- Industry: Financial services
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Chart pattern showing an increasing trend in the daily low prices of a security or commodity.
Industry:Financial services
One who receives the principal of a trust when it is dissolved.
Industry:Financial services
A method of calculating required minimum distributions from a retirement plan using life expectancy tables. Unisex data tables allow a plan holder to determine the applicable life expectancy each year a distribution is required.
Industry:Financial services
Often defined as the standard deviation of the return on total investment. Degree of uncertainty of return on an asset. In context of asset pricing theory. See: Systematic risk.
Industry:Financial services
Often used in risk arbitrage. Plan by a target company to restructure its capitalization (debt and equity) in a way to ward off a hostile or potential suitor.
Industry:Financial services
The rate established by adding a expected risk premium to the risk-free rate in order to determine the present value of a risky investment.
Industry:Financial services
The amount of principal dollars remaining to be paid under a mortgage as of a given time.
Industry:Financial services
A provision in a contract that allows one party to recover (recapture) some degree of possession of an asset, such as a share of the profits derived from some property.
Industry:Financial services
A probability used to determine a "sure" expected value (sometimes called a certainty equivalent) that would be equivalent to the actual risky expected value.
Industry:Financial services
