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A
- Aberratio ictus
- Abolition
- Absinthe
- Absolute return principle
- Absolute right
- Absolute rights
- Absolutio ab instantia
- Absorption principle
- Abuse of rights
- Acceptance of guilt
- Acceptance of the inheritance
- Acceptance theory
- Accessory law
- Accident
- Accountability
- Accounting
- Accounting currency
- Accumulation
- Accusation process
- Acoustic condition
- Acquired right
- Act
- Actio libera in causa
- Action
- Action for a declaratory judgment
- Action for annulment
- Action for annulment of arrest
- Action for damages
- Action for possession
- Action for rectification
- Action for reduction
- Action for rescission
- Action for segregation
- Action for withdrawal
- Actions for performance or conviction
- Activation legitimation
- Active administration
- Active Ownership
- Ad hoc disclosure requirements
- Adequate causal link
- Adequate causation
- Adhesion process
- Admassification
- Administration
- Administrative complaint
- Administrator
- Adoption
- Advantage
- Advisory board
- Affect
- Affection value
- Affidavit
- Affiliates of the jesuits
- Affiliation
- Agency contract
- Agricultural business
- Aid scheme
- Aliud
- All-in fee
- Allegations
- Alpha
- Alternative bond
- Alternative Investment Fund (AIF)
- Alternative Investment Fund Manager (AIFM)
- Alternative investments
- Amnesty
- Amortization
- Analogy
- Anarchist crime
- Anima Brotherhood
- Animal owners
- Annual financial statement
- Annual report
- Annuities
- Anries
- Anti-dilution measures
- Antichresis
- Anticipated fulfilment
- Appeal
- Appeal in cassation
- Appeals
- Appraisal
- Appropriation
- Arable food
- Arbitrariness
- Arbitration agreement
- Arrest
- Arson
- Art market
- Artwork
- Asset allocation fund
- Asset Backed Securities (ABS)
- Asset class
- Asset securitisation
- Assets
- Assets under Management
- Assignment
- Assumption of debt
- Attack
- Audit company
- Auditor
- Auditors
- Authentication clause
- Authorisation
- Authority
- Autonomy
- Avoiding the law
- Awareness of the unlawfulness
B
- Balance
- Balance sheet
- Banknotes
- Bankrupt
- Bankruptcy
- Banks
- Base load
- Behavioural finance
- Benchmark
- Beneficiary clause
- Beneficiary principle
- Benefits for citizens
- Bertillonage
- Best-in-Class
- Big Data
- Bigamy
- Bill of lading
- Bishop
- Bishopric establishment
- Bitcoin (BTC)
- Blockchain
- Bond
- Bonds in kind
- Book entry securities
- Breaking the causal link
- Brevi mane traditio
- Bribery
- Brokerage fees
- Building
- Building law
- Building permit
C
- Caducation
- Capacity to act
- Capital
- Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR)
- Cassation
- Cause
- Central Counterparty (CCP)
- Certificate of inheritance
- Certificates
- Change
- Chantage
- Check
- Church service
- CIC
- Cif-clause
- Civil engineering
- Civil servitudes
- Claim
- Clausula rebus sic stantibus
- Clearing
- Closed funds
- Closed-end principle
- Cloud Computing
- Coercion
- Cognition
- Collective investment scheme
- Command
- Command procedure
- Commercial status
- Commission-based
- Commitment
- Common law
- Communion incidens
- Company
- Comparative law
- Compensation agreement
- Compensationis
- Competing claims
- Complaint under debt collection law
- Compliance
- Concentration risk
- Concession
- Concursus duarum
- Condiciones in praeteritum
- Condiciones iuris
- Condiction
- Condition
- Condition crimes
- Conditional sentencing
- Confidential liability
- Confirmation
- Conflict of competence
- Consortium
- Constitution
- Constitutional jurisdiction
- Constitutive effect
- Contingency maxim
- Contract
- Contract in favour of third parties
- Contractual investment fund
- Contributions
- Controlling risk
- Conversion
- Conversion of the legal transaction
- Convertible arbitrage
- Cooaborative Finance
- Cooperative
- Copyright protection
- Core satellite
- Corporate governance
- Cost average effect
