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Ex ante return
The expected return or anticipation return of an asset or portfolio.

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Perfect forecast line
Graph of a slope that matches the forecast of an exchange rate with the actual exchange rate.

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The portion of an employee's salary contributed to a retirement plan before federal income taxes are deducted; this reduces the individual's gross income for federal tax purposes.
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Money market instruments
See: Cash investments

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APFinancial Comprehensive Proposals: Capitalization ratios
Also called financial leverage ratios, these ratios compare debt to total capitalization and thus reflect the extent to which a corporation is trading on its equity. Capitalization ratios can be interpreted only in the context of the stability of industry and company earnings and cash flow.

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Total debt-to-equity ratio
A capitalization ratio comparing current liabilities plus long-termdebt to shareholders' equity.

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High withholding tax interest income
Interest income that is subject to a foreign gross withholding tax of 5% or more. Specified in US tax code.

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Clean up
In the context of general equities, purchase/sale of all the remaining supply of stock, or the last piece of a block, in a trade-leaving a net zero position.

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AP Financial Finance: Certified Financial Planner (CFP)
A person who has passed examinations accredited by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, showing that the person is able to manage a client's banking, estate, insurance, investment, and tax affairs.
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Statutory surplus
The surplus of an insurance company determined by the accounting treatment of both assets and liabilities as established by state statutes.

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APFinancial Comprehensive Proposals: Proxy Fight
Competition of outside group with management for stockholders'proxies in order to accumulate votes to elect a new board of directors.

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Paired shares
Stock of two companies under the same management that are sold as one unit with one certificate.

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Greater fool theory
An investment notion that even when a stock is fully valued by conventional standards, there is room for upward movement because there are enough buyers to push prices farther upward purely on speculation or hype.

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Statement of condition
A document describing the status of assets, liabilities, and equity of a person or business at a particular time.

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AP Financial services industry: Liquidity theory of the term structure
A biased expectations theory that asserts that the implied forward rates will not be a pure estimate of the market's expectations of future interest rates because they embody a liquiditypremium.
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Comeout
In the context of general equities, the opening. Antithesis of the close.

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APFinancial Comprehensive Proposals: Dividend Disbursing Agent
A commercial bank or financial_institution that disburses dividend to the securityholders. Usually a Transfer Agent is also the Dividend Disbursing Agent.

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Seller financing
Funding a purchase by a seller's loan to the buyer, the buyer takes full title to the property when the loan is fully repaid.

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CREST
CREST is CrestCo's real-time settlement system for UK and Irish shares and other corporate securities. CrestCo has provided settlement systems for government bonds and money market instruments in the UK since 1990.

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Thrift institution
An organization formed as a depository for primarily consumer savings. Savings and loan associations and savings banks are thrift institutions.

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AP Financial high interest: Proxy contest
A battle for the control of a firm in which a dissident group seeks, from the firm's other shareholders, the right to vote those shareholders' shares in favor of the dissident group's slate of directors. Also called proxy fights.
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Projected maturity date
With CMOs, the date at the end of the estimated cash flow window where final payment is made.

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APFinancial Comprehensive Proposals: Repo
An agreement in which one party sells a security to another party and agrees to repurchase it on a specified date for a specified price. See: Repurchase agreement.

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Randomized strategy
A strategy of introducing into the decision-making process a chance element that is designed to confound the information content of the decision-maker's observed choices.

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Financial planning
Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against that plan.

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BARRA's performance analysis (PERFAN)
A method developed by BARRA, a consulting firm in Berkeley, Calif. It is commonly used by institutional investors applying performance attribution analysis to evaluate their money managers' performance.

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AP Financial INC: Porcupine provision
Often used in risk arbitrage. See: Shark repellent.
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Deferred payment annuity
An annuity that stipulates payments be made to the annuitant at a later date, such as when the annuitant reaches a certain age.

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APFinancial: Sentiment indicators
The general feeling of investors about the state of the market, such as whether they are bullish or bearish.

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Skill
The ability to accurately forecast returns. We measure skill using the information coefficient.

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Buy-side analyst
A financial analyst employed by a nonbrokerage firm, typically one of the larger money managementfirms that purchasessecurities on its own account.

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Collection period
See: Collection ratio

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: All equity rate
The discount rate that reflects only the business risks of a project, distinct from the effects of financing.
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Nonclearing member
An exchange memberfirm that is not able to clear transactions, and must pay another member firm to carry out its clearing operations.

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APFinancial: Drive-by VC
A type of venture capitalist. In the usual model, the venture capitalist (VC) is involved in management and monitoring of the startup. A drive-by VC invests in a portfolio of startups and is often quick to exit.

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Beta equation (security) The market beta of a security is determined as follows: Regressexcess returns of stock y on excess returns of the market. The slope coefficient is beta. Define n as number of observation numbers. Beta= [(n) (sum of [xy]) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of y)]/ [(n) (sum of [xx]) ]-[ (sum of x) (sum of x)] where: n = # of observations (usually 36 to 60 months) x = rate of return for the S&P 500 index y = rate of return for the security. Related: Alpha

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Customized benchmarks
A benchmark that is designed to meet a client's requirements and long-term objectives.

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Exchange rate risk
Also called currency risk; the risk that an investment's value will change because of currency exchange rates.

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: Path-dependent option
An option whose value depends on the sequence of prices of the underlying asset rather than just the final price of the asset.
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Support
An effective lower bound on prices supported because of many willing buyers at that price level.



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