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bank discount yield
|
An annualized interest rate assuming simple interest, a 360-day year, and using the face value of the security rather than purchase price to compute return per dollar invested.banker™s acceptance An order to a bank by a customer to pay a sum of money at a future date.
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zvi
| 0 | 23.77 | 21.6 | 0 | 10.4 | 24.3 | 10.34 | 30.5 | 23.91 |
baseline forecasts
|
Forecast of security returns derived from the assumption that the market is in equilibrium where current prices reflect all available information.
|
zvi
| 0 | 24.78 | 15 | 0 | 17.23 | 17.3 | 12.95 | 14.5 | 16.02 |
basis
|
The difference between the futures price and the spot price.
|
zvi
| 0 | 78.25 | 4.8 | 0 | 10.24 | 7.6 | 5.71 | 5 | 4 |
behavioral finance
|
Models of financial markets that emphasize implications of psychological factors affecting investor behavior.
|
zvi
| 0 | -17.87 | 19 | 0 | 24.64 | 20.2 | 16.43 | 12.5 | 23.66 |
benchmark error
|
Use of an inappropriate proxy for the true market portfolio.
|
zvi
| 0 | 52.87 | 8.4 | 0 | 10.24 | 7.6 | 8.87 | 6 | 12 |
benchmark portfolio
|
Portfolio against which a manager is to be evaluated.
|
zvi
| 0 | 45.42 | 9.2 | 0 | 9.31 | 6.6 | 7.59 | 6.5 | 12.49 |
bid price
|
The price at which a dealer is willing to purchase a security.
|
zvi
| 0 | 67.76 | 6.8 | 0 | 6.02 | 4.6 | 8.18 | 6 | 8.13 |
abnormal return
|
Return on a stock beyond what would be predicted by market movements alone. Cumulative abnor-mal return @CAR@ is the total for the period surrounding an announcement or the release of information.
|
zvi
| 0 | 38.82 | 11.7 | 0 | 12.53 | 11.5 | 10.52 | 11.25 | 13.94 |
accounting earnings
|
Earnings of a firm as reported on its income statement.
|
zvi
| 0 | 69.79 | 6 | 0 | 7.34 | 5.2 | 10.45 | 5 | 8 |
active management
|
Attempts to achieve portfolio returns more than commensurate with risk, either by forecasting broad market trends or by identifying mispriced sectors of a market or particular securities.
|
zvi
| 0 | 18.69 | 17.4 | 0 | 17.18 | 20.1 | 12.58 | 19.5 | 19.69 |
active portfolio
|
In the context of the Treynor-Black model, the portfolio formed by mixing analyzed stocks of perceived nonzero alpha values. This portfolio is ultimately mixed with the passive market-index portfolio.
|
zvi
| 0 | 48.3 | 10.1 | 0 | 15.54 | 13.8 | 13.07 | 8.75 | 9.94 |
adjusted alphas
|
Forecasts for alpha that are modulated to account for statistical imprecision in the analyst™s estimate.
|
zvi
| 0 | 13.95 | 15 | 0 | 16.52 | 14.3 | 12.8 | 12.5 | 19.33 |
agency problem
|
Conflicts of interest among stockholders, bondholders, and managers.
|
zvi
| 0 | 29.52 | 11.1 | 0 | 22.4 | 18.5 | 13.9 | 6 | 18.2 |
algorithmic trading
|
The use of computer programs to make trading decisions.
|
zvi
| 0 | 53.88 | 8 | 0 | 10.58 | 7.7 | 11.1 | 5.5 | 12.49 |
alpha transfer
|
A strategy in which you invest in positive alpha positions, hedge the systematic risk of the investment, and finally establish market exposure where you want it using passive indexes. @See
|
zvi
| 0 | 24.11 | 17.4 | 0 | 13.3 | 18.5 | 12.49 | 24 | 22.67 |
alpha value
|
The abnormal rate of return on a security in excess of what would be predicted by an equilibrium model like the CAPM.
|
zvi
| 0 | 49.15 | 11.9 | 0 | 7.78 | 10.1 | 9.75 | 15 | 16.07 |
American depositary receipts ADRs
|
Domestically traded securities representing claims to shares of foreign stocks.
|
zvi
| 0 | 10.56 | 14.3 | 0 | 21.26 | 16.5 | 16.76 | 7 | 16 |
European option
|
American option An American option can be exercised before and up to its expiration date. Compare with a , which can be exercised only on the expiration date.
|
zvi
| 0 | 40.85 | 10.9 | 0 | 9.62 | 8.2 | 6.06 | 9 | 8.36 |
announcement date
|
Date on which particular news con-cerning a given company is announced to the public. Used in event studies, which researchers use to evaluate the eco-nomic impact of events of interest.
|
zvi
| 0 | 56.25 | 9.1 | 0 | 11.53 | 10.7 | 11.22 | 10.5 | 10 |
annual percentage rate APR
|
Interest rate is annualized using simple rather than compound interest.
|
zvi
| 0 | 27.49 | 11.9 | 0 | 16.62 | 12.8 | 10.45 | 7 | 12 |
anomalies
|
Patterns of returns that seem to contradict the efficient market hypothesis.
|
zvi
| 0 | 34.93 | 11.1 | 0 | 15.81 | 12.3 | 11.36 | 7.5 | 15.31 |
appraisal ratio
|
The signal-to-noise ratio of an analyst™s forecasts. The ratio of alpha to residual standard deviation.
|
zvi
| 0 | 46.94 | 8.6 | 0 | 13.24 | 10.3 | 13.48 | 4.25 | 11 |
calendar spread
|
Buy one option and write another with a different expiration date.
|
zvi
| 0 | 51.85 | 8.8 | 0 | 10.54 | 8 | 7.05 | 7.5 | 8.04 |
call protection
|
An initial period during which a callable bond may not be called.
|
zvi
| 0 | 84.68 | 4.4 | 0 | 7.47 | 5.8 | 10.81 | 6 | 8.13 |
callable bond
|
A bond that the issuer may repurchase at a given call price in some specified period.
|
zvi
| 0 | 63.7 | 8.4 | 0 | 7.42 | 7.2 | 9.36 | 11 | 13.9 |
capital allocation decision
|
Allocation of invested funds between risk-free assets versus the risky portfolio.
|
zvi
| 0 | 26.47 | 12.3 | 0 | 17.9 | 14.4 | 15.67 | 7.5 | 15.31 |
capital allocation line CAL
|
A graph showing all feasible riskŒreturn combinations of a risky and risk-free asset.
|
zvi
| 0 | 49.82 | 9.5 | 0 | 13.5 | 11.5 | 14 | 7.5 | 11.35 |
capital gains
|
The amount by which the sale price of a security exceeds the purchase price.
|
zvi
| 0 | 74.19 | 6.4 | 0 | 7.82 | 6.8 | 7.71 | 7 | 8.46 |
capital market line CML
|
The capital allocation line that results when using the market index as the risky portfolio.
|
zvi
| 0 | 47.79 | 10.3 | 0 | 11.88 | 10.6 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 11.33 |
capital markets
|
Includes longer-term, relatively riskier securities.
|
zvi
| 0 | -35.13 | 19.4 | 0 | 30.48 | 26.3 | 19.67 | 3.5 | 18 |
cash equivalents
|
Short-term money-market securities.
|
zvi
| 0 | -75.4 | 24.5 | 0 | 32.43 | 31.9 | 9.05 | 2.5 | 14.53 |
cash flow matching
|
A form of immunization, matching cash flows from a bond portfolio with those of an obligation.
|
zvi
| 0 | 63.7 | 8.4 | 0 | 10.32 | 9.8 | 10.35 | 11 | 13.9 |
cash ratio
|
Measure of liquidity of a firm. Ratio of cash and marketable securities to current liabilities.
|
zvi
| 0 | 38.48 | 9.8 | 0 | 10.92 | 7.8 | 11.38 | 4.25 | 11 |
cash settlement
|
The provision of some futures contracts that requires not delivery of the underlying assets @as in agricultural futures@ but settlement according to the cash value of the asset.
|
zvi
| 0 | 26.14 | 16.6 | 0 | 13.47 | 17.8 | 10.66 | 20 | 18.34 |
cash/bond selection
|
Asset allocation in which the choice is between short-term cash equivalents and longer-term bonds.
|
zvi
| 0 | 57.27 | 8.8 | 0 | 16.12 | 14.2 | 9.97 | 8 | 11.31 |
certainty equivalent rate
|
The certain return providing the same utility as a risky portfolio.
|
zvi
| 0 | 51.85 | 8.8 | 0 | 11.06 | 8.5 | 9.92 | 7.5 | 15.31 |
certificate of deposit
|
A bank time deposit.
|
zvi
| 0 | 92.8 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 1 | 1.6 |
clearinghouse
|
Established by exchanges to facilitate transfer of securities resulting from trades. For options and futures contracts, the may interpose itself as a middleman between two traders.
|
zvi
| 0 | 41.36 | 10.7 | 0 | 15.76 | 13.1 | 12.18 | 8.5 | 14.43 |
closed-end mutual fund
|
A fund whose shares are traded through brokers at market prices; the fund will not redeem shares at their net asset value. The market price of the fund can differ from the net asset value.
|
zvi
| 0 | 79.09 | 6.6 | 0 | 7.42 | 8 | 8.11 | 7.75 | 7 |
collar
|
An options strategy that brackets the value of a port-folio between two bounds.
|
zvi
| 0 | 58.28 | 8.4 | 0 | 10.83 | 9.3 | 11.57 | 7.5 | 8.28 |
collateral
|
A specific asset pledged against possible default on a bond. Mortgage bonds are backed by claims on prop-erty. Collateral trust bonds are backed by claims on other securities. Equipment obligation bonds are backed by claims on equipment.
|
zvi
| 0 | 70.5 | 5.7 | 10.1 | 11.68 | 8.8 | 10.5 | 5.125 | 8.04 |
collateralized debt obligation CDO
|
A pool of loans sliced into several tranches with different levels of credit risk.bidŒask spread The difference between a dealer™s bid and ask price.
|
zvi
| 0 | 55.58 | 11.5 | 0 | 13 | 15.3 | 10.75 | 15 | 9.6 |
binomial model
|
An option-valuation model predicated on the assumption that stock prices can move to only two values over any short time period.
|
zvi
| 0 | 33.24 | 13.8 | 0 | 12.01 | 13.3 | 10.69 | 14.5 | 16.02 |
Black-Scholes pricing formula
|
An equation to value an option that uses the stock price, the exercise price, the risk-free interest rate, the time to maturity, and the standard deviation of the stock return.
|
zvi
| 0 | 41.03 | 15 | 0 | 10.57 | 16.6 | 9.86 | 19 | 17.33 |
blocks
|
A transaction of more than 10,000 shares of stock. Also referred to as a block sale.
|
zvi
| 0 | 88.74 | 2.9 | 0 | 4.31 | 2.9 | 8.97 | 3.5 | 5.7 |
bogey
|
The return an investment manager is compared to for performance evaluation.
|
zvi
| 0 | 26.47 | 12.3 | 0 | 15.29 | 11.9 | 9.92 | 8.5 | 15.31 |
bond
|
A security issued by a borrower that obligates the issuer to make specified payments to the holder over a specific period. A coupon obligates the issuer to make interest payments called coupon payments over the life of the , then to repay the
|
zvi
| 0 | 41.7 | 12.7 | 0 | 10.04 | 11.5 | 9.19 | 14.75 | 15.07 |
bond equivalent yield
|
Bond yield calculated on an annual percentage rate method. Differs from effective annual yield.
|
zvi
| 0 | 38.99 | 9.6 | 0 | 13.17 | 9.7 | 13.01 | 5 | 14.23 |
bond indenture
|
The contract between the issuer and the bondholder.
|
zvi
| 0 | 63.36 | 6.4 | 0 | 11.56 | 8.5 | 9.95 | 4 | 8.2 |
bond reconstitution
|
Combining zero-coupon stripped securities to re-create the original cash flows of a coupon bond.
|
zvi
| 0 | 48.81 | 9.9 | 0 | 15.25 | 13.5 | 15.61 | 11 | 14.17 |
bond stripping
|
Selling bond cash flows @either coupon or principal payments@ as stand-alone zero-coupon securities.
|
zvi
| 0 | 41.36 | 10.7 | 0 | 18.84 | 17 | 14 | 8.5 | 11.35 |
book value
|
The net worth of common equity according to a firm™s balance sheet.
|
zvi
| 0 | 59.3 | 8 | 0 | 8.4 | 6.6 | 12.13 | 7 | 11.47 |
book-to-market effect
|
The tendency for stocks of firms with high ratios of book-to-market value to generate abnor-mal returns.
|
zvi
| 0 | 46.78 | 10.7 | 0 | 13.22 | 12.8 | 12.33 | 12 | 11.4 |
breadth
|
The extent to which movements in the broad market index are reflected widely in movements of indi-vidual stock prices.
|
zvi
| 0 | 43.73 | 11.9 | 0 | 12.65 | 12.8 | 11.23 | 11.5 | 11.81 |
brokered market
|
A market where an intermediary @a broker@ offers search services to buyers and sellers.
|
zvi
| 0 | 40.35 | 11.1 | 0 | 11.53 | 10.5 | 11.1 | 7 | 8.46 |
budget deficit
|
The amount by which government spending exceeds government revenues.
|
zvi
| 0 | 45.42 | 9.2 | 0 | 18.99 | 14.5 | 9.35 | 5.5 | 3.6 |
bull CD, bear CD
|
A bull CD pays its holder a specified percentage of the increase in return on a specified market index while guaranteeing a minimum rate of return. A bear CD pays the holder a fraction of any fall in a given market index.
|
zvi
| 0 | 28.85 | 19.7 | 0 | 8.2 | 19.8 | 9.1 | 13 | 20.61 |
bullish, bearish
|
Words used to describe investor attitudes. Bullish means optimistic; bearish means pessimistic. Also used in bull market and bear market.
|
zvi
| 0 | 64.67 | 5.9 | 7.8 | 12.82 | 9.7 | 9.5 | 3 | 6.68 |
bundling, unbundling
|
Creation of securities either by com-bining primitive and derivative securities into one composite hybrid or by separating returns on an asset into classes or tranches.
|
zvi
| 0 | 3.8 | 18.9 | 0 | 15.96 | 18.2 | 13.09 | 19.5 | 18 |
business cycle
|
Repetitive cycles of recession and recovery.Final PDF to printer˛ 3
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zvi
| 0 | 27.49 | 11.9 | 0 | 14.3 | 10.9 | 16.76 | 7 | 16 |
cost-of-carry relationship
|
See spot-futures parity theorem.
|
zvi
| 0 | -8.73 | 15.5 | 0 | 15.95 | 14.7 | 15.68 | 4 | 21.6 |
country selection
|
Asset allocation in which the investor chooses among investments in different countries.
|
zvi
| 0 | 33.92 | 11.5 | 0 | 18.55 | 14.8 | 12.13 | 8 | 11.47 |
coupon rate
|
A bond™s interest payments per dollar of par value.
|
zvi
| 0 | 53.88 | 8 | 0 | 8.03 | 5.6 | 14.61 | 4.5 | 8.04 |
covered call
|
A combination of selling a call option together with buying the underlying asset.
|
zvi
| 0 | 32.9 | 11.9 | 0 | 12.17 | 10.1 | 11.57 | 8.5 | 11.35 |
credit default swap CDS
|
An insurance policy on the credit risk of a corporate bond or loan.
|
zvi
| 0 | 66.74 | 7.2 | 0 | 5.9 | 5 | 11.57 | 8.5 | 14.43 |
credit enhancement
|
Purchase of the financial guarantee of another party to reduce the credit risk of a bond or loan.
|
zvi
| 0 | 53.21 | 10.3 | 0 | 7.89 | 8.5 | 10.67 | 12 | 11.64 |
credit risk
|
The risk that the bond will not make all of its promised payments; default risk.
|
zvi
| 0 | 98.55 | 3.2 | 0 | 6.89 | 6.8 | 9.64 | 6.5 | 6 |
cross-hedge
|
Hedging a position in one asset using futures contracts on another commodity.
|
zvi
| 0 | 25.46 | 12.7 | 0 | 13.27 | 10.5 | 13.44 | 8 | 11.47 |
cumulative abnormal return CAR
|
See abnormal return.
|
zvi
| 0 | 34.59 | 9.2 | 0 | 7.32 | 8.3 | 9.05 | 1.5 | 14.53 |
currency selection
|
Asset allocation in which the investor chooses among investments denominated in different currencies.
|
zvi
| 0 | 7.52 | 15.4 | 0 | 21.1 | 17.3 | 12.78 | 11.5 | 17.51 |
current ratio
|
Current assets/current liabilities. Measures the ability of the firm to pay off its current liabilities by liquidating current assets.
|
zvi
| 0 | 19.53 | 12.9 | 0 | 15.45 | 12.1 | 9.93 | 6.25 | 10.12 |
current yield
|
A bond™s annual coupon payment divided by its price. Differs from yield to maturity.
|
zvi
| 0 | 55.91 | 7.2 | 0 | 8.65 | 5.9 | 13.01 | 4 | 11.37 |
cyclical industries
|
Industries with above-average sensitiv-ity to the state of the economy.
|
zvi
| 0 | 27.49 | 11.9 | 0 | 15.46 | 12.8 | 12.03 | 8 | 20 |
dark pools
|
Electronic trading networks where participants can anonymously buy or sell large blocks of securities.
|
zvi
| 0 | 31.89 | 12.3 | 0 | 18.61 | 15.5 | 12.23 | 11 | 17.03 |
data mining
|
Sorting through large amounts of historical data to uncover systematic patterns that can be used as the basis of a trading strategy.
|
zvi
| 0 | 40.69 | 13.1 | 0 | 11.72 | 13.4 | 11.9 | 15 | 16.07 |
day order
|
A buy order or a sell order expiring at the close of the trading day.days™ receivables See
|
zvi
| 0 | 62.68 | 8.7 | 0 | 7.31 | 7.6 | 8.19 | 10.5 | 11.51 |
dealer market
|
A market where traders specializing in particular assets buy and sell assets for their own accounts.
|
zvi
| 0 | 46.78 | 10.7 | 0 | 12.87 | 11.6 | 9.36 | 9 | 11.4 |
debenture bond
|
A bond not backed by specific collateral. Also called anunsecured bond.
|
zvi
| 0 | 57.43 | 6.6 | 0 | 9.96 | 7.5 | 12.52 | 3.25 | 13.11 |
debt securities
|
Bonds; also called fixed-income securities.
|
zvi
| 0 | 15.64 | 12.3 | 0 | 20.04 | 17.8 | 16.52 | 3.5 | 10 |
dedication strategy
|
Multiperiod cash flow matching.
|
zvi
| 0 | 33.58 | 9.6 | 0 | 15.95 | 13.5 | 11.73 | 2 | 11.6 |
default premium
|
A differential in promised yield that compensates the investor for the risk inherent in purchasing a corporate bond that entails some risk of default.
|
zvi
| 0 | 47.12 | 12.7 | 0 | 13.47 | 15.5 | 12.72 | 17 | 17.93 |
collateralized mortgage obligation CMO
|
A mortgage pass-through security that partitions cash flows from underlying mortgages into classes called tranches that receive principal payments according to stipulated rules.
|
zvi
| 0 | 14.29 | 17 | 0 | 21.59 | 21.8 | 14.39 | 17.5 | 19.63 |
commercial paper
|
Short-term unsecured debt issued by large corporations.
|
zvi
| 0 | 30.53 | 10.7 | 0 | 18.97 | 15 | 13.01 | 4.5 | 14.23 |
common stock
|
Equities, or equity securities, issued as ownership shares in a publicly held corporation. Sharehold-ers have voting rights and may receive dividends based on their proportionate ownership.
