- Industry: Financial services
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The amount of cash at a specified date in the future that is equivalent in value to a specified sum today.
Industry:Financial services
Contracts in which an insurance company or issuing financial institution pays a fixed dollar amount of money per period.
Industry:Financial services
A system which mathematically models complex relationships which are usually handled in a vague manner by language. Under the title of "Fuzzy Logic" falls formal fuzzy logic (a multi-valued form of logic), and fuzzy sets. Fuzzy sets measure the similarity between an object and a group of objects. A member of a fuzzy set can