- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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Direct/Sale of a firm's newly issued shares by the firm to investors.
Industry:Financial services
Termination of an overfunded defined benefit pension plan and replacement of it with a life insurance company-sponsored fixed annuity plan.
Industry:Financial services
General movement in price data that lasts 4 to 4 1/2 years.
Industry:Financial services
February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15, or next working day offerings of several "coupon" security issues. Quarterly issues currently consist of a 3-year note, a 10-year note, and a 30-year bond. The Treasury sometimes offers additional amounts of outstanding long-term notes or bonds, rather than selling new security issues. See: Reopening.
Industry:Financial services
The transactor in an interest rate swap who receives payments based on the fixed rate and makes payments based on the floating rate.
Industry:Financial services
Traditionally, the simultaneous purchase of stock in a company being acquired and the sale of stock of the acquirer. Modern risk arbitrage focuses on capturing the spreads between the market value of an announced takeover target and the eventual price at which the acquirer will buy the target's shares.
Industry:Financial services
Stands for prescribed right to income and maximum equity, a certificate that entitles the owner to the dividend/income from an underlying security, but not to the capital appreciation of that security.
Industry:Financial services
A corporation that is operated privately, but is supported by the government in its operations and that often traded publicly.
Industry:Financial services