|
zvi
| 0 | 24.44 | 13.1 | 0 | 17.33 | 14.8 | 13.39 | 11 | 15.97 |
comparison universe
|
The set of money managers employ-ing similar investment styles, used for assessing the relative performance of a portfolio manager.
|
zvi
| 0 | 26.81 | 14.2 | 0 | 16.3 | 16.1 | 12.89 | 17.5 | 20.23 |
complete portfolio
|
The entire portfolio, including risky and risk-free assets.
|
zvi
| 0 | 37.98 | 10 | 0 | 15.91 | 13.2 | 15.88 | 5 | 13.2 |
conditional tail expectation CTE
|
Expectation of a random variable conditional on its falling below some threshold value. Often used as a measure of downside risk.
|
zvi
| 0 | 52.36 | 8.6 | 0 | 10.82 | 8.3 | 10.17 | 5.25 | 8.01 |
confidence index
|
Ratio of the yield on top-rated corporate bonds to the yield on intermediate-grade bonds.
|
zvi
| 0 | 57.27 | 8.8 | 0 | 12.35 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 8 | 11.31 |
conservativism
|
Notion that investors are too slow to update their beliefs in response to new evidence.
|
zvi
| 0 | 64.71 | 8 | 0 | 9.97 | 9 | 10.7 | 7.5 | 8.67 |
constant-growth DDM
|
A special case of the dividend discount model that assumes dividends will grow at a constant rate.
|
zvi
| 0 | 54.22 | 9.9 | 0 | 10.03 | 9.8 | 10.98 | 10.5 | 11.51 |
contango theory
|
Holds that the futures price must exceed the expected future spot price.
|
zvi
| 0 | 76.22 | 5.6 | 0 | 10.83 | 8.5 | 10.81 | 6 | 8.13 |
contingent immunization
|
A mixed passive-active strat-egy that immunizes a portfolio if necessary to guarantee a minimum acceptable return but otherwise allows active management.
|
zvi
| 0 | 7.86 | 17.4 | 0 | 18.62 | 18.9 | 14.45 | 20.5 | 21.73 |
convergence arbitrage
|
A bet that two or more prices are out of alignment and that profits can be made when the prices converge back to proper relationship.
|
zvi
| 0 | 71.48 | 9.5 | 0 | 8.07 | 11.6 | 8.03 | 13.5 | 11.6 |
convergence property
|
The convergence of futures prices and spot prices at the maturity of the futures contract.
|
zvi
| 0 | 64.71 | 8 | 0 | 11.13 | 9.9 | 9.64 | 8.5 | 11.33 |
convexity
|
The curvature of the price-yield relationship of a bond.
|
zvi
| 0 | 62.34 | 6.8 | 0 | 10.58 | 8.2 | 11.1 | 5.5 | 12.49 |
corporate bonds
|
Long-term debt issued by private corporations typically paying semiannual coupons and returning the face value of the bond at maturity.
|
zvi
| 0 | 17.34 | 15.8 | 0 | 15.78 | 15.9 | 13.31 | 15 | 18 |
correlation coefficient
|
A statistic in which the covariance is scaled to a value between fi1 @perfect negative correla-tion@ and +1 @perfect positive [email protected] PDF to printer˝ 4
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zvi
| 0 | 29.18 | 15.4 | 0 | 13.41 | 17.1 | 14.35 | 17.5 | 16.4 |
defensive industries
|
Industries with below-average sensitivity to the state of the economy.
|
zvi
| 0 | 2.11 | 15.5 | 0 | 15.46 | 12.3 | 10.45 | 8 | 20 |
deferred annuities
|
Tax-advantaged life insurance product. Deferred annuities offer deferral of taxes with the option of withdrawing one™s funds in the form of a life annuity.
|
zvi
| 0 | 42.38 | 10.3 | 0 | 13.04 | 10.5 | 12.13 | 8 | 14.8 |
defined benefit plans
|
Pension plans in which retirement benefits are set according to a fixed formula.
|
zvi
| 0 | 49.82 | 9.5 | 0 | 11.7 | 9.7 | 12.78 | 10.5 | 17.51 |
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