摘要:An indicator of how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. ROA gives an idea as to how efficient management is at using its assets to generate earnings. Calculated by dividing a company[阅读全文]

摘要:A department of the U.S. Treasury that enforces economic and trade sanctions against countries and groups of individuals involved in terrorism, narcotics and other disreputable activities.

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摘要:A value created by professor Benjamin Graham in the mid-twentieth century to determine if a company was trading at a fair market price. NCAVPS is calculated by taking a company's current assets and s[阅读全文]

摘要:An expression for net asset value that represents a fund's (mutual, exchange-traded, and closed-end) or a company's value per share. It is calculated by dividing the total net asset value of the fun[阅读全文]

摘要:A mutual fund's price per share or exchange-traded fund's (ETF) per-share value. In both cases, the per-share dollar amount of the fund is calculated by dividing the total value of all the securitie[阅读全文]

摘要:A measure of the intraday net asset value (NAV) of an investment, such as an exchange-traded fund (ETF), which gives an updated measure of the value of the investment based on its assets less its liab[阅读全文]

摘要:The market value of an insurance company's assets in excess of its policy liabilities.

|||FAR accounts for assets that aren't being tied up as collateral for policies. Measuring the st[阅读全文]

摘要:A financial model that extends the concepts of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) to include the amount that an individual or firm wishes to consume in the future. The CCAPM uses consumption measu[阅读全文]

摘要:The market value of assets that an investment company manages on behalf of investors. Assets under management (AUM) is looked at as a measure of success against the competition and consists of growth/[阅读全文]

摘要:A risk-management committee in a bank or other lending institution that generally comprises the senior-management levels of the institution. The ALCO's primary goal is to evaluate, monitor and approv[阅读全文]

摘要:A lending program created by the Federal Reserve Board on September 19, 2008, that will provide new funding to U.S. financial institutions until October 30, 2009. The Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Mon[阅读全文]

摘要:A company that invests its clients' pooled fund into securities that match its declared financial objectives. Asset management companies provide investors with more diversification and investing opti[阅读全文]

摘要:Similar in structure to a plain vanilla swap, the key difference is the underlying of the swap contra[阅读全文]

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An asset that becomes illiquid when its secondary market disappears. Toxic assets cannot be sold, as they are often guaranteed to lose money. The term "to[阅读全文] 

		

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An asset that is transferred to a lender for the purpose of securing debt. The lender of the debt maintains possession of the pledged asset, but does not h[阅读全文] 

		

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A debt obligation where the borrower has not paid any previously agreed upon interest and principal repayments to the designated lender for an extended per[阅读全文] 

		

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A fixed-income index that focuses on asset-backed securities. The Lehman Brothers Asset-Backed Securities Index serves as the performance benchmark for man[阅读全文] 

		

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A financial security backed by a loan, lease or receivables against assets other than real estate and mortgage-backed securities. For investors, asset-back[阅读全文] 

		

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A short-term investment vehicle with a maturity that is typically between 90 and 180 days. The security itself is typically issued by a bank or other finan[阅读全文] 

		

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An option on a convertible bond that is used to separate a convertible bond into its two components: 1) a bond and 2) an option to acquire stock. When the [阅读全文]