Law Faculty Charles University in Prague DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCIAL LAW Regulation of the Investor Compensation Scheme in the Legal System of the Czech Republic Abstract of the dissertation Dissertation Supervisor: doc. JUDr. Ivana Štenglová Author: JUDr. Libor Němec April 2012 This dissertation deals with the Czech legal regulation of the investor compensation schemes. The investor compensation schemes are special compensation mechanisms financed by investment firms (securities broker dealers) whose main purpose is a protection of retail investors, customers of securities brokers dealers, against a default of securities broker dealers (investment firms) resulting in their inability to meet their obligations against their clients and to return to the clients their assets which were entrusted to these firms in connection with investment business. In the case of such failure the compensation schemes will compensate the loss to the clients (in a specified amount and under given conditions). The investor compensation schemes therefore substantially strengthen the confidence of investors in the capital market which is absolutely necessary not only for their smooth operation but also for the smooth operation of the whole economy. Regarding the importance of investor compensation schemes for preservation of the...

The thesis "The regulation of capital market regulation, with a focus securities market "deals with the regulation and supervision of the capital market and securities market in particular. The first part is devoted to explaining the concepts of regulation and supervision, classification system of regulation and supervision, securities regulation and the reasons for the stock market. primary goal of this work is to compare the regulatory system securities market in the Czech Republic and the EU to propose any recommendations for the country. further analyzes the situation in the EU and more attention is focused on the regulation system in the UK and Germany.

The main question this master thesis wants to answer is how much from their disposable income the Czech households save and how do they use their savings on the capital market. The thesis analyse situation and trend of the Czech households saving rate, changings of the marginal saving rate and checks in which financial instruments the Czech households alocate their savings. The thesis also focus on comparison of the Czech households data with the foreign households especially with the German, the Belgium and the Britain households as well as with Visegrád group households. Middle part of the thesis contains a forecast of future progress, which is compared with the similar forecast from year 2006, as well as the relationship of the government and the household's savings rate and possibilities and impacts of its regulation.The thesis is finished with the conclusion which summarize the most important results.

My thesis is concentrated on basic types of securities, their measurement and reporting, according to Czech legislation, International Financial Reporting Standards and US GAAP. I deal with origin occasions of individual accounting systems and their structure at the beginning of my thesis. Then I describe different classification of securities. The main part is about equity and debt securities. I use shares and bonds to show right way of measurement, recognition and reporting of securities, according to Czech legislation, IFRS and US GAAP. In conclusion I compare measurement and reporting methods of individual accounting systems and their influence on reports.

My thesis is concentrated on basic types of securities, derivates and hedge accounting according to Czech legislation and International Financial Reporting. The main part is about equity, debt securities and forms of derivates and their accounting and presentation at the statements.

The aim of this text is to describe questions of securities in the Czech republic. Characteristics of individual kinds of the securities and their dividing are mentioned here. My attention is mainly addressed to stocks, obligations, bills of exchange and cheques. Farther I am engaged in accounting of the securities and their evaluation to balancing day. There are specific accounting examples of particular securities in the end. Also I talk about financial crisis and its impact on the securities.

In the first chapter of my diploma thesis, I try to show some general patterns concerning the securities and I also deal with the classification of securities and with the question of emitting the securities. In the second chapter, I pay my attention to the theme of shares as basic participant securities and I also try to clarify some other terms such as joint-stock companies, negotiable papers or rights of minority shareholders. In the following part of my thesis, I deal with the theme of interim certificates and I also try to explain the process of their exchanging for shares. In the next chapter, I pay my attention to the theme of additional securities (stock warrants, time warrants). In the semi-final chapter of my thesis, I deal with the theme of bonds (priority bonds, exchangeable bonds, mortgage debenture bonds). In the last part of my thesis, I try to compare the current legal form (concerning the securities) to that which shall come into force by 1. 1. 2014.

This work deals with the tools of financial market. It is demonstrated to a reader, what is the financial market composed from, how it actually works and what are the characteristics of securities, why the securities are used, what are the advantages and disadvantages. We are going to focus on field of mutual funds, as a part of collective investment. Thanks to investment questionary is made a research to find out which strategy is prefered by citizens. We are going to suggest the optimal financial portfolio to this strategy by the program GRANT. We are going to use the fuzzy logic characteristic and we are going to show to the investor how can he choose the suitable invesment tools to his portfolio according to his requierements.

Diploma thesis focuses on the issue of an appropriate selection of securities and the subsequent establishment of a portfolio of these securities. Follow detailed discussion about analysis of portfolio and investor’s preferences. Below is a description of the CAPM model, its assumptions and usage of this model to build a portfolio. Then there is the actual calculation of characteristics of securities traded on the Prague Stock Exchange and on the basis of these calculations is made the proposal of several portfolios and their evaluation.

This master’s thesis discusses the accounting of securities and financial derivatives in accordance with the Czech accounting legislation and the International Financial Reporting Standards. The goal is to suggest the methodology based on the performed analysis of differencies between the both accounting systems. The parts of the master’s thesis are the processing of the theoretical data, the analysis of differencies and their application to the case studies with the assessment of their influence on the basic indicators of the financial analysis.