摘要: A business practice that seeks to detect, identify, investigate and prevent events that cause a drop in value of any of an organization's revenues, assets and services. Loss-management improvements m[阅读全文:]
摘要: Seed money or capital given by family or friends to an entrepreneur to start a business. The decision to lend money and the terms of the agreement are usually based on qualitative factors and the rela[阅读全文:]
摘要: A commonly used metaphor for doing the simplest or easiest work first. In sales, it means a target that is easy to achieve or a problem that is easy to solve. It refers to the sale of consumer product[阅读全文:]
摘要: An approach taken by a company that does not want to be taken over. The company issues a large number of bonds with the condition they must be redeemed at a high price if the company is taken over.
摘要: A strategy used by a target firm to prevent a hostile takeover. In a lobster trap, the company passes a provision preventing anyone with more than 10% ownership from converting convertible securities [阅读全文:]
摘要: A short-term situation occurring within a market where both the bid and ask are identical, resulting in no bid-ask spread.
This usually occurs in stocks that are highly volatile and expe[阅读全文:]
摘要: A very disappointing investment. Your expected return wasn't even close to being achieved.
Just like the used car that breaks down while driving out of the lot, these investments leave [阅读全文:]
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A corporate manager or an executive who, like the fabled Irish elf, is a mischievous and elusive creature said to possess buried treasures of money and gold.
Also spelled "Lepre-con [阅读全文:]
摘要: A saying often used in investing that acknowledges the tendency among investors to sell winning positions too early. Most traders tend to take gains off the table early out of fear that they will evap[阅读全文:]
摘要: A security that is not registered with the SEC, and so cannot be sold publicly in the marketplace.
The name comes from the SEC requirement for an "investment letter" from the purchaser[阅读全文:]