- Industry: Financial services
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A fund set up to pay the pension benefits of a company's workers after retirement.
Industry:Financial services
Sale of a new issue of stock or bonds, as distinguished from a secondary distribution.
Industry:Financial services
Future liabilities resulting from pension commitments made by a corporation. Accounting for pension liabilities varies widely by country.
Industry:Financial services
Earnings available for the payment of dividends to common stockholders divided by the number of common shares outstanding.
Industry:Financial services
Currency options with a guaranteed exchange rate that enable buyers who like an asset, German bonds for example, but not the asset's pricing currency, to arrange payment in a different currency for a fee.
Industry:Financial services
A form of poison pill providing that in the event of a hostile takeover attempt, any excess pension plan assets can be used to benefit pension plan participants. This prevents the raiding firm from using the pension assets to finance the takeover. In the context of corporate governance, these provisions prevent an acquirer from using surplus cash in the pension fund of the target in order to finance an acquisition. Surplus funds are required to remain the property of the pension fund and to be used for plan participants' benefits.
Industry:Financial services
Where a newly issued security is first offered. All subsequent trading of this security occurs is done in the secondary market.
Industry:Financial services
A fund that is established for the payment of retirement benefits.
Industry:Financial services