- Costs
- Counterparty default risk
- Counterparty risk
- Countries with distribution restrictions
- Coupon
- Courts of arbitration
- Cover funds
- Coverage
- Covering purchase
- Credit transactions
- Credit Value at Risk (Credit VaR)
- Crimes
- Criminal complaint
- Criminal procedural law
- Criticism
- Crowdfunding
- Crypto assets
- Cryptocurreny
- Culpa
- Culpa compensation
- Cultural standards
- Cumulative funds
- Curator
- Custodian bank (CISA)
- Custodian bank (UCITS and AIF)
- Custodian bank controlling
- Customerinformation document
- Cut-off time
D
- Damage
- Damnum emergens
- Danger
- Date
- Datio in solutum
- Deadline
- Debt collection action
- Debts to be discharged
- Decharge issue
- Decision
- Declaration of mortification
- Declaratory effect
- Declaratory significance
- Defamation
- Default and market risks
- Default of acceptance
- Defence
- Defendant
- Del credere
- Deliberation period
- Delicted spauliana
- Delictum commissivum per omissionem
- Délit manqué
- Democracy
- Denial of justice
- Depreciation
- Derelation
- Derivative acquisition of ownership
- Derivative financial instruments
- Derogating customary law
- Derogatory force
- Design lawsuit
- Design rights
- Desuetudo
- Determinism
- Deviation from constant practice
- Devis
- Devolutive effect
- Difference theory
- Digital Native
- Diplomatic corps
- Direct investments
- Directions
- Directness
- Disclaimer
- Disclosure obligation
- Discount rate
- Discounted cash flow method (DCF)
- Discounting
- Discovery
- Disease
- Display
- Disposition capability
- Disposition maxim
- Dispositive
- Dispositive law
- Dispute
- Dissent
- Distance buying
- Distance offence
- Distribution
- Diversification
- Dividend
- Dolus
- Domestic Trust
- Domicile
- Domiciliary agent
- Donation
- Donation pauliana
- Double insurance
- Dual pricing
- Dual representation
- Duplicate
- Duration
- Duty of disclosure
- Duty to give notice of defects
- Duty to publish
E
- Earning
- Economy
- Edition
- Embezzlement
- Emergency action
- Emergency ordinance
- Emerging markets
- Emigration
- Employees
- Employment
- Employment contract
- Encryption based on AES
- Encyclical
- Endorsement
- Enrichment
- Environmental (E)
- Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
- Equivalence theory
- Erfahrungssätze
- Error
- Establishment of the port
- Estate
- Estimation error
- European Banking Authority (EBA)
- European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
- European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs)
- European passport for asset management companies
- European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
- European Social Entrepreneurship Funds (EuSEFs)
- European Venture Capital Fund (EuVECA)
- Evidence
- Exchange Traded Funds (ETF)
- Exclusions
- Exercising voting rights
- Expenses
- Experts
- Expropriation
- External administration
- External rating agency
- Exterritoriality
F
- Fact
- Facts
- Factsheet
- Fake gap
- Falsus procurator
- Family Fideicommissum
- Fault
- Federal act
- Federal authorities
- Federal council
- Federal decree
- Fee
- Fee-based
- Feodum
- Fiction
- Fiduciary legal transaction
- Fiduciary property
- Files
- Financial loss insurance
- Financial planning
- Findings
- Fixed business
- Foenus nauticum
- Follow-up complaint
- Foreign exchange risk
- Forfeiture
- Form of contract
- Formal invalidity
- Formal law
- Formal requirements
- Forum
- Forward pricing
- Foundation
- Fraud
- Free consideration of evidence
- Free of charge process management
- Freedom rights
- Friedloslegung
- Fund
- Fund assets
- Fund costs
- Fund domicile
- Fund for alternative (non-traditional) investments
- Fund management
- Fund manager
- Fund of funds
- Fund promotion dilemma
- Fund rating
- Fund unit costs
- Fund valuation
- Fundamental error
- Funds trading on the stock exchange
- Fungible items
- Funny solid
G
H
I
- Ilegal
- Image risk
- Immorality
- Impact Investment
