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LOS ANGELES (November 9, 2009) � TV Land and TV Guide Network today announced that they will jointly acquire basic cable rights to "Curb Your Enthusiasm," the award-winning HBO comedy series produced by and starring "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David. One of the most ground-breaking shows on television, "Curb Your Enthusiasm" has never before been seen on basic cable television and for the first time ever, this irreverent comedy series will be delivered to millions of new viewers by TV Guide Network and TV Land. In addition, both networks will acquire certain broadband, wireless and video-on-demand rights, bringing "Curb Your Enthusiasm" to multiple screens for fans to enjoy.
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" has recently garnered tremendous buzz and fan-following during its current season which features a long-awaited "Seinfeld" reunion 11 years after the show's finale. Airing now on HBO, the seventh season of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" stars members of the famed "Seinfeld" cast, who recreate their sitcom characters and also play themselves during the show.
"'Acquiring a series of this caliber truly underscores our commitment to defining TV Guide Network as a destination for some of the best shows on television," said Ryan O'Hara, President of TV Guide Network and TVGuide.com. "'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is our second major acquisition this year and it will become another key building block in our programming line-up for 2010 and beyond."
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"Curb Your Enthusiasm" stars Larry David as himself in an unsparing but tongue-in-cheek depiction of his life. Shot in a verite style and featuring celebrities playing themselves, the episodes are improvised by the actors from an outline created by David. The series also stars Cheryl Hines as David's wife Cheryl, Jeff Garlin as David's manager Jeff and Susie Essman as Jeff's wife Susie. The show was nominated for four Emmys� in 2008, including Outstanding Comedy Series. It won the Golden Globe� in the Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy category in 2002. In 2003, Robert B. Weide won a directing Emmys� for his work on the series. The series has also received awards from the Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America, Banff Television Festival, American Film Institute and Monte Carlo Television Festival, among others. "Curb Your Enthusiasm" is executive produced by Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Gavin Polone, Alec Berg, David Mandel, Jeff Schaffer, Tim Gibbons and Erin O'Malley.
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from the urls-we-dig-up deptCivilization has greatly depended on the our ability to store food for long periods of time. Without various food preservation techniques, our daily lives would be much different. Perhaps we've strayed a bit too far away from fresh foods, but the benefits of refrigeration, preservatives and food packaging probably outweigh the costs. Here are just a few articles on the topic of food preservation to ponder while you enjoy your next processed meal.
- Twinkies are back on stores shelves with a new and improved... shelf life of 45 days. Previously, Twinkies had a shelf life of just 26 days -- and not an indefinite lifespan that most people assume. [url]
- Canned foods can last a really long time, and some folks actually prefer the taste of canned items that have been aged. The definition of a shelf life is not about when a packaged food is inedible, but when the food acquires a noticeably different flavor compared to a newly-manufactured item. [url]
- About 70% of the food we eat is stored or transported at chilled temperatures. And if you think that's a high percentage: "An astonishing 80% of the nation's potato output is cut, processed, frozen, bagged, and distributed as French fries." [url]
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Japanese eel becomes latest 'endangered food'
Bad news for food-obssessed travelers to Japan.
Unagi -- the sweet broiled eel dish that's one of Japan's best eats -- may soon be going the way of shark's fins and fish balls: it gets overfished (check), it gets put on an endangered list (check) and it gets banned from restaurants (maybe).
The Japanese Ministry of the Environment officially added Japanese eel to its Red List of endangered fish on Friday, reported Yomiuri Shimbun.
According to the ministry's count, the species has declined by an alarming 90 percent over the last three generations. Yomiuiri Shumbun reported that the eel populations are 5 percent of what they were in the 1960s.
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Notably, another trend I've recognized is that in a large group of devs, there are often a committed few who really know their field and its history. That is always so amazing to me and I have a great deal of admiration for the commitment and passion they have for their art. Let's have more of that :-)
As for myself, these days I have many fewer hours a week which I can dedicate to programming compared to what I had 10 years ago. This is not surprising, given my career path. However, what it has meant is that I have to be much more focused when I do get those precious few hours a night (and sometimes just a few per week!). I've managed this in an ad hoc manner by taking quick notes about fields of study that pique my curiosity. Over time, these get filtered and a few pop to the top that I really want to give more time.
