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		YTD
NY DJIA	12,705.40	3.99%
NY NASDAQ	2,859.68	9.77%
London FTSE	5,796.07	4.02%
Tokyo Nikkei	8,869.01	4.89%
Shanghai SSE	2,306.66	4.88%
Frankfurt DAX	6,655.63	12.84%
Paris CAC 40	3,376.66	6.86%
Singapore SGX	2,909.82	9.96%
Malaysia KLSE	1,532.07	0.09%
Thailand SET	1,091.67	6.47%

	USD	EUR
GBP	0.6332	0.8308
JPY	76.19	99.98
EUR	0.7621	-
USD	-	1.3123
CNY	6.3055	8.2765
CAD	1.0001	1.3123
AUD	0.9358	1.2279
HKD	7.7564	10.1785

		YTD
Gold	$1,751.00	11.64%
Brent Crude Oil	$112.34	4.60%

Updated On 03-02-2012

Glossary of Terms

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Absolute Owner

This is the sole owner of a piece of property, such as a building, vehicle or piece of equipment.

Abstract of title

This is a document which summarises all the title deeds to a property such as a house. It is drawn up for the seller when a property is being sold.

Accrual Rate

This is the rate by which a pension from an earnings-related occupational pension scheme builds up from one year to another. The rate is shown as a fraction or a percentage of the member's final yearly salary.

Accrue

If something is accruing, it is building up day by day. If an organisation owes money for goods and services but has not received a bill up to the date it prepares its accounts, it will estimate what it owes. It will then include the debt in its accounts. This estimated liability is called an accrual.

Accrued income security

This is a security (investment) which pays interest at regular intervals. When it is sold, interest may have built up and this interest will be paid to the new owner. Interest built up like this is called accrued interest.

Accumulation date

This is the date when income will be credited to a unit trust which reinvests its income (an accumulation unit), instead of paying the income out to the investors.

Accumulation unit

The type of unit trust which reinvests the income it earns, instead of paying it out immediately to the investors, is called an accumulation unit.

Actuary

An actuary is an expert on pension scheme assets and liabilities, life expectancy and probabilities for insurance purposes (the likelihood of things happening). An actuary works out whether enough money is being paid into a pension scheme to pay the pensions when they are due.

Ad valorem

If a duty is ad valorem the duty varies with the price of the asset which is being transferred.

Additional voluntary contribution

People in occupational pension schemes can pay in extra money to increase their pension benefits. The extra money they pay in is an additional voluntary contribution.

Jan 2012

Watch out for the BRICs! The MSCI Emerging Markets Index, up for seven of the past nine years, has lost 22% in 2011. MSCI indices tracking Latin America, Asia ex-Japan and Eastern Europe are down 20%-24%. The MSCI BRIC index (covering emerging market heavyweights Brazil, Russia, India and China) has fallen by 26%.

Dec 2011

The trend is your friend, these are apparently the first words uttered in trading school. They also serve as the founding principle of the world's largest hedge fund's flagship strategy.

Dec 2011

Indonesia: With a huge population of 240m people, a stable government, control of inflation and an export led economy, Indonesia is set to continue rewarding investors with spectacular returns,..

Nov 2011

While the shift away from the dollar's global dominance will be gradual, Chinese authorities are wasting no time in securing the renminbi's position as the world's next reserve currency.

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Questor Capital Ltd. has offices in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand and is regulated in Malaysia by Labuan FSA (License Number BS200649).
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