- Industry: Financial services
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Income from an active business as opposed to passive investment income according to the U.S. tax code.
Industry:Financial services
A strategy that uses available information and forecasting techniques to seek better performance than a buy and hold portfolio. Related: Passive portfolio strategy.
Industry:Financial services
Used in context of general equities. Firm market. Antithesis of Subject market.
Industry:Financial services
The physical commodities underlying a futures contract. Cash commodity, physical asset.
Industry:Financial services
A test for ensuring that bond issuers can meet the debt service requirements of issuing any new additional bonds.
Industry:Financial services
A protection against borrower fallout risk in the mortgage pipeline.
Industry:Financial services
A test that measures the extent to which the value of an asset is protected from potential loss either through insurance or hedging.
Industry:Financial services
Applies mainly to convertible securities. Refers to interest rate or dividend that is adjusted periodically, usually according to a standard market rate outside the control of the bank or savings institution, such as that prevailing on Treasury bonds or notes. Typically, such issues have a set floor or ceiling, called caps and collars that limits the adjustment.
Industry:Financial services
A mortgage that features predetermined adjustments of the loan interest rate at regular intervals based on an established index. The interest rate is adjusted at each interval to a rate equivalent to the index value plus a predetermined spread, or margin, over the index, usually subject to per-interval and to life-of-loan interest rate and/or payment rate caps.
Industry:Financial services
Publicly traded issues that may be collateralized by mortgages and MBS
Industry:Financial services
