- Industry: Financial services
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A mutual fund that invests primarily in countries with developing economies (that is, those that are becoming industrialized). Emerging markets funds tend to be more volatile than domestic stock funds due to currency fluctuation and political instability. Consequently, fund prices can fluctuate dramatically.
Industry:Financial services
An employee's own deposit to a company retirement plan.
Industry:Financial services
The law that regulates the operation of private pensions and benefit plans.
Industry:Financial services
A firm-sponsored programme that enables employees to purchase shares of the firm's common stock on a preferential basis.
Industry:Financial services
A company contributes to a trust fund that buys stock on behalf of employees.
Industry:Financial services
A plan usually linked to a Corporation's payroll deduction system allowing employees to purchase shares at a discount from current market value.
Industry:Financial services
The amount, if any, a company contributes on an employee's behalf to the employee's retirement account, usually tied to the employee's own contribution.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage of the labour force that is employed. The employment rate is one of the economic indicators that economists examine to help understand the state of the economy. See also: Unemployment rate.
Industry:Financial services
Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows only the bidder of a tender offer to trade in the stock while possessing inside information.
Industry:Financial services
A property owned by one party on which a second party reserves the right to make a valid claim, e.g., a bank's holding of a home mortgage encumbers property.
Industry:Financial services
