- Industry: Financial services
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A mapping of the change in value or profits and losses to which an organization has exposure.
Industry:Financial services
To retire existing bond issues through the sale of a new bond issue, usually to reduce the interest rate being paid.
Industry:Financial services
An active asset management strategy that tactically overweighted and underweighted certain sectors, depending on expected performance. Sometimes called sector rotation.
Industry:Financial services
A portfolio constructed to match an index or benchmark.
Industry:Financial services
The reorganization of a company in order to attain greater efficiency and to adapt to new markets. Major corporate restructuring transactions include mergers, acquisitions, tender offers, leveraged buyouts, divestitures, spin-offs, equity carve-outs, liquidations and reorganizations.
Industry:Financial services
The commission a mutual fund charges an investor who is redeeming shares. For example, a 2% redemption charge (also called a back end load) on the sale of shares valued at $1000 will result in payment of $980 (or 98% of the value) to the investor. This charge may decline or be eliminated as shares are held for longer time periods.
Industry:Financial services
The basic concept that higher expected returns accompany greater risk, and vice versa.
Industry:Financial services
An employee of an investment firm (often having a Ph.D. in physics or mathematics) that works on highly mathmatic models of derivative pricing.
Industry:Financial services
