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Read This Share Owners' Handbook and Discover a Simple Guide to Dividends, Bonus Issues, Consolidations, Rights Issues & Takeovers

DUBLIN, Ireland-(Business Wire)-October 3, 2008 - Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7a2487/the_share_owners) has announced the addition of the "The Share Owners' Handbook: A Simple Guide to Dividends, Bonus Issues, Consolidations, Rights Issues & Takeovers" report to their offering.

Whereas it is common for corporate actions to be treated incidentally by those promoting investing and investments, the aim of this short guide is to look at the subject of corporate actions in the round, so that the reader can understand the processing of corporate actions as well as the effect that dividends, rights issues and all the other corporate events have on their investments.

For those who simply require a handy and straightforward introduction to specific corporate actions, the ‘Quick Fix’ guide to the content and the glossary of corporate actions terminology should be especially useful. Most but not all glossary terms appear in the text of the guide and each term’s first occurrence is in bold.

The book works through equity corporate actions followed by the corporate actions industry; its efficiency and progress is considered in full. Debt security corporate actions are given separate treatment in later chapters and finally Groves looks at how corporate actions are treated in relation to a variety of specialist investment subjects, such as stock indices, hedging and asset backed securities. All of this is described in layman’s terms to help the flummoxed investor as corporate actions are declared.

Although the processing of corporate actions is the achievement of a global industry there are important differences between different countries when it comes to shareholder entitlements. To cover all the differences between jurisdictions is beyond the scope of this guide. Instead, corporate actions for United Kingdom companies are used as a starting point but significant national differences are also described and explained, particularly for the United States and the European Union.

In the main, this guide’s point of view is that of the equity investor. However, it is hoped that investment industry practitioners will also find the guide helpful. The aim has been to provide sufficient detail to give the reader a working model of corporate actions that is practically helpful in navigating the investment world.

Key Topics Covered:

- Rights Issues (& Open Offers)

- Takeovers

- Spin-offs and Demergers

- Return of Capital

- Bonus Issues and Share Consolidations

- Dividends, Scrip Dividends

- Voting Your Shares

- Some Other Corporate Actions

- Different Kinds of Stockbroking Service and How This Can Affect How Corporate Actions Work for You

- Where to Go for Information about Corporate Actions

- What it All Adds Up To