- Branche: Financial services
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To convey information through a firm's actions. The more costly it is to provide a signal, the more credibility it has. For example, to call a press conference and tell everyone that the firm's prospects have improved is less effective than saying the same thing and raising the dividend.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage return over the T-year period an investment is held.
Industry:Financial services
Notion that insiders in a firm have information that the market does not have, and that the choice of capital structure by insiders can signal information to outsiders and change the value of the firm. This theory is also called the asymmetric information approach.
Industry:Financial services
A letter designation assigned to securities and mutual funds that trade on US financial exchanges.
Industry:Financial services
The settlement date for securities transactions such as a stock sale. It refers to the obligation in the brokerage business to settle securities trades by the third day following the trade date. The settlement occurs when the seller receives the sales price (the broker's commission) and the buyer receives the shares.
Industry:Financial services
In an indexing strategy, the standard deviation of the difference between the performance of the benchmark and the replicating portfolio.
Industry:Financial services
Seasonal rise in stock prices in the last week of the calendar year, between Christmas and New Year's Day.
Industry:Financial services
