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• Registrar The organization that maintains a registry of the shareowners and number of shares held for a mutual fund, bond or stock, and makes sure that more shares are not issued than are authorized. 
• Registrar The Registrar finalizes the list of eligible allottees after deleting the invalid applications and ensures that the corporate action for crediting of shares to the demat accounts of the applicants is done and the dispatch of refund orders to those applicable are sent. The Lead manager coordinates with the Registrar to ensure follow up so that that the flow of applications from collecting bank branches, processing of the applications and other matters till the basis of allotment is finalized, dispatch security certificates and refund orders completed and securities listed.  
• Regular Lot Order It is the minimum quantity of an order that can be entered into the different markets namely Normal , Spot and Auction.
• Reinvestment Plan It is a plan where the earnings of a mutual fund scheme are not returned to the investors but get reinvested back in the fund. Upon increase in NAV the investor gets the capital appreciation.  
• Reinvestment Risk This type of the risk is inherent in fixed income securities and arises due to interest rate change as a result of which the interest received on these instruments can't be reinvested in higher interest bearing instruments.  
• Retail Individual Investor Retail individual investor’ means an investor who applies or bids for securities of or for a value of not more than Rs.1, 00,000.  
• Rho The rate of change in option premium for a given change in interest rates.
• Rights Issues The issues of new shares to existing shareholders in a fixed ratio a price that is generally below the market price of the existing shares. The rights are offers to the existing shareholders on a pre-emptive basis.
• Risk Factors The disclosure of the issuer’s management to give its view on the Internal and external risks faced by the company. Here, the company also makes a note on the forward-looking statements. This information is disclosed in the initial pages of the document and it is also clearly disclosed in the abridged prospectus. It is generally advised that the investors should go through all the risk factors of the company before making an investment decision.
• Rollover The transfer of a futures or options position from one delivery/expiry month to another - involving the purchase (sale) of the nearby month and the simultaneous and corresponding sale (purchase) of a further delivery or expiry month.