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Variable prepaid forward contract: an investment strategy that allows a shareholder with a concentrated stock holding to generate liquidity for diversification or other purposes. Widow-and-orphan stock: a stock that reliably provides a regular dividend while also yielding a slow but steady rise in market value over the long term. [13]
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
An exchange-traded fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that is also an exchange-traded product, i.e., it is traded on stock exchanges. [1] [2] [3] ETFs own financial assets such as stocks, bonds, currencies, debts, futures contracts, and/or commodities such as gold bars.
Investopedia's list of the most "influential" financial advisers in the United States was launched in June 2017. [14] In July 2018, Investopedia joined the Dotdash family of brands and laid off 1/3 of its staff, or 36 people. [15] The site underwent a rebranding and relaunch later in the year. [16]
Investment management (sometimes referred to more generally as asset management) is the professional asset management of various securities, including shareholdings, bonds, and other assets, such as real estate, to meet specified investment goals for the benefit of investors.
The list of reference securities making up a portfolio is one of the primary drivers of the investment outcome of a synthetic CDO. [2] Because the portfolio is not that of a corporate credit index like the CDX or iTraxx, the mean default probabilities of the reference securities, their distribution of default probabilities, their default correlations and the recovery amounts upon default can ...
Money market instruments, being short-term fixed income investments, should therefore be grouped with fixed income. In addition to stocks and bonds, we can add cash, foreign currencies, real estate, infrastructure and physical goods for investment (such as precious metals) [1] to the list of commonly held asset classes. In general, an asset ...
A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment. A hedge can be constructed from many types of financial instruments, including stocks, exchange-traded funds, insurance, forward contracts, swaps, options, gambles, [1] many types of over-the-counter and derivative products, and futures contracts.