- Branche: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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Economy in which prices correctly reflect all relevant information.
Industry:Financial services
Extending maturity through a swap, e.g. selling a 2-year note and buying one with a slightly longer current maturity.
Industry:Financial services
States that all relevant information is fully and immediately reflected in a security's market price, thereby assuming that an investor will obtain an equilibrium rate of return. In other words, an investor should not expect to earn an abnormal return (above the market return) through either technical analysis or fundamental analysis. Three forms of efficient market hypothesis exist: weak form (stock prices reflect all information on past prices), semistrong form (stock prices reflect all publicly available information), and strong form (stock prices reflect all relevant information including insider information).
Industry:Financial services
Principle that all assets are correctly priced by the market, and that there are no bargains.
Industry:Financial services
Funding that is not generated by a firm's operations: new borrowing or a stock issue.
Industry:Financial services
A portfolio that provides the greatest expected return for a given level of risk (i.e., standard deviation), or, equivalently, the lowest risk for a given expected return.
Industry:Financial services
Funds originating from a source outside the corporation to increase cash flow and to aid in expansion efforts, e.g., bank loan or bond offering.
Industry:Financial services
Graph representing a set of portfolios that maximize expected return at each level of portfolio risk.
Industry:Financial services
