- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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A dividend declared by the directors of a corporation that has not yet been paid.
Industry:Financial services
An independent auditor's opinion that a company's financial statements comply with accepted accounting procedures. Antithesis of qualified opinion.
Industry:Financial services
An increase/decrease in the value of a security that is not "real" because the security has not been sold. Once a security is sold by the portfolio manager, the capital gains/losses are "realized" by the fund, and any payment to the shareholder is taxable during the tax year in which the security is sold.
Industry:Financial services
A measure of risk based on the standard deviation of the asset return. Volatility is a variable that appears in option pricing formulas, where it denotes the volatility of the underlying asset return from now to the expiration of the option. There are volatility indexes. Such as a scale of 1-9; a higher rating means higher risk.
Industry:Financial services
A pension plan supported partially by the employee by pension contributions deducted from each paycheck.
Industry:Financial services
Debt obligations of the US Treasury that have maturities of 10 years or more.
Industry:Financial services
Debt obligations of the US Treasury that have maturities of more than 2 years but less than 10 years.
Industry:Financial services
Characteristic that taxes do not interfere with the natural flow of capital toward its most productive use.
Industry:Financial services
Securities issued by the US Department of the Treasury.
Industry:Financial services
Devising strategies throughout the year in order to minimize tax liability, for example, by choosing a tax filing status that is most beneficial to the taxpayer.
Industry:Financial services
