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A specialized index of loan-only credit default swaps (CDS) covering 100 individual companies that have unsecured debt trading in the broad secondary marke[阅读全文] 

		

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An index made up of mortgage-backed securities that is used for benchmarking purposes. The Lehman Brothers MBS Index consists of fixed-rate securities, suc[阅读全文] 

		

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An unmanaged market-weighted index, comprised of government and investment grade corporate debt instruments with maturities of one year or greater. The Leh[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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An index used by bond funds as a benchmark to measure their relative performance. The index includes government securities, mortgage-backed securities, ass[阅读全文] 

		

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A security that guarantees a return higher than the rate of inflation if it is held to maturity. 



|||In other words, an inflation-indexed secu[阅读全文] 

		

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A savings certificate entitling the bearer to receive an interest rate that is indexed to inflation. The indexed certificate of deposit (indexed CD) yields[阅读全文] 

		

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A bond in which payment of income on the principal is related to a specific price index, often the Consumer Price Index. This feature provides protection t[阅读全文] 

		

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A type of structured note whose payment schedule is determined by the behavior of interest rates. 



|||Similar to the maturity of a collaterali[阅读全文] 

		

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A benchmark index for measuring the total return performance of international government bonds issued by emerging market countries that are considered sove[阅读全文] 

		

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A series of indices that track North American and emerging market credit derivative indexes. The purpose of the combined indexes is to track the performanc[阅读全文] 

		

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A zero-coupon floating rate debt instrument with an interest rate that is determined by the return performance of a specified index over a given time perio[阅读全文] 

		

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An index published by The Bond Buyer, a daily finance newspaper that covers the municipal bond market. Investors use the Bond Buyer Index to plot [阅读全文] 

		

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A confidence indicator calculated by dividing the average yield on high-grade bonds by the average yield on intermediate-grade bonds. The discrepancy betwe[阅读全文] 

		

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A zero-coupon bond with a return linked to the Australian all-ordinaries stock index. The bond has a four-year maturity and is repayable at face value, wit[阅读全文] 

		

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A series of indexes developed by Zacks Investment Research, Inc., to provide a benchmark for the lifecycle of target-date funds, with a different index for each target date. The Zacks[阅读全文]

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A list of 40 publicly traded companies chosen for their ties to rural areas. The Yonder 40 is designed to reflect the economies of non-urban areas, and includes companies that are invo[阅读全文]

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A type of mutual fund that allocates capital as a standard index, by replicating the holdings of a specified stock index, such as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index (S&P 500), except tha[阅读全文]

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A market capitalization-weighted index composed of more than 6,700 publicly-traded companies that meet the following criteria:

1. The companies are headquartered in the [阅读全文]

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An equal-weighted stock index containing 1,700 companies from the NYSE, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and over-the-counter market.

Also known as the "Value Line Inves[阅读全文]