- Industry: Financial services
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Computer software that helps investors make investment decisions by identifying situations that meet programmed parameters.
Industry:Financial services
A partnership that includes one or more partners who have limited liability.
Industry:Financial services
Used in insurance policy agreements as to compensation for damage or loss. Hold harmless
Industry:Financial services
A strategy, or plan of attack, an investor uses when deciding how to allocate capital among several options including stocks, bonds, cash equivalents, commodities, and real estate. The strategy should take into account the investor's tolerance for risk as well as future needs for capital.
Industry:Financial services
Life insurance providing full life protection but requiring premiums for only part of the customer's lifetime.
Industry:Financial services
Used in insurance policy agreements as to compensation for damage or loss. In the context of corporate governance, Director Indemnification uses the bylaws and/or charter to indemnify officers and directors from certain legal expenses and judgements resulting from lawsuits pertaining to their conduct.
Industry:Financial services
A committee within a brokerage firm that conducts research and makes recommendations on the firm's stated investment strategy.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. See: Limit order.
Industry:Financial services
Agreement between lender and borrower that details specific terms of the bond issuance. Specifies legal obligations of bond issuer and rights of bondholders. An indenture spells out the specific terms of a bond, as well as the rights and responsibilities of both the issuer of the security and the holder.
Industry:Financial services
Proportion of new capital investment that could be used to reduce a company's tax bill (abolished in 1986).
Industry:Financial services
