A professional investor is an investor who has the experience, knowledge, and competence to make their own investment decisions and correctly assess the risks involved.

Categories ofprofessional investors: 

• Eligible counterparties 
• Credit institutions
• Investment firms and S.S.I.F.
• Insurance companies
• Collective investment undertakings and their management companies
• Pension funds and their management companies
• Entities whose business consists of trading in commodities and commodity derivatives
• Traders
• Other financial institutions/institutional investors authorized and regulated in the EU or in a third country
• National and regional governments, including public bodies that manage public debt at national or regional level, central banks, international and supranational institutions such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the European Central Bank, the European Investment Bank, and other similar international organizations