- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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The difference between an index fund return and the index it represents. The typically lower rate of return from the fund results from transactions costs.
Industry:Financial services
An investment professional who assists individuals with long- and short-term financial goals.
Industry:Financial services
Ideal trading environment that imposes no costs or restraints on transactions.
Industry:Financial services
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.
Industry:Financial services
The "stickiness" involved in making transactions; the total process including time, effort, money, and tax effects of gathering information and making a transaction such as buying a stock or borrowing money.
Industry:Financial services
Criteria describing a corporation's choices regarding its debt/equity mix, currencies of denomination, maturity structure, method of financing investment projects, and hedging decisions with a goal of maximizing the value of the firm to some set of stockholders.
Industry:Financial services
A business combination that the management of both firms believes will be beneficial to stockholders.
Industry:Financial services
The account status of a firm's or individual's assets, liabilities, and equity positions as reflected on its financial statement.
Industry:Financial services
Merger when the target firm's management and board of directors is in favor of the takeover. Antithesis of hostile takeover.
Industry:Financial services
