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- Absolute Return
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- Account Equity
- Accrued Market Discount
- Accumulated dividend
- Active management
- Adjusted distributed income
- Allotment
- Alpha and beta
- Alternative investments
- Annual Earnings Growth
- Annualised rate of return
- Annuity
- Approvеd Invеstmеnts
- Asset
- Asset class
- Asset management
- Asset Play
- Asset stripper
- Assets under management
- Average accounting return
- Bear market
- Bearish Engulfing
- Bitcoin Mining
- Book-Entry Security
- Bought Deal
- Breadth Thrust Indicator
- Breakpoint
- Broken Date
- Bubble
- Bull Market
- Bulletin Board System
- Buy limit
- Capital appreciation
- Capital Gains Distribution
- Capitulation
- Carbon credits
- Cash Dividend
- Cash Reserve
- Cash-on-Cash Return
- Contrarian Investor
- Conversion Privilege
- Core inflation
- Core Position
- Correlation
- Cost Basis
- Counterparty
- Coupon yield
- Cryptocurrency
- Current Yield
- Deferred Annuity
- Deficit interest
- Depreciation
- Derivative Security
- Derivatives market
- Digital Assets
- Direct market access
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
- Distribution Yield
- Diversifying Portfolio
- Dividend Declaration Date
- Dividend investing
- Dollar Rolls
- Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA)
- DSPP
- Due Diligence
- Earnest Money
- EBITDA Margin
- Encumbrance
- Endowment
- EPS forecast
- Equity Hedging
- Equity options
- ESG
- ESG investing
- Expense ratio
- Face-amount certificate
- Factor Investing
- Fallen Angel
- Fiduciary
- Fixed annuity
- Fixed income
- Flash Crash
- Floating Dividend Rate
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
- Forward Contracts
- Front-End Load
- Fund Manager
- Fundamental Analysis
- Guaranteed Investment Contract (GIC)
- Heat maps
- Hedge Effectiveness
- Hedging
- High-Quality Securities
- Holding Period Return
- Homemade leverage
- Hostile takeover
- Hyperinflation
- Hypothecation
- Impact investing
- Impersonators
- Incremental Yield
- Independent financial adviser
- Inflation
- Inflation Hedge
- Initial purchase
- Insurable Interest
- International securities exchanges
- Investment advisory
- Investment Horizon
- Investment Insights
- Investment objective
- Investment Policy
- Investment stewardship
- Investments
- Issuer Risk
- Leaseback
- Leverage
- Leveraged Loan
- Liability-Driven Investment (LDI)
- Lipper ratings
- Liquidation
- Lock-in period
- Lumpsum
- Margin Requirement
- Market cycle
- Minority Interest
- Money market
- Money Market Instruments
- Mutual fund
- Negotiable Certificates of Deposit
- Net assets
- NFT
- Nominal Return
- Non-Diversifiable Risk
- Open-ended investment company
- Open-Ended Investment Company
- Open-ended scheme
- Opening price
- Operating assets
- Option contract
- Options
- Ordinary Shares
- Passive Income
- Passive Investing
- Pledged Asset
- Portfolio
- Portfolio manager
- Portfolio turnover rate
- Preference Shares
- Prepayment risk
- Primary market
- Prime bank investments
- Private equity
- Progressive tax
- Proportionate basis
- Prospectus
- Proxy Voting
- Quick asset
- Real Estate Investment Trusts
- Real Return
- Real Yield
- Realised Profit/Loss
- Rebalancing
- Reinvestment date
- Reinvestment option
- Reinvestment privilege
- Replication
- Return on investment
- Share Classes
- Share Market
- Shareholder service fees
- Shareholder Yield
- Shares
- Sharpe ratio
- Solvency
- Standard deviation
- Stochastic Oscillator
- Stock Keeping Unit
- Style Box
- Subsequent Purchase
- Sum-of-the-Parts Valuation (SOTP)
- Sustainable investing
- Systematic Investment Plan
- Tangible assets
- Target Price
- Top Holdings
- Top-down Investing
- Tracking Error
- Trail commission
- Tranches
- Transfer of Shares
- Transferring assets
- Travel insurance
- Trustee
- Turnover
- Underlying asset
- Unit holder
- Unrealised Profit/Loss
- Valuation Point
- Value of Land
- Variable annuity
- Venture Capital
- Vesting
- Volatile Market
- Volatility
- Wealth management
- Withdrawal
- Xenocurrency
- Yield curve
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