Corporate events: what a holder has to track
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Price is not the only thing that happens to a security. There is a separate stream of events, some of which require action from the owner within a limited window.
Events needing no action
Dividend and coupon payments, splits, a change of name. They happen by themselves; nothing is required of the owner.
Events with an action and a deadline
A bond put date — presenting the bond for redemption is possible only within the allotted window. Miss it and you stay in the bond on new terms that can be markedly worse: The put date: miss it and you are left holding a different bond.
A mandatory offer on delisting — the window is limited.
Pre-emptive rights in a share issue — exercised within a set period.
Events that change the arithmetic
A split changes the share count and the price without changing the value of a position. Price history after it has to be read adjusted, or the chart shows a fall that never happened: Why the price of one share says nothing about the company.
A new share issue raises the share count and dilutes existing shareholders — A new share issue: why it hits existing owners.
Where to look
In the issuer's disclosure and in the product's events calendar. Broker notifications are useful but should not be relied on alone: they do not cover every event and do not always arrive in advance.
Related: The shareholder register: who records owners and when.
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