One of the driving forces of this filtering process is my never-ending curiosity: "Why is it that way?" "How did this come to be?" "What is the history behind that convention?" I tend to keep these musings to myself, exploring them at my leisure, finding some answers, and then moving on to the next question (usually this takes several weeks!).
However, given the observations of the recent years, I thought it might be constructive to ponder aloud, as it were. To explore in a more public forum, to set an example that the vulnerability of curiosity and "not knowing" is quite okay, that even those of us with lots of time in the industry are constantly learning, constantly asking.
My latest curiosity has been around recursion: who first came up with it? How did it make it's way from abstract maths to programming languages? How did it enter the consciousness of so many software engineers (especially those who are at ease in functional programming)? It turns out that an answer to this is actually quite closely related to a previous post I wrote on the secret history of lambda. A short version goes something like this:
Giuseppe Peano wanted to establish a firm foundation for logic and maths in general. As part of this, he ended up creating consistent axioms around the hard-to-define natural numbers, counting, and arithmetic operations (which utilized recursion). While visiting a conference in Europe, Bertrand Russell was deeply impressed by the dialectic talent of Peano and his unfailing clarity; he queried Peano as to his secret for success (Peano told him) and them asked for all of his published works. Russell proceeded to study these quite deeply. With this in his background, he eventually co-wrote the Principia Mathematica. Later, Alonzo Church (along with his grad students) sought to improve upon this, and in the process Alonzo Church ended up developing the lambda calculus. His student, John McCarthy, later created the first functional programming language, Lisp, utilizing concepts from the lambda calculus (recursion and function composition).
In the course of reading between 40-50 mathematics papers (including various histories) over the last week, I have learned far more than I had originally intended. So much so, in fact, that I'm currently working on a very fun recursion tutorial that not only covers the usual practical stuff, but steps the reader through programming implementations of the Peano axioms, arithmetic definitions, the Ackermann function, and parts of the lambda calculus.
I've got a few more blog post ideas cooking that dive into functions, their history and evolution. We'll see how those pan out. Even more exciting, though, was having found interesting papers discussing the evolution of functions and the birth of category theory from algebraic topology. This, needless to say, spawned a whole new trail of research, papers, and books... and I've got some great ideas for future blog posts/tutorials around this topic as well. (I've encountered category theory before, but watching it appear unsearched and unbidden in the midst of the other reading was quite delightful).
In closing, I enjoy reading not only the original papers (and correspondence between great thinkers of a previous era), but also the meanderings and rediscoveries of my peers. I've run across blog posts like this in the past, and they were quite enchanting. I hope that we continue to foster that in our industry, and that we see more examples of it in the future.
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was founded in June 2002 by PayPal and Tesla Motors co-founder Elon Musk who had invested US$100 million of his own money by March 2006. (...) The company has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2002, growing from 160 employees in November 2005 to more than 500 by July 2008, to over 1,100 in 2010.
"In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a... collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.
nonhocapito wrote:Everyone today hates corporations, unless they are driven by some agent/actor who is good at selling the product and making it look like some self-made epic human driven mythological enterprise, rather than another of those blood-sucking propaganda schemes to keep the people down and busy.
This method has been throughly tested in recent years in the world of IT, with Gates and Jobs most evidently.
Not strangely, "Elon Musk" also comes from the IT world, a world where "anything can happen", as we are instructed to believe, thank to the technological advances of the last two or three decades.
nonhocapito wrote:I am probably very dense about how such a business model would work, but the premises here are really hard to believe. No matter how much money you invest, most of it would go in technological research and experiments that would fail; unless you do not start from scratch, but with laboratories and knowledge and machines already very advanced, how do you make the whole thing profitable?
..."In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a... collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the Internet, it was suddenly like we got a nervous system. It's a hugely impactful thing.
