100 Qs and As

1. What is the security?
2. What types of returns can a person receive when purchasing securities in the form of shares and/or bonds in the stock market?
3. What tax liabilities does an individual-resident acquire when they become holders of shares or bonds?
4. I have a small capital. It is not sufficient for operations in the real estate market and I want to invest it in securities.  How can I do it?
5. How can I purchase securities?
6. How can I sell securities?
7. What is the sale of securities by public offering or by private placement?
8. Where can I find the list of securities which I may purchase?
9. How can I select the broker who will make transactions with securities at the Special Trading Floor of the Financial Center?
10. What is clearing? Why is it necessary?
11. What is the share index? Why is it necessary?
12. What is the exchange rate and official exchange rate?
13. What is hedging?
14. What is the over-the-counter transaction?
15. What is Eurobond?
16. What is the ІРО?
17. What is the investment?
18. What is the securities portfolio?
19. What is the portfolio diversification?
20. What is the securitization?
21. What is the stock exchange?
22. What is the exchange transaction and how it is made?
23. What is the securities market?
24. What is the certificated security?
25. What does the uncertificated security mean?
26. What does the equity security mean?
27. What is the registered security?
28. What is the bearer security?
29. What is the order security?
30. What is the secondary securities market?
31. What is the securities quotation?
32. What is the share?
33. What is the preferred share?
34. What is the ordinary share?
35. What do the dividends mean?
36. What is the “golden share”?
37. Please, explain the terms “Listing” and “Delisting” 
38. What is the issuer?
39. What is the bond?
40. What types of investments can you name?
41. What is the venture investment?

42. What do direct investments mean?

43. What do portfolio investments mean?

44. What is the institutional investor?

45. What is the individual investor?

46. What does the derivative mean?

47. What is the option?

48. What is the futures contract?

49. What is the depositary receipt?

50. What is the swap?

51. What is the unit?

52. Please, define the term “Central Depositary”.

53. What does the transfer agent mean?

54. What is the registrar?

55. What is the custodian?

56. What does the “minority” or “minority shareholder” mean?

57. What is the shareholder?

58. What is the par value?

59. What is the market risk?

60. What is the circulation of securities?

61. What is the financial market?

62. What is the joint stock company?

63. Is the joint stock company liable for the property of its shareholders?

64. What is the principal shareholder?

65. What right does the controlling interest grant?

66. What do the authorized shares mean?

67. What does the placement of equity securities mean?

68. What is the ticker?

69. What does the broker mean?

70. What does the dealer mean?

71. What is the financial instrument?

72. What do internal documents of the securities market entity mean?

73. What is the underwriter?

74. What is the underwriting consortium?

75. What is the blocking?

76. What does the personal account mean?

77. What is the statement of personal account?

78. What information is contained in the system of registers of securities holders?

79. What is the nominal holding of securities?

80. What is the securities holder?

81. What is the convertible security?

82. What is the default?

83. What is the mutual fund?

84. What types of mutual funds exist?

85. What is the management company?

86. What is the investment unit?

87. What is the unitholder?

88. Who or what can purchase units of funds?

89. What is the meaning of investments in mutual funds?

90. Who or what owns the property of mutual funds?

91. What advantages do mutual funds have?

92. What tax liabilities do unitholders have?

93. What is difference between investments in the mutual fund and independent investments at the stock market?

94. Should the management company provide unitholders with any reports?

95. When the company should repurchase outstanding shares at the shareholder’s requirement?

96. In what cases dividends are not paid?

97. What does the preemption right mean?

98. How can the shareholder obtain the information on the activities of the joint stock company? What is the list of documents and what is the information provided to the shareholder by the company?

99. What documents confirm the shareholder’s title to equity securities and what is the procedure of confirmation of such a title?

100. What is the advantage of the securities market as a mechanism of the capital mobilization?