- Industry: Financial services
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The mean of a random sample approaches the mean (expected value) of the population as sample size increases.
Industry:Financial services
A tax provision that allows operating losses to be used as a tax shield to reduce taxable income in prior and future years. Losses can be carried backward for up to three years and forward for up to 15 years under current tax codes.
Industry:Financial services
A trade acceptance where the buyer's ability to pay is insured.
Industry:Financial services
An economic rule stating that a given security must have the same price no matter how the security is created. If the payoff of a security can be synthetically created by a package of other securities, the implication is that the price of the package and the price of the security whose payoff it replicates must be equal. If it is unequal, an arbitrage opportunity would present itself.
Industry:Financial services
The ratio of losses paid or accrued by an insurer to premiums collected over a year.
Industry:Financial services
A legal claim to some future benefit, typically a claim to future cash. Goodwill, intellectual property, patents, copyrights, and trademarks are examples of intangible assets.
Industry:Financial services
Actions that an insured person or company takes at the instigation of an insurance company in order to prevent accidents or losses.
Industry:Financial services
Variant of linear programming in which the solution values must be integers.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of general equities. Easily executed trade or order. See: Lead pipe.
Industry:Financial services
Insurance coverage that will pay out income that a policyholder loses as a result of a disability, injury, or business disruption.
Industry:Financial services
