- Industry: Financial services
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Investing in different asset classes and in securities of many issuers in an attempt to reduce overall investment risk and to avoid damaging a portfolio's performance by the poor performance of a single security, industry, (or country).
Industry:Financial services
A charge assessed by an intermediary, such as a broker-dealer or a bank, for assisting in the sale or purchase of a security.
Industry:Financial services
A weighted average of individual assets' expected returns.
Industry:Financial services
Resembles a sinking fund, except that money is used to purchase bonds only if they are selling below their par value.
Industry:Financial services
A strategy using a leveraged portfolio in the underlying stock to create a synthetic put option. The strategy's goal is to ensure that the value of the portfolio does not fall below a certain level.
Industry:Financial services
The rate of return computed by first determining the cash flows for all the bonds in the portfolio and then finding the interest rate that will make the present value of the cash flows equal to the market value of the portfolio.
Industry:Financial services
