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Rights onShares trading with rights attached to them.Rights on Similar MatchesRights OfferingRights OfferingA popular means of raising capital by offering shareholders the opportunity to buy additional shares of the same stock at a price below the current market value. Special Drawing Rights (SDR)Special Drawing Rights (SDR)A form of international reserve assets, created by the IMF in 1967, whose value is based on a portfolio of widely used currencies. Trade-related intellectual property rightsTrade-related intellectual property rightsThis was the term used for bringing intellectual property protection into the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations under the pretense that only trade-related aspects of the issue would be included. In practice, that did not constrain the coverage of the resulting agreement. Protected rightsProtected rightsPension benefits payable at retirement age which are derived from funds built from minimum contributions paid into an appropriate personal pension plan by the Government. These benefits are a substitute for part of S2P. Rights issueRights issueAn offer made by a quoted company to its shareholders to enable them to buy new shares in the company at a discount to the market price.Existing shareholders are usually offered shares in proportion to their existing holding. For example in a one for five rights issue, a shareholder would be invited to buy one new share for every five shares already owned. The new shares are offered at a discount to the current market price and because of that the rights have a value in themselves and can be separately sold.For capital gains purposes, the shares acquired following a rights issue are deemed to have been acquired at the same time as the original shares.Shareholders who hold a company's shares in a PEP, ISA or SIPP account can only take up their rights if they have sufficient funds in those accounts to exercse the rights. Further SuggestionsSurface RightsVoting rights cum rights ex rights Rights offering Rights Agreement (aka "Poison Pill") rights offering Appraisal rights Ex rights Cum rights Property rights Ex rights date |
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