to in paragraphs (a) to (d) or paragraph (i) in form and function;

(t)

a person in respect of which all of the owner of interests, direct, indirect or beneficial, except the voting securities required by law to be owned by directors, are persons that are accredited investors;

(u)

an investment fund that is advised by a person registered as an adviser or a person that is exempt from registration as an adviser, or

(v)

a person that is recognized or designated by the securities regulatory authority or, except in Ontario and Québec, the regulator as:

(i)

an accredited investor; or

(ii)

an exempt purchaser in Alberta or British Columbia after NI 45-106 comes into force.

(w)

a trust established by an accredited investor for the benefit of the accredited investor’s family members of which a majority of the trustees are accredited investors and all of the beneficiaries are the accredited investor’s spouse, a former spouse of the accredited investor or a parent, grandparent, brother, sister, child or grandchild of that accredited investor, of that accredited investor’s spouse or of that accredited investor’s former spouse.

Definitions:

“Canadian financial institution” means:

(a)

an association governed by the Cooperative Credit Associations Act (Canada) or a central cooperative credit society for which an order has been made under section 473(1) of that Act, or

(b)

a bank, loan corporation, trust company, trust corporation, insurance company, treasury branch, credit union, caisse populaire, financial services cooperative, or league that, in each case, is authorized by an enactment of Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada to carry on business in Canada or a jurisdiction of Canada;

“EVCC” means an employee venture capital corporation that does not have a restricted constitution, and is registered under Part 2 of the Employee Investment Act (British Columbia), R.S.B.C. 1996 c. 112, and whose business objective is making multiple investments;

“financial assets” means:

(a)

cash,

(b)

securities, or

(c)

a contract of insurance, a deposit or an evidence of a deposit that is not a security for the purposes of securities legislation;

“fully managed account” means an account of a client for which a person makes the investment decisions if that person has full discretion to trade in securities for the account without requiring the client’s express consent to a transaction;

“investment fund” means a mutual fund or a non-redeemable investment fund, and, for greater certainty in British Columbia, includes an EVCC and a VCC;

“person” includes:

(a)

an individual,

(b)

a corporation,

(c)

a partnership, trust, fund and an association, syndicate, organization or other organized group of persons, whether incorporated or not, and

(d)

an individual or other person in that person’s capacity as a trustee, executor, administrator or personal or other legal representative;

“related liabilities” means:

(a)

liabilities incurred or assumed for the purpose of financing the acquisition or ownership of financial assets, or

(b)

liabilities that are secured by financial assets;

“Schedule III bank” means an authorized foreign bank named in Schedule III of the Bank Act (Canada);

“spouse” means, an individual who,

(a)

is married to another individual and is not living separate and apart within the meaning of the Divorce Act (Canada), from the other individual, or

(b)

is living with another individual in a marriage-like relationship, including a marriage-like relationship between individuals of the same gender; or

(c)

in Alberta, is an individual referred to in paragraph (a) or (b), or is an adult interdependent partner within the meaning of the Adult Interdependent Relationships Act (Alberta);

(d)

“subsidiary” means in issuer that is controlled directly or indirectly by another issuer and includes a subsidiary of that subsidiary;

“VCC” means a venture capital corporation registered under Part 1 of the Small Business Venture Capital Act (British Columbia), R.S.B.C. 1996 c. 429, whose business objective is making multiple investments.

How to Invest With Us

Contact Us

Are you an accredited investor?

Definitions: