- Industry: Financial services
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A measure of the extra return, or risk premium, that investors demand to bear risk. The reward-to-risk ratio of the market portfolio.
Industry:Financial services
The amount of money that a willing buyer pays to acquire something from a willing seller, when a buyer and seller are independent and when such an exchange is motivated by only commercial consideration.
Industry:Financial services
Risk that cannot be diversified away. Related: Systematic risk
Industry:Financial services
A line that indicates the minimum return required by investors at each level of investment risk. The schedule begins at the risk-free interest rate and rises as risk increases.
Industry:Financial services
The classifications of bonds by issuer characteristics, such as state government, corporate, or utility.
Industry:Financial services
A biased expectations theory that asserts that the shape of the yield curve is determined by the supply of and demand for securities within each maturity sector.
Industry:Financial services
A second offering following a tender offer, allowing institutional investors to obtain a controlling interest at a price higher than the original offer.
Industry:Financial services
A money manager who assumes he or she can forecast when the stock market will go up and down.
Industry:Financial services
Asset allocation in which investment in the equity market is increased if one forecasts that the equity market will outperform T-bills and is decreased when the market is anticipated to underperform.
Industry:Financial services
