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Do not fill out the Qualification Form
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VCM has stopped accepting new partners to its VEP and VEP II partnerships. Thus, very few requests for access to VCM website are being granted at this time. If you still wish to get access to the VCM Website, please send us an email describing the nature of your interest and your plans for using the VCM Website. We will either grant you access, or invite you to fill out the Qualification Form.
At this time, Qualification Forms filled out without a prior contact with us will not be reviewed, will be discarded and will not be responded to.
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Regulatory Requirements – Summary
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Various regulations do not allow General Partners of limited partnerships to distribute the performance record of the General Partner and of the particular partnerships under management to the general public, except in very general terms. The same regulations stipulate that those who may have access to such information and who the General Partner may accept as limited partners satisfy certain financial requirements. If a person or an entity satisfies these financial requirements, they are called an “accredited investor” or a “qualified purchaser” depending on the regulations under which a given partnership operates.
Thus, the general public has access only to general information about VCM and the partnerships it manages. In order to access more specific information about the VCM Investment Framework and its past investment record, you must submit a Qualification Form, or be approved by VCM based on its existing knowledge of your financial parameters. Certain parties such as the press, VCM suppliers, and potential employees may be granted access to restricted areas of the VCM website provided they do not act as potential investors.
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Terminology
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A few words about the terminology used on this website: You have already noticed the terms “partner,” “limited partner,” “General Partner,” “investment manager,” “fund,” and “partnership.”
While the exact definitions of these words can be found in the legal documents elsewhere on this website, for most purposes it is sufficient to remember that the General Partner (in this case, VCM) manages the partnerships.
The partners in these partnerships are called “limited partners,” or sometimes simply “partners.” Partnerships are also sometimes called “funds,” and limited partners are sometimes called “clients.”
The General Partner of the partnerships is sometimes called the “investment manager” of the partnerships.
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Mechanics of Access – Summary
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The Site Map will help you understand which areas of the website are restricted and who may access them. However, summaries of most restricted areas are available to the general public.
After you have filled out the online Qualification Form, we will review your information and either issue you an Access Code, deny your application, or request further information.
Our use of the information that you provide us is strictly for the purpose of satisfying the regulatory requirements related to “qualified” and “accredited” investors. We use this information in the most restricted fashion possible. Please see our Privacy Statement for more information.
If you are ready to continue, you can fill out a Qualification Form.
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Mechanics of Access – Details
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The general public, also referred to as “visitors,” is given access to the unrestricted areas of the VCM website. All those who are given access to many restricted portions of the website are called “Registered Guests.”
In addition, there are two more restricted areas of the website that even Registered Guests do not have access to. Access to these areas is given to Observers and Partners. “Observers” are Registered Guests who, after being qualified by VCM, are given access to detailed performance reports and to legal documentation that they will need to sign to become limited partners in one of the several VCM partnerships. “Partners” are given access to the entire website, including the areas used for day-to-day communication with the limited partners, and the website area containing information and reports prepared for each limited partner.
Past performance quarterly reports are available to the Observers, and summaries of past performance are available to Registered Guests. Most information that at first is available only to Partners, with time (once its proprietary nature diminishes or other distribution restrictions grow irrelevant) becomes available to Observers and Registered Guests. This information allows them to study to the maximum degree possible the decision making at VCM and the style of VCM’s communication with its limited partners.
As to the precise mechanics, after you have filled out the Qualification Form – it takes less than a minute, and the form is available on this website – the form will be reviewed by VCM. Either a temporary Access Code will be emailed to you, or the application may be denied by VCM, and an email will be sent to you. This email may request further information, or VCM may call you to ascertain that you satisfy the regulatory requirements.
Enter your temporary Access Code on the Login Page, then you can choose your own permanent Username and Password for future use of the website.
Alternatively, a temporary Access Code may be sent to you based on VCM’s determination that you satisfy all requirements to become a Registered Guest or an Observer and a decision by VCM to invite you to become one. You will not have to submit a Qualification Form in this case.
Our use of the information that you provide in the Qualification Form and other communications with us is strictly for the purpose of satisfying the regulatory requirements related to “qualified” and “accredited” investors. Our Privacy Statement, posted on this website, further describes how we protect your privacy. Rest assured that after 20 years in the business of managing money, we understand the value of our clients’ and observers’ privacy. We use the information provided to us in the most restricted fashion, and we certainly do not provide it to any third parties who would use it for marketing purposes, or for any purposes other than serving you as our client or prospect.
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Some Helpful Hints for Navigating this Website
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– If you have lost track of where exactly you are on the website, the name of the chapter you are inside of is highlighted on the navigation bar at the left of the page.
– Your Username and access privileges are displayed at the top edge of the page.
– In the Site Map you can look up all documents and pages you have access to. Just review the column of the site map for your designated access level.
– Certain security measures may prevent you from easily copying some pages of the website; however, you can print them out. Make sure your printer is set to landscape (lateral) page printing; otherwise, the text on the right edge of the page may be cut off.
– The same security measures may disable your access if you have been logged-in for a long period of time without navigating the website. Simply log-in again.
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To fill out a Qualification Form, please click here
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