Our List of Terms page provides clear and concise definitions of key financial and investment-related terms to help you navigate our services with confidence. Whether you’re new to investing or an experienced investor, this resource ensures you have a solid understanding of the terminology used in our industry.
- Admitted to trading
- Analyst
- Ask price
- Asset
- Asset allocation
- Auditor
- Bid/Ask prices
- Bonds
- Bonus issue
- Book building
- Broker
- Broker-Dealer
- Broker Dealer
- Capital stock
- Central Securities Clearing System Plc (CSCS)
- Central Securities Depository (CSD)
- Clearing house
- Closed-end fund
- Common stock
- Corporate bond
- Coupon
- Custodian
- Data vendor
- Dealer
- Dealing member
- Debenture
- Debt security
- Delisting
- Dematerialization
- Demutualization
- Derivatives
- Dividend
- Dividend per share (DPS)
- Earnings per share (EPS)
- End-to-End
- Equity
- Equity REITs
- Exchange traded fund (ETF)
- Exchange traded note (ETN)
- Exchange traded product (ETP)
- Ex-Dividend
- Ex-Dividend date
- Ex-Rights
- Ex-Rights date
- Financial adviser
- Foreign investor
- Foreign portfolio investment (FPI)
- Growth stock
- Hybrid REITs
- Income stock
- Index
- Indices (or indexes)
- Initial Public Offering (IPO)
- Institutional investor
- Investment bank
- Investment fund
- Investment product (or security or investment instrument)
- Investor
- Issuer
- Issuing house
- Liquidity
- Liquidity provider
- Listing
- Market capitalization
- Market intermediary
- Market maker
- Market operator
- Market participant
- Markets
- Market trend
- Merger/Acquisition
- Mortgage REITs
- Mutual fund (or memorandum quotation)
- Net asset value (NAV)
- Open-ended fund
- Outstanding shares
- Portfolio
- Portfolio manager
- Preference stock (or preference shares or preferred stock or preferred shares)
- Price-to-earnings ratio (or P/E ratio or P/E)
- Professional investor (or broker-dealer)
- Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
- Receiving agent
- Receiving bank
- Registrar
- Reporting accountants
- Return on assets (ROA)
- Return on equity (ROE)
- Rights
- Risk
- Secondary Offering
- Share purchase rights
- Subscription rights
- Supplementary market maker