- Imputability
- In fraudem legis
- Incapacity to act
- Income
- Incorrect administrative act
- Incorrectness
- Index
- Index funds
- Index-oriented asset management
- Indicia
- Indirect perpetration
- Individual liberties
- Individualism
- Information on returns
- Information ratio (IR)
- Infringement
- Inside information
- Insiders
- Insolvency
- Insolvency protection
- Installment facility
- Instance (last cantonal)
- Instigation
- Institutional funds
- Instruction
- Insult
- Insurance contract
- Integration
- Intellectual property rights
- Intention
- Intention of enrichment
- Interdiction
- Interest
- Internal Investment Guidelines (IIG)
- International Security Identification Number (ISIN)
- Interpretation
- Interruption of the limitation period
- Invention
- Inventory
- Investment company with variable capital (SICAV)
- Investment Criteria
- Investment fund
- Investment fund manager
- Investment instruments
- Investment manager
- Investment objective
- Investment policy
- Investment region
- Investment regulations
- Investment risks
- Investment style
- Investment theme
- Investment trust
- Investor collective
- Investor of a securitisation
- Investor protection and transparency
- Investor restrictions
- Invitation to tender
- Issuer risk
- Issuers
- Issuing commission
- Issuing currency
- Issuing frequency
L
- Labour law
- Lack of evidence
- Land register
- Late trading
- Launch
- Law
- Law (subjective)
- Law of succession
- Legacy
- Legal assistance
- Legal capacity
- Legal claim
- Legal competition (genuine)
- Legal entity
- Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
- Legal force
- Legal form
- Legal institutions
- Legal interests
- Legal opening
- Legal possession
- Legal system
- Legal terminology
- Legal transaction
- Legality principle
- Legitimation to the matter
- Letter of credit
- Level playing field
- Liability
- Liability for material defects
- Liability insurance
- Life insurance
- Limit Order
- Limitation on transferability
- Limitation period
- Limited partnership
- Liquidation
- Liquidator
- Liquidity risk
- Loans
- Local government
- Local use
- Location
- Loophole in the law
- Loss certificate
- Lottery
- Lucrum cessans
- Lura novit curia
- Lus sanguinis
M
- Management fee
- Mandatory law
- Margin lending transaction
- Marginalia
- Market (Historic) Pricing
- Market maker
- Market timing
- Market value
- Master-feeder funds
- Master-Feeder structure
- Materials
- Matrimonial property law dispute
- Medium
- Meeting
- Membership or participation rights
- Mental reservation
- Merger
- Merit of the claim
- Microfinance
- Microfinance Investment Intermediaries (MII)
- MiFID
- MiFIR
- Mixed contract
- Mixed funds
- Mobility
- Model approach
- Monarchy
- Monastery
- Monetary compensation for tort moral
- Money
- Money market fund
- Montreal Carbon Pledge
- Moral insanity
- Most favoured nation clause
- Motif
- Movable items
N
O
- Obiter dictum
- Objection
- Objective right
- Obligation funds
- Obligation to contract
- Obligation to declare
- Offence of omission
- Office of the public prosecutor
- Official certification
- Official decrees
- Official duty
- Official offences
- Official proceedings
- Offshore funds
- One-man company
- Open architecture
- Open funds
- Open Source Software
- Open-end fund
- Operation
- Opportunity principle
- Order
- Order of the Knights (OESSH)
- Organs
- Original acquisition
- Originator of a securitisation
- Outsourcing
- Over-the-counter (OTC)
- Ownership
P
- P.o. box
- Pactum de non licitando
- Pactum de quota litis
- Palmarium
- Pardon
- Parentel
- Partiaric legal transaction
- Partnership
- Passive asset management
- Passive legitimation
- Passporting for credit institutions, insurance undertakings and investment firms
- Patrocinium successivum
- Payment Gateway
- Peer group
- Penalty
- Penalty order
- Peremptorization
- Performance
- Performance fee
- Periodic reporting
- Permanent offence
- Personal rights
- Philanthropy
- Placet
- Planned economy
- Plea
- Poison
- Police
- Policy
- Pooling
- Pope
- Popular action
- Portfolio
- Portfolio components
- Portfolio Turnover Rate (PTR)
- Positive investment criteria
- Postage
- Postulation capability
- Potestativ condition
- Power of judgement
- Power of representation
- Precaria
- Precautionary measures
- Prejudice
- Premium
- Presumptio hominis
- Presumption
- Presumption of jurisdiction
- Presumption of law
- Presumption of legality
- Prevarication
- Primary market
- Principal-agent theory (PA-theory)
- Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI)
- Private equity
- Private labelling
- Private placement life insurance
- Private plaintiff
- Private prosecution
- Process operation
- Process purpose
- Process requirements
- Processes and IT
- Procuration
- Profession
- Professional secrecy
- Promoter
- Property
- Property law
- Prorogation
- Prospectus
- Prospectus Validation
- Provisional measures
- Public charges
- Public documents
- Public institutions
- Public limited company
- Publicity
- Publicity principle
- Purchase
- Purpose
- Purpose of funds
- Putative offence
R
- Rat run
- Rating
- Ratio decidendi
- Real acts
- Real estate funds
- Real gaps
- Reason
- Reasons for legalisation
- Receipt
- Reciprocity
- Recourse
- Recovery action
- Redemption conditions
- Redemption frequency
- Reference currency
- Referendum
- Reflex damage
- Rehabilitation
- Reinsurance
- Relapse
- Relative right
- Religious orders
- Replacement
- Representation
- Reputation (good)
- Request
- Requisitorial garnishment
- Research maxim
- Reservation
- Residence
- Resolution on the constitution
- Resolutive condition
- Retaliation
- Retention prosecution
- Retention right
- Retorsion
- Revision
- Right in rem
- Right of inheritance
- Right of recall
- Right of representation
- Right to petition
- Risk
- Risk categories
- Risk distribution
- Robo Advisor
- Rosary
- Rosary Broterhood
- Rule of law
- Rules of instance
- Rural inheritance law
S
- Sale
- Sales compensation and reimbursement
- Sales prospectus
- Satisfaction
- Savings banks
- Screen Scraping
- Secondary market
- Securities
- Security
- Segregated pool of assets
- Seizure
- Seizure order
- Self help sale
- Self-contracting
- Self-defence
- Self-defense excess
- Servitude
- Settlement
- Share
- Share shell
- Shares with restricted transferability
- Sharpe ratio (SR)
- Short position
- Short Selling
- SICAV
- Side pockets
- Sidekick
- Simple society
- Simulated legal transaction
- Singularsuccession
- Social (S)
- Social issues
- Social Trading
- Socially Responsible Investment (SRI)
- Source
- Sovereignty of coinage
- Special court
- Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
- Speciality
- Specific prevention
- Sponsor institution of a securitisation
- Squad
- Stamp
- Standards-based screening
- State
- State of emergency
- State season
- State witness
- Status complaints
- Statute
- Statutory regulations
- Stock exchange
- Straw man
- Structured products
- Subject of the dispute
- Subjective right
- Subrogation
- Subsidiarity
- Subsidies
- Substantiation
- Substantive law
- Substrate of bankruptcy
- Subsumption
- Suggestion contracts
- Surrogation
- Suspension
- Suspensive condition
- Sustainability Advisory Board
- Sustainable investments
- Sustainable theme funds
- Swinging single pricing
- Swiss confederation
- Synthetic securitisation
T
- Tax authority
- Taxes
- Technical liquidity
- Territorial jurisdiction
- Territoriality principle
- Tetralogy of fund characteristics
- Theft
- Thingality
- Third-party mandate
- Tied agents
- Title purchasing-selling expenses
- Token
- Tokenization
- Total Expense Ratio (TER)
- Tracking error
- Trade repository
- Trading currency
- Traditional securitisation
- Transfer agent
- Transparent fund accounting
- Trial
- Trip
- Triple bottom line (TBL)
- Trust
U
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