Equity

Roles that need it

• Equity Research Associate
• Equity Capital Markets Analyst
• Portfolio Manager Assistant
• Trading Analyst
• Corporate Actions Analyst

Skills it belongs to

• Financial markets knowledge

Related concepts

• Corporate actionA corporate action, or corporate event, is an action by an issuer that affects its securities and their holders, such as a dividend, a coupon payment, a stock split, a rights issue, a merger or a redemption. Events are mandatory, mandatory with choice, or voluntary, and must be processed along the whole custody chain.
• Ex-dateThe ex-date is the first day on which a security trades without the right to a pending corporate action, such as a dividend. A buyer on or after the ex-date does not receive the entitlement; with a T+1 cycle the ex-date and the record date fall on the same business day.
• Proxy votingProxy voting is voting at a company's general meeting through an appointed representative or an intermediary instead of in person. In the EU the Shareholder Rights Directive II requires intermediaries in the custody chain to transmit meeting notices and votes without delay and to confirm votes on request.
• BondA bond is a debt security in which the issuer borrows from investors and promises to pay interest (coupons) and repay the principal at maturity. Key features are issuer, currency, coupon type (fixed, floating or zero), maturity, seniority and any embedded options; bonds are issued by governments, banks and companies.

Sources

• Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (Prospectus Regulation), EUR-Lex (external site) accessed 31 Oct 2026
• Directive (EU) 2017/828 (Shareholder Rights Directive II), EUR-Lex (external site) accessed 31 Oct 2026

Updated 31 Oct 2026.