- Industry: Financial services
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A fund that may employ a variety of techniques to enhance returns, such as both buying and shorting stocks according to a valuation model.
Industry:Financial services
An underwriting in which an investment banking firm commits to buy and sell an entire issue of stock and assumes all financial responsibility for any unsold shares.
Industry:Financial services
The total value of a portfolio's securities, cash, and other holdings, minus any outstanding debts.
Industry:Financial services
Describes the characteristics and/or experience of the total universe of a coupon of MBS sector type; that is, in contrast to a specific pool or collateral group, as in a specific CMO issue.
Industry:Financial services
The internal rules of a brokerage house that govern the minimum amount of equity that must be present in a customer's margin account.
Industry:Financial services
Measured by the R-square in a regression of spot rate changes on futures price changes.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, prices at which a security can actually be bought or sold in decent sizes, as compared to an inside market with very little depth. See: Actual market.
Industry:Financial services
Set of funds with different investment objectives offered by one management company. In many cases, investors may move their assets from one fund to another within the family at little or no cost.
Industry:Financial services
Models that optimise rules by mimicking the Darwinian Law of survival of the fittest. A set of rules are chosen by those that work the best. The weakest are discarded. In addition, two successful rules can be combined (the equivalent to genetic cross-overs) to produce offspring rules. The offspring can replace the parents, or they will be discarded if less successful than the parents. Mutation is also accomplished by randomly changing elements. Mutation and cross-over occur with low probability, as in nature.
Industry:Financial services
People who are short on cash because most of their money is tied up in their homes are "house poor."
Industry:Financial services
