摘要: A formal legal document, which is required by and filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, that provides details about an investment offering for sale to the public. A prospectus should cont[阅读全文:]
摘要: A type of mutual fund that guarantees an investor at least the initial investment, plus any capital gains, if it is held for the contractual term. The idea behind this type of fund is that you will be[阅读全文:]
摘要: An investment fund that selects securities based on quantitative analysis. In a quant fund, the managers build computer-based models to determine whether an investment is attractive. In a pure "quant[阅读全文:]
摘要: 1. A method of hedging a portfolio of stocks against the market risk by short selling stock index futures.
2. Brokerage insurance such as the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC).[阅读全文:]
摘要: The art and science of making decisions about investment mix and policy, matching investments to objectives, asset allocation for individuals and institutions, and balancing risk against. performance.[阅读全文:]
摘要: The person or persons responsible for investing a mutual, exchange-traded or closed-end fund's assets, implementing its investment strategy and managing the day-to-day portfolio trading.
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摘要: The illegal act of bidding up the value of a fund's holdings right before the end of a quarter, when the fund's performance is measured. This is done by placing a large number of orders on existing [阅读全文:]
摘要: A grouping of financial assets such as stocks, bonds and cash equivalents, as well as their mutual, exchange-traded and closed-fund counterparts. Portfolios are held directly by investors and/or manag[阅读全文:]
摘要: A pricing situation that occurs when the stock value of a closed-end mutual fund is trading at a premium to the net asset value (NAV) of its components. The premium arises from the optimistic sentimen[阅读全文:]