- Industry: Financial services
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A limited partnership that receives income and tax benefits such as depreciation costs by purchasing equipment and leasing it to other parties.
Industry:Financial services
Certificates issued by a trust that is formed to purchase an asset and lease it to a lessee. When the last of the certificates has been repaid, title and ownership of the asset transfers to the lessee.
Industry:Financial services
Ownership interest in a firm. Also, the residual dollar value of a futures trading account, assuming its liquidation is at the going trade price. In real estate, dollar difference between what a property could be sold for and debts claimed against it. In a brokerage account, equity equals the value of the account's securities minus any debit balance in a margin account. Equity is also shorthand for stock market investments.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement in which one party, for an up-front premium, agrees to pay the other at specific time periods if a designated stock market benchmark tops a predetermined level.
Industry:Financial services
Also called a residual claim; a claim to a share of earnings after debt obligations have been satisfied.
Industry:Financial services
The simultaneous purchase of an equity floor and sale of an equity cap.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement to contribute equity to a project under certain specified conditions.
Industry:Financial services
An agreement in which one party agrees to pay the other at specific time periods if a specific stock market benchmark falls below a predetermined level.
Industry:Financial services
An investment consisting of a life insurance policy and a mutual fund. The insurance policy is paid by the collateral value of fund shares, give the investor the advantages of insurance protection with the growth potential of a mutual fund.
Industry:Financial services