What kind of a "nervous system" would that be once all the information that flies across it is going to be controlled and more importantly and tragically marked for consumption by the ownership or advertising of some corporation? It would be like a nervous system ridden by big-ass parasites...
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I don't know yet how useful this forum will be, but I'm submitting this question here because you did a nice piece expanding on Steve Gibson's three-router security solution at
I get that any malicious device that gains access to the LAN can listen to everything that goes by via the Ethernet protocol. I presume, however, that this device cannot communicate beyond the LAN unless it has a valid LAN IP address. I see two ways that this might be made more difficult:
1) One might limit the address range of the LAN (through the router's DHCP page) and then assign all available IP addresses to MAC addresses via DHCP reservations. Does this actually work (assuming that the interloper doesn't spoof its MAC addresses to match one of the existing allowed devices), or can a interloper simply duplicate the IP address of a permitted (active and/or detached) device and communicate over that?
2) One might set up MAC address filtering to prevent any but listed devices from obtaining IP addresses (assuming that they don't spoof their MAC addresses to match one of the existing allowed devices). Does this work?
2a) Corollary to (2): I assume that the MAC address filter does not prevent the interloper from gaining access to the Ethernet, hence listening to the traffic, but only prevents assignment of an IP address. Correct, or is it more effective than that?
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Philippines Passes Controversial Reproductive Health Bill - (REPORT)
(Video: Kabayan LA)
(HN, December 17, 2012) - Today in the Philippines both the Senate and the House of Representatives backed a bill that has been debated for 13 years, and defied the powerful Roman Catholic Church to vote in favor of state-funded contraception. Many women and supporters celebrated as news of the bill became known, though the two chambers passed slightly different versions of the bill, and they need to agree on a common version to put before President Benigno Aquino, who hopes to sign it into law by the end of the year.
This was the fourth attempt to pass a bill dealing with family planning issues in the heavily Catholic island nation with more than 80% of the population, 'religious'. The last three bills were blocked by the Church and its political allies - including revered boxer-turned-congressman Manny Pacquiao - who say the law could corrupt `moral values'. They say they will continue to oppose the new bill.
Supporters say it is a vital human rights measure in the impoverished country with one of the highest mortality rates in the region. Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, a key backer of the law, said that, despite the Church's opposition, "there is no force more powerful than an idea whose time has come".
Opposers such as Bishop Gabriel Reyes say, "What the Church will do is to continue instructing our people, telling them the evils of contraceptives". "They should not accept it because contraceptives are not pro-poor. It's not pro-children or pro-family. It is harmful against women, children and family."
A government health survey in 2011 found that the maternal mortality rate had risen by 36% between 2006 and 2010. Many maternity hospitals are struggling to cope with the number of births - and the UN appealed to the Philippines earlier this year to pass the bill.
"An idea whose time has come" - (PERSPECTIVE)
What transpired in Congress on Monday showed us that our lawmakers can get something done if they really want to.
At the House of Representatives, the reproductive health bill was passed on third reading through a vote of 133 in favor, 79 against, with seven abstentions.
The Catholic bishops had vowed to put up a strong fight after their defeat - by a slimmer margin - last week, when 113 House members said yes to the RH bill and 104 said no. Over the weekend, letters were read to the Catholic faithful from their Church leaders who reiterated that the measure was intrinsically evil. But no, the margin got even wider.
The bishops also hoped that the rabid opponents of the bill at the Senate would be able to sway their colleagues to block it upon second reading, also on Monday. The public was treated to a last-ditch showcase of tired arguments, the usual sanctimony and silly hairsplitting about sex having to be safe but not satisfying. There were also funny moments – like when a senator claimed to be the voice of the unborn child.
Nonetheless, the bill passed both second and third reading by a vote of 13-8.
Those belonging to the losing bloc insist that President Aquino dangled incentives to those who would vote in favor of the bill, or that the lawmakers who said yes to it were motivated by political gains.
They refused to acknowledge that support for the bill grew because of its own merit, not because of politics. Lawmakers crossed party lines in expressing their support or opposition to the bill.
