- Industry: Financial services
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A theory that nominal interest rates in two or more countries should be equal to the required real rate of return to investors plus compensation for the expected amount of inflation in each country.
Industry:Financial services
A term used to designate all contracts covering the sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery on a commodity exchange.
Industry:Financial services
The notion that a firm's choice of investments is separate from its owner's attitudes toward investments. Also referred to as portfolio separation theorem.
Industry:Financial services
The identification of additional, more valuable, investment opportunities in the future that result from a current opportunity or operation.
Industry:Financial services
A market in which new information is very quickly reflected accurately in share prices.
Industry:Financial services
Note with maturity that can be extended by mutual agreement between the issuer and investors.
Industry:Financial services
The organizing principle of modern portfolio theory, which maintains that any risk-averse investor will search for the highest expected return for any particular level of portfolio risk.
Industry:Financial services
Voluntary arrangements to restructure a firm's debt, under which the payment date is postponed.
Industry:Financial services
The combinations of securities portfolios that maximize expected return for any level of expected risk, or that minimizes expected risk for any level of expected return. Pioneered by Harry Markowitz.
Industry:Financial services
The day on which the first option either expires or is extended.
Industry:Financial services
