Glossary
- A-Share
- AAA rating
- abs.
- Accrual bond
- Accumulate
- Acquisition currency
- Actively managed fund
- Ad-hoc disclosure
- Additional margin
- Admission of securities to the Regulated Market
- Admission to the exchange
- Admissions Office
- Advance-decline (AD)
- AIBD return (ISMA return)
- AIBD return (ISMA-return)
- All-time high
- All-time low
- Allocation
- Allotment
- Alpha
- American depositary receipt (ADR)
- American depositary share (ADS)
- American-style option
- Annual General Meeting
- AQR (VWAP) executions
- Arbitrage
- Asian option
- Ask
- Ask price
- Asset class
- Asset-backed security
- Asterisk * (price addendum)
- At the money
- Attentism
- Auction principle
- Automatic exercise (warrants)
A-Share
Shares of Chinese corporations listed in Shanghai or Shenzhen in Renminbi.
A-shares are shares of Chinese corporations+G6 traded on either the Shanghai Stock Exchange or the Shenzhen stock exchange in the Chinese currency Renminbi. Initially, A-shares were tradable only for Chinese investors. Since 2002, selected foreign institutional investors are allowed to trade A-shares. A company can issue both A- and B- shares. Since these types of shares are not interchangeable, no arbitrage transactions are possible, and the value of both types of shares may differ. Since only A-shares are available to Chinese investors without any restrictions, they are usually traded at a higher price than B-shares of the same company.
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