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A

  • acceptable summary form
  • accounting principles
  • acquiror
  • acquiror’s securities
  • acquisition
  • acquisition announcement provisions
  • acquisition date
  • acquisition of related business
  • acquisition statements
  • acting jointly or in concert
  • advertisement
  • affiliate
  • alternative mutual fund
  • applicable definitions
  • applicable provisions
  • asset allocation service
  • associate
  • automatic securities purchase plan

B

  • benchmark
  • book-based system
  • borrowing agent
  • business
  • business acquisition report
  • business unit

C

  • cash cover
  • cash equivalent
  • cash payment option
  • CEO
  • CFO
  • class
  • cleared specified derivative
  • clearing corporation
  • clearing corporation option
  • clone fund
  • compensation arrangement
  • conflict of interest matter
  • contractual plan
  • control
  • control block distribution definition
  • conventional convertible security
  • conventional floating rate debt instrument
  • conventional warrant or right
  • convertible security
  • COO
  • credit derivative
  • credit support issuer
  • credit supporter
  • currency cross hedge
  • current value
  • custodian

D

  • dealer managed investment fund
  • dealer manager
  • debt-like security
  • delta
  • derivative
  • designated foreign issuer
  • designated foreign jurisdiction
  • designated rating
  • designated rating organization
  • dividend or interest reinvestment plan
  • DRO affiliate

E

  • early warning requirements
  • economic exposure
  • economic interest
  • economic interest in a security
  • education savings plan
  • effective control
  • eligible institutional investor
  • entity
  • entity related to the manager
  • equity investee
  • equity security
  • equivalent debt
  • EVCC
  • exchange contract
  • exchangeable security

F

  • financial institution
  • financial statements
  • fixed portfolio investment fund
  • floating rate evidence of indebtedness
  • foreign disclosure requirements
  • foreign issuer
  • foreign registrant
  • foreign regulatory authority
  • formal bid
  • forward contract
  • fundamental investment objectives
  • futures exchange

G

  • government security
  • guaranteed mortgage

H

  • Handbook
  • hedging

I

  • IIROC
  • illiquid asset
  • income trust
  • independent
  • independent review committee
  • independent valuation
  • independent valuator
  • index mutual fund
  • index participation unit
  • insider
  • insider report
  • insider reporting requirement
  • inter-fund self-dealing investment prohibitions
  • interim management report of fund performance
  • interim period
  • investment fund
  • investment fund conflict of interest investment restrictions
  • investment fund conflict of interest reporting requirements
  • investment fund manager
  • investment issuer
  • investment manager
  • investor fees
  • issuer event
  • issuer’s GAAP

J

  • joint actor
  • junior issuer

L

  • labour sponsored or venture capital fund
  • long form prospectus
  • long position
  • lump-sum provision

M

  • major subsidiary
  • management company
  • management expense ratio
  • management fees
  • management report of fund performance
  • manager
  • manager-prescribed number of units
  • marketplace
  • material change
  • material contract
  • member of the organization
  • MFDA
  • money market fund
  • moratorium provisions
  • mortgage
  • mutual fund
  • mutual fund in Ontario
  • mutual fund in the jurisdiction
  • mutual fund rating entity

N

  • net asset value
  • news release
  • non-redeemable investment fund
  • non-resident sub-adviser
  • normal course issuer bid

O

  • officer
  • operating entity
  • operating income
  • option
  • option on futures
  • order receipt office
  • overall rating or ranking
  • ownership

P

  • participating dealer
  • participating fund
  • performance data
  • permitted index
  • permitted precious metal
  • permitted precious metal certificate
  • permitted supranational agency
  • physical commodity
  • pledgee
  • portfolio adviser
  • portfolio advisor
  • portfolio asset
  • portfolio securities
  • precious metals fund
  • predecessor statements
  • pricing date
  • primary business statements
  • principal distributor
  • private enterprise
  • private mutual fund
  • public quotation
  • publicly accountable enterprise
  • purchase

Q

  • qualified security
  • quarterly portfolio disclosure

R

  • regulated clearing agency
  • related financial instrument
  • related investment funds
  • related person or company
  • report to securityholders
  • reporting insider
  • reporting issuer
  • restricted security
  • retrospective
  • retrospectively
  • reverse takeover
  • reverse takeover acquirer

S

  • sales communication
  • scholarship award
  • scholarship plan
  • SEC foreign issuer
  • SEC issuer
  • securities lending arrangement
  • securityholding percentage
  • short form prospectus
  • short position
  • significant change in a related financial instrument position
  • significant shareholder
  • special warrant
  • specified asset-backed security
  • specified dealer
  • specified derivative
  • specified profit or loss
  • specified securities lending arrangement
  • standardized future
  • standing instruction
  • statement of changes in financial position
  • stock dividend plan
  • sub-custodian
  • successor credit rating organization
  • swap
  • synthetic cash

T

  • take-over provisions
  • transition year

U

  • U.S. AICPA GAAS
  • U.S. GAAP
  • U.S. PCAOB GAAS
  • underlying interest
  • underlying market exposure
  • underlying security
  • underwriting period

V

  • VCC
  • venture investment
  • venture issuer
  • voting security

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Sources of Definitions

  • All Definitions
  • NI 81-102 Investment Funds
  • NI 81-106 Investment Fund Continuous Disclosure
  • NI 81-107 Independent Review Committee for Investment Funds
  • NI 55-104 Insider Reporting Requirements and Exemptions
  • NI 62-103 The Early Warning System and Related Takeover Bid and Insider Reporting Issues
  • National Instrument 62-104 Takeover Bids and Issuer Bids
  • OSA – Interpretation
  • OSA – Part XXI Insider Trading and Self-Dealing
  • National Instrument 52-107 Acceptable Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards
  • National Instrument 41-101 General Prospectus Requirements
  • National Instrument 51-102 Continuous Disclosure Obligations
  • National Instrument 54-101 Communication with Beneficial Owners of Securities of a Reporting Issuer

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