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FIN 46, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, was an interpretation of United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) published on January 17, 2003 by the U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) [1] that made it more difficult to remove assets and liabilities from a company's balance sheet if the company retained an economic exposure to the assets and ...
Series 47 – Japanese Module of the General Securities Exam; Series 50 – Municipal Advisor Representative Exam; Series 52 – Municipal Securities Representative Exam; Series 55 – Equity Trader – Limited Representative Exam; Series 56 – Proprietary Trader Qualification Exam; Series 57 – Securities Trader Qualification Exam [7]
Grinold, Kroner, and Siegel (2011) estimated the inputs to the Grinold and Kroner model and arrived at a then-current equity risk premium estimate between 3.5% and 4%. [2] The equity risk premium is the difference between the expected total return on a capitalization-weighted stock market index and the yield on a riskless government bond (in ...
The entity does not have enough equity to finance its activities without additional subordinated financial support (e.g., the entity is thinly capitalized) The equity holders, as a group, lack any one of the common characteristics of a controlling financial interest: The power to direct the economic activities of the entity through voting rights
That is, it is the risk of the actual return being below the expected return, or the uncertainty about the magnitude of that difference. [1] [2] Risk measures typically quantify the downside risk, whereas the standard deviation (an example of a deviation risk measure) measures both the upside and downside risk
Equity risk is "the financial risk involved in holding equity in a particular investment." [1] Equity risk is a type of market risk that applies to investing in shares. [2] The market price of stocks fluctuates all the time, depending on supply and demand. The risk of losing money due to a reduction in the market price of shares is known as ...
Financial instruments are monetary contracts between parties. They can be created, traded, modified and settled. They can be cash (currency), evidence of an ownership, interest in an entity or a contractual right to receive or deliver in the form of currency (forex); debt (bonds, loans); equity (); or derivatives (options, futures, forwards).
Earnings at risk (EaR) and the related cash flow at risk (CFaR) [1] [2] [3] are measures reflecting the potential impact of market risk on the income statement and cash flow statement respectively, and hence the risk to the institution's return on assets and, ultimately, return on equity.