Even the President was hesitant to show full support for the measure at the onset. He tried to change its name to responsible parenthood and to forge a dialogue with the Catholic bishops. He was not sure he could afford to alienate the men in robes who were his late mother's staunchest allies.
The battle has been noisy. It has been put on the table and discussed in the public sphere. Filipinos listened, thought for themselves, formed their own opinion and made their voices heard by the lawmakers they elected to represent them.
The Catholic leaders say it is not over and they will bring the fight to other fora. Their arrogance and self-righteousness have doomed them to downfall.
In the end, Senator Miriam Santiago, author of the Senate version of the measure, summed it up well when she quoted Victor Hugo, who said: "There is no force more powerful than an idea whose time has come."
The struggle has been long. Monday's vote is as historic as it has been overdue. Next on the agenda is making sure the RH Law's lofty objectives are not frustrated by bungled implementation.
"Church unfazed, will fight up to Supreme Court" - (PERSPECTIVE)
By Vito Barcelo with Maricel V. Cruz
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines on Monday said its fight against the Reproductive Health bill was not yet over despite the bill's approval on third and final reading in the House of Representatives on a vote of 133-79 with seven abstentions.
And voting 13-8, the Senators also approved the same bill, which had been certified as urgent by President Benigno Aquino III, on third and final reading. The RH bill aims to guarantee universal access to the methods of contraception, fertility control, sexual education and maternal health care.
"We will continue the fight in other fora, to the Supreme Court and in the level of individual conscience," Malolos Bishop Jose Oliveros said. "We have many allies at the Senate and we believe that their conscience will be their guiding principle in rejecting the RH bill". He said they would be issuing a pastoral letter on Tuesday to be read in all the parishes nationwide.
"The RH bill is a major attack on authentic human values and on Filipino cultural values regarding human life that all of us have cherished since time immemorial," Olivers said.
"Our position stands firmly on two of the core principles commonly shared by all who believe in God. As religious leaders we must proclaim this truth fearlessly in season and out of season."
House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez and Batangas Rep. Mark Leandro Mendoza, both critics of the RH bill, said many of their colleagues "had succumbed to the pressure by Malacañang."
Legazpi Bishop Joel Baylon said the 104 congressmen who initially voted No to the RH bill on December 12 during its second reading were "witnesses in This Year of Faith."
"They voted according to the dictate of their faith; we can verily recognize them as witnesses in this Year of Faith." Pope Benedict XVI declared Oct. 11, 2012 to Nov. 24, 2013 as the Year of Faith.
Saranggani Rep. Manny Pacquiao said his crushing boxing defeat to Juan Manuel Marquez two days before the vote on the RH bill strengthened his opposition to it.
On Monday, Catholic youth groups questioned President Benigno Aquino's anti-corruption campaign because of his support for the RH bill. "The bill contains excellent provisions, but it is rather like a cold soft drink with a drop of poison," the groups said. "That poison is its provision on contraception. The RH bill seeks to subsidize the enjoyment of sex without the corresponding responsibilities that it entails."
- These reports are assembled from The Straits Times, The Manila Standard, Catholic News and the BBC.


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We may send you direct marketing communications and information about our products and services that we expect may be of interest to you. These communications may be sent in various forms, including mail, SMS, fax and email. You consent to us sending you those direct marketing communications by any of those methods. At any time you may opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us by contacting us using the contact details below or by using the opt-out facilities provided in the marketing communications.
Please note that, if we are currently providing you with services or products, we will still need to send you essential information about your account, the relevant services or products and other information required by law.
To provide you with the services you require and for the purposes set out above, we may disclose your personal information to third party organisations. We take reasonable steps to ensure that third party organisations are bound by confidentiality and privacy obligations in relation to the protection of your personal information.
We may disclose your personal information to the following third parties:
1.service providers, such as your financial adviser. If a financial adviser's stamp appears on your application form or if you otherwise inform us of having a financial adviser, we may supply your financial adviser with information about your accounts unless you instruct us otherwise in writing;
2.other professional advisors such as accountants, lawyers, consultants and other business advisors as advised to us;
3.mail houses, archive providers, our related bodies corporate, contractors, or other third parties for the purposes specified above; and
4.other third parties where required, or allowed under law, or in connection with legal proceedings.
We will not sell your personal information to other organisations. Nor will we provide organisations outside the BlackRock group with your personal information for purposes unrelated to the management of your investment or the distribution of marketing materials.
We may also disclose your personal information to entities located overseas for one or more of the purposes set out above. Typically, these entities are located in the United States, the United Kingdom and India.
BlackRock operates as a global organisation and to this end, functions generally operate from dedicated centers which also provide shared services around the globe. Personal information (generally other than personal information held in relation to individual investors) may be held within applications on our portfolio management system or client relationship management system which are potentially accessible by our related bodies corporate in any country in which BlackRock has an office. A list of those countries is available here. Key data is held either at a BlackRock related party site or third party site.
We take reasonable steps to ensure that the overseas recipients of your personal information do not breach the privacy obligations relating to your personal information.
We invest considerable resources to keep your personal information secure from misuse, loss, interference, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. Access to and the use of personal information is regulated to prevent misuse or unlawful disclosure of the information. We use security procedures such as encryption, firewalls, intrusion detection and anti-virus technology to prevent unauthorised access. We also use valid log-in identification and password based security to achieve electronic information security. We retain information for as long as may be necessary to respond to issues that may arise at a later date, and longer where required by law. When personal information is no longer required by us, it is destroyed or de-identified.
As our website is linked to the internet, and the internet is inherently insecure, we cannot provide any assurance regarding the security of transmission of information you communicate to us online. We also cannot guarantee that the information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the internet. Accordingly, any personal information or other information which you transmit to us online is transmitted at your own risk.
You may contact us by mail, phone, fax or email using the details provided below and request access to your information. Before we give you access to information about you we will ask you to verify your identity. In normal circumstances we will give you full access to your information, however, at times there may be a legal reason why we must deny access, such as where granting access would interfere with the privacy of others or it would result in a breach of confidentiality. If access is denied we will give you the reasons for any refusal in writing and the mechanisms available to complain about the refusal.
There may be some charge to you to access your information depending on the ease of its retrieval. We will advise you of any cost when you seek the information. We will not charge you for making a request or for making any corrections to your personal information.
We will endeavour to ensure your personal information is kept accurate, complete, up to date and relevant. Please let us know if any of your details change.
If you believe that the personal information we store about you is incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate or misleading, you may ask us to amend it. If we do not agree that there are grounds for amendment, we will give you the reasons for any refusal in writing and the mechanisms available to complain about the refusal, and we will add a note to the personal information stating that you disagree with the information.
We may use "cookies" to help us tailor our website to better suit your needs (eg, we may use cookies to enable us to save any personal preferences indicated by you) and to provide a more effective route to various components of our website. If you choose to disable cookies, some of our website's functionality might be impaired. Cookies are small text files that are stored in your computer's memory and hard drive, in your mobile device or tablet when you visit certain web pages. They are used to enable websites to function or to provide information to the owners of a website or other third parties which receive data obtained from that website. This information might be about you, your preferences or your device and is mostly used to make the site work as you expect it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, but it can give you a more personalised web experience.
Cookies help us to provide customised services and information. We use cookies to tell us, in general terms, how and when pages in our websites are visited, what our users' technology preferences are – such as what type of video player they use – and whether our website is functioning properly. Depending on their purpose, some cookies will only operate for the length of a single browsing session, while others have a longer life span to ensure that they fulfil their longer-term purposes (as explained in more detail below). Please note that, however long a cookie's active life may be, you can delete cookies (and therefore stop any further data collection by them) as further described below.
If you are using a password-protected site, then the website may use cookies or other technology to help us authenticate you, store and recognise your configuration and user attributes, facilitate your navigation of the website and customise its content so that the information made available is likely to be of more interest to you.
In broad terms, we use cookies on our website for the following purposes:
1.Analytical purposes: Analytical cookies allow us to recognise, measure and track visitors to the website. This helps us to improve and develop the way the website works, for example, by determining whether site visitors can find information easily, or by identifying the aspects of the site that are of the most interest to them.
2.Usage preferences: Some of the cookies on the website are activated when visitors to our sites make a choice about their usage of the site. Our website then 'remembers' the settings preferences of the user concerned. This allows us to tailor aspects of the site to the individual user.
3.Terms and conditions: We use cookies on the website to record when a site visitor has seen a policy, such as this one, or provided consent, such as consent to the terms and conditions on our website. This helps to improve the user's experience of the site – for example, it avoids a user from repeatedly being asked to consent to the same terms.
4.Session management: The software that runs the website uses cookies for technical purposes needed by the internal workings of our servers. For instance, we use cookies to distribute requests among multiple servers, authenticate users and determine what features of the site they can access, verify the origin of requests, keep track of information about a user's session and determine which options or pages to display in order for the site to function.
5.Functional purposes: Functional purpose cookies store information that is needed by our applications to process and operate. For example, where transactions or requests within an application involve multiple workflow stages, cookies are used to store the information from each stage temporarily, in order to facilitate completion of the overall transaction or request.
6. Advertising: Advertising cookies allow us (or third parties) to monitor the behaviour of users of our website. This information is used to ensure that products and services highlighted to those individuals are targeted in a focused and relevant manner – e.g. through advertisements on our website or through advertisements on third party websites which are based on your experience with our website; or to monitor the effectiveness of those digital marketing campaigns. We also monitor whether the adverts displayed on our website are of interest to users and retain this information to ensure that adverts seen by users of our website over a period of time are appropriate.
We may disclose details about the general use of our website to third parties – for example, to demonstrate patterns of use to advertisers and other business partners. Information we pass on for this purpose will not include any personal data by which you may be identified.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, notify you when a cookie is set, or delete cookies that have already been set. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on our website.
We may include content on the website designed for display using Adobe Flash Player, such as animations, videos and tools. Local flash storage (often referred to as "Flash cookies") can be used to help improve your experience as a user. Flash storage is retained on your device in much the same way as standard cookies, but is managed directly by your Flash software. If you wish to disable or delete information stored locally in Flash, please see the documentation for your Flash software, located at www.adobe.com. Please note that, if you disable Flash cookies, some site functionality may not work.
When you visit our website, you may receive cookies that are set by third parties. The kind of cookies and the consequent data processing carried out by such third parties are regulated by the third party's privacy policy. We do not control the setting of these third party cookies. You may wish to check any such third party's website for more information about their use of cookies and how to manage them.
If you believe that your privacy has been breached, please contact our Privacy Officer using the contact information below and provide details of the incident so that we can investigate it.
We request that complaints about breaches of privacy be made in writing, so we can be sure about the details of the complaint. We will attempt to confirm as appropriate and necessary with you your understanding of the conduct relevant to the complaint and what you expect as an outcome. We will inform you whether we will conduct an investigation, the name, title, and contact details of the investigating officer and the estimated completion date for the investigation process.
After we have completed our enquiries, we will contact you, usually in writing, to advise the outcome and invite a response to our conclusions about the complaint. If we receive a response from you, we will assess it and advise if we have changed our view.
If you have any queries or concerns about the privacy of your information, please contact our Privacy Officer via the following:
Phone: 1300 366 100
Facsimile: 1300 366 107
Email: email@example.com
Mail: Level 26, 101 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
Please address all written requests: 'Attention: Privacy Officer'.
We will review this policy from time to time and may update it at our discretion. This policy was last updated in February 2018.
Individual investor
No specified requirements.
Financial Adviser
I declare that I am a financial services licensee, as defined by the Corporations Act 2001 and hold an Australian financial services licence.
Institutional Investor
I declare that I am a wholesale client, as defined by the Corporations Act 2001 and that I satisfy the requirements of section 761G of the Corporations Act.
Wholesale clients commonly include a person or entity: