Depositary receipts may or may not be sponsored by the issuers of the underlying securities, and information regarding
issuers of securities underlying unsponsored depositary receipts may be more limited than for sponsored depositary receipts.
There may be less publicly available information regarding
the issuer of the securities underlying a depositary receipt than if those securities were traded directly in U.S. securities markets.
Not exact matches
Synthetic CDOs transfer the credit risk on a portfolio
of (typically) business loans from the
issuer of the
securities to the investor, but do not involve a sale
of the
underlying claims on the businesses.
A warrant is a time - limited right to subscribe for shares, debentures, loan stock or government
securities and is exercisable against the original
issuer of the
underlying securities.
In addition, the
underlying issuers of certain depository receipts, particularly unsponsored or unregistered depository receipts, are under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications to the holders
of such receipts, or to pass through to them any voting rights with respect to the deposited
securities.
Holders
of depositary receipts may have limited or no rights to take action with respect to the
underlying securities or to compel the
issuer of the receipts to take action
The third party, the CDS seller, is most often an institutional investing organization involved in credit speculation and will guarantee the
underlying debt between the
issuer of the
security and the buyer.
The
Underlying Index, created by Dhandho, utilizes a proprietary, rules - based methodology to select approximately 100 U.S. equity
securities, master limited partnerships («MLPs») and American depositary receipts listed on the NYSE, NYSE Arca and the NASDAQ Stock Market from three categories
of issuers: Share Buybacks, Select Value Manager Holdings, and Spin - Offs.
The purchaser
of the
security futures contract is not entitled to exercise any voting rights over the
underlying security and is not entitled to any dividends that may be paid by the
issuer.
Our results indicate that like many types
of structured products, DDs tend to be priced at a significant premium to present value across
issuers and
underlying securities and that the present value
of the decomposition is smaller than the face value net
of commissions.
Having valued nearly all DD structured products registered with the SEC through 2012, our results indicate that like many types
of structured products, DDs tend to be priced at a significant premium to present value across
issuers and
underlying securities.
A form
of investment research that focuses on information and events in the marketplace itself, generally without reference to the fundamental
underlying the
issuers of the
securities traded in the market.
Sponsored and unsponsored American Depositary Receipts («ADRs»), are receipts issued by an American bank or trust company evidencing ownership
of underlying securities issued by a foreign
issuer.
When the
underlying value
of the common stocks declines, the price
of the
issuer's convertible
securities will tend not to fall as much because the convertible
security's income potential will act as a price support.
The depository
of an unsponsored facility frequently is under no obligation to distribute shareholder communications received from the
underlying issuer or to pass through voting rights to depositary receipt holders with respect to the
underlying securities.
The special servicer ultimately enforced the
security over the borrowers and proceeded to sell the
underlying property assets over a period
of time crystallising a significant capital losses for the
issuer and noteholders.