- Industry: Financial services
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The percentage of a mutual fund's assets invested in short-term reserves, such as US Treasury bills or other money market instruments.
Industry:Financial services
The month in which futures contracts may be satisfied by making or accepting a delivery.
Industry:Financial services
A plan in which fixed dollar amounts of mutual fund shares are purchased through periodic investments, usually featuring some sort of additional incentive for the fixed period payments.
Industry:Financial services
In the context of general equities, stock that tends to go against the trend of the market as a whole, such as a commodities-related stock or one in an industry out of favor with investors in a bull market.
Industry:Financial services
An investment style that leads one to buy assets that have performed poorly and sell assets that have performed well. There are two possible reasons this strategy might work. The first is a mean-reversion argument; that is, if the asset has deviated from its usual level, it should eventually return to that usual level. The second reason has to do with overreaction. Investors might have overreacted to bad news sending the asset price lower than it should be.
Industry:Financial services
Transaction in which a contract is settled on the same day as the trade date, or the next day if the trade occurs after 2:30 p.m. EST and the parties agree to this procedure. Often occurs because a party is strapped for cash and cannot wait until the regular five-business day settlement. See: Settlement date.
Industry:Financial services
Ignoring market trends by buying securities that the investor considers undervalued and out of favor with other investors.
Industry:Financial services
