Glossary
- Safety cushion
- Sale in the open market
- Scale for bonds
- Scale for shares
- Schatz future
- SDAX
- Second Quotation Board
- Secondary market
- Secondary purchase
- Sector fund
- Sector index
- Securities
- Securities account
- Securities exchange
- Securities Trading Act
- Seed phase
- Semiannual report (funds)
- Sensitivity (warrants)
- Settlement
- Share
- Share buy-back
- Share price
- Share register
- Shareholder
- Shareholder rights
- Shareholder value
- Shareholders' record
- Shareholder’s right to information
- Sharpe-Ratio
- Shell corporation
- Short position
- Short sale
- SMAX
- SME Growth Market
- SPAC
- Special fund
- Specialised fund
- Specialized fund
- Spot market
- Spread
- Spread certificate
- Squeeze-out
- Standard deviation
- Startup company
- Startup phase
- Steady
- Stock corporation
- Stock cycle
- Stock exchange
- Stock Exchange Act (Börsengesetz)
- Stock exchange monopoly
- Stock index
- Stock market
- Stock market analysis
- Stock market crash
- Stock option
- Stock option plan
- Stock price
- Stock split
- Stop-buy order
- Stop-limit order
- Stop-loss limit
- Stop-loss order
- Stop-market order
- Stop-sell order
- STOXX Europe 50
- STOXX®
- Strike price
- Subscription
- Subscription period
- Subscription rights
- Support buying
- Support Line
- SWAP
- Switch
- Syndicate
- Syndicate bank
- Synthetic bonds
Shareholder’s right to information
The right of a shareholder to be informed of matters affecting the company, and in particular of legal and business issues
The principles governing the provision of information are set out in section 131 of the Aktiengesetz (the German Stock Corporation Act). Generally, a company’s Investor Relations department is responsible for regular communication with all shareholders who are interested in a stock corporation’s course of business and strategy.
Shareholders do not have a right to information if disclosing it would render the executive board criminally liable or would damage the company or an affiliate.
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