- Industry: Financial services
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The frequency (monthly, quarterly, semiannually, or annually) of a mutual fund's scheduled distributions of dividends or capital gains.
Industry:Financial services
A small amount of a specific stock that forms part of a larger block of stock that is sold small amount by small amount so as not to disrupt the stock's market price.
Industry:Financial services
Payments from fund or corporate cash flow. May include dividends from earnings, capital gains from sale of portfolio holdings and return of capital. Fund distributions can be made by cheque or by investing in additional shares. Funds are required to distribute capital gains (if any) to shareholders at least once per year. Some corporations offer Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRP).
Industry:Financial services
When two or more averages or indexes fail to show confirming trends.
Industry:Financial services
Dividing investment funds among a variety of securities with different risk, reward, and correlation statistics so as to minimise unsystematic risk.
Industry:Financial services
An investment vehicle such as a mutual fund that invests in an assortment of securities.
Industry:Financial services
A complete asset or investment disposal such as outright sale or liquidation.
Industry:Financial services
A portion of a company's profit paid to common and preferred shareholders. A stock selling for $20 a share with an annual dividend of $1 a share yields the investor 5%.
Industry:Financial services
The rate of return which equates the present value of future expected dividends with the current market price of a security.
Industry:Financial services
Accumulated dividends on cumulative preferred stock that are deemed payable to the current holder.
Industry:Financial services
