Preferred equity investing is on the rise amid a search for yield and a fall in the number of high-quality assets coming to market. Here we explore the growing appeal of preferred equity instruments, ...

The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released its preliminary views on financial instruments with the characteristics of equity in an effort to simplify a patchwork of 60-plus pieces of ...

Under normal circumstances, the fund invests at least 80% of its total assets in equity instruments and related derivative instruments issued by, or tied economically to, companies located in ...

The European Commission (EC) has published a draft delegated regulation amending Delegated Regulation 2017/567 as regards the obligation to provide market data on a reasonable commercial basis, the ...

Much ink has been spilled about the continued ascent of the “liability management exercise” (LME). Not to fret, this is not another LME article; rather, this article focuses on potential consequences ...

The investment seeks capital appreciation. Under normal market conditions, the fund pursues its investment objective by investing at least 80% of its net assets (including borrowings for investment ...

As part of their capital structure, companies may use both debt and equity financing to fund the purchase of a business or assets or for ongoing operations. Properly accounting for these types of ...

TP ICAP, a leading provider of market infrastructure, has marked a major milestone in its Digital Assets business with the first trades completed on crypto asset equity instruments with Goldman Sachs.

Equity-linked securities have proliferated to a point where questions around accounting for them are more the norm than the exception. To address the latest emerging issues, PwC has published a ...

Every financial market instrument represents a particular form of ownership, claim, or financial right. The ownership varies ...