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Financial Terms by:
- Absolute advantage
- Absolute Return
- Accelerated depreciation
- Acceleration clause
- Accounting equation
- Accrual basis
- Accrual strategy
- Accumulated dividend
- Acquisition
- Active management
- Actively managed fund
- Actual market
- Additional bonds test
- Adequacy of coverage
- Advance refunding
- Adverse selection
- Affinity fraud
- Ageing schedule
- Amalgamation
- Amortisation
- Annual report
- Annualised rate of return
- Annuity
- Arbitrage
- Arbitrage funds
- Asset
- Asset allocation
- Asset class
- Asset stripper
- Assets under management
- Auction markets
- Authorised shares
- Authority bond
- Autoregressive
- Average accounting return
- Average maturity
- Averaging Down
- Backup Withholding
- Backwardation
- Balance of trade (BOT)
- Balance Sheet
- Balanced funds
- Bankruptcy
- Base currency
- Basis point
- Bear market
- Being Bearish
- Being Bullish
- Benchmark
- Beneficial owner
- Bid price
- Bitcoin Mining
- Blockchain
- Blue Chip Stocks
- Book-to-Bill-Ratio
- Breakpoint
- Bull Market
- Business-to-Consumer
- Buy limit
- Buyout
- Capital appreciation
- Capital expenditure (Capex)
- Capital Gains or Losses
- Capital Lease
- Capital Lease Obligations
- Capital preservation fund
- Capitalisation
- Carry Trade
- Cash Flow
- Cash Settlement
- Certificate of deposit
- Clean price
- Close-ended schemes
- Coefficient of variation (CV)
- Collateral
- Commodity
- Common Stock
- Compounding
- Consensus Estimate
- Contingent deferred sales charge
- Contrarian Investor
- Contribution margin
- Convertible Bonds
- Convexity
- Corporate bonds
- Coupon payments
- Creative destruction (CD)
- Credit risk
- Cryptocurrency
- Cumulative total return
- Cut-off-time
- Cyclical Stock
- Day trader
- Debenture
- Defeasance
- Demat account
- Depreciation
- Derivatives
- Diluted Earnings Per Share
- Disbursement
- Distribution schedule
- Dividend Yield
- Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)
- Double Bottom/ Double Top
- Downtrend
- Due Diligence
- Earnest money
- Earnings Per Share (EPS)
- EBITA
- Emerging Markets
- Endowment
- Endowment fund
- Equity fund
- Equity options
- Equity Volume
- Escrow
- ESG investing
- Ex-dividend date
- Exchange privilege
- Exchange rate
- Expense ratio
- Externality
- FAANG stocks
- Face-amount certificate
- Feeder funds
- Fiduciary responsibility
- Financial independence
- Financial management
- Fiscal policy
- Fixed annuity
- Fixed income
- Fixed-rate bond
- Folio number
- Foreign exchange markets
- Fringe benefits
- GAAP
- Garbatrage
- GATT
- GDPR
- Gilt funds
- Global indices
- Green bonds
- Gross Income
- Gross margin
- Growth-style funds
- Half stock
- Head-fake trade
- Heat maps
- Hedge Funds
- Hedged Tender.
- Hedging
- Hybrid Stocks
- Illiquidity
- Impact investing
- Inactive stock
- Inception date
- Independent financial adviser
- Indexation
- Individual retirement account (IRA)
- Individual Savings Account
- Inflation
- Insider trading
- Insurance
- Inventory turnover
- Investment grade bonds
- Investment objective
- Investment stewardship
- Investments
- Joint-stock company
- Junior market
- Junk bonds
- Large Cap Stocks
- Leaseback
- Letter of credits (LC)
- Letter of Intent
- Leverage
- Leverage ratio
- Leveraged Loan
- Liability
- Lifecycle funds
- Lipper ratings
- Liquidity risk
- Lock-in period
- Long-term investment strategy
- Market capitalisation
- Market capitalisation rate
- Market Indexes
- Maturity distribution
- Mid Cap Stocks
- Moving Average Indicator
- Municipal bonds
- Mutual fund
- Net asset value per share
- Net present value
- Net profit margin
- Noncyclical Stocks
- Online trading
- Open-ended funds
- Open-ended investment company
- Operating margin
- Option contract
- Options
- Ordinary share
- Over-the-counter stocks
- Parallel bonds
- Passive funds
- Pegging
- Penny stock
- Perpetual bonds
- Portfolio
- Preference shares
- Preferred Stock
- Price priority
- Price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio
- Primary market
- Private equity
- Profit and loss statement
- Proportionate basis
- Prospectus
- Quantitative easing
- Quantitative trading
- Quartile rank
- Quick asset
- Quick ratio
- Quote-driven market
- Racketeering
- Real estate investment trusts
- Rebalancing
- Recovering funds
- Redemption
- Redemption yield
- Reinvestment option
- Residual maturity
- Retail price index (RPI)
- Retail price index (RPI)
- Return on Assets (ROA)
- Return on Equity (ROE)
- Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
- Return on investment
- Revenue bonds
- Rights of accumulation (ROA)
- Risk tolerance
- Riskometer
- Sector funds
- Secured bonds
- Shares
- Short Selling
- Small Cap Stocks
- Special Purpose Acquisition Company
- Standard deviation
- Statement of additional information
- Stock keeping unit
- Stock Market
- Stock market crash
- Stock options
- Stock split
- Stockholder
- Style Box
- Sustainability
- Sustainable investing
- Tangible assets
- Target-date fund
- Term Fed funds
- Thematic funds
- Threshold securities
- Top-down Investing
- Tracker fund
- Trail commission
- Tranches
- Transferring assets
- Trigger Option
- Trust deed
- Trust fund
- Turnover
- Turnover Ratio
- Unborrowable stock
- Underlying asset
- Unearned Income
- Unit holder
- Unit investment trust (UIT)
- Value at risk
- Value chain
- Value investing
- Value-style funds
- Venture Capital
- Vertical analysis
- Vesting
- Volatility
- Watered stock
- Weighted average maturity
- Working capital
- Xenocurrency
- Year to date
- Yield curve
- Yield to maturity
- Zero-coupon bond
- Zero-dividend preferred stock
- Zeta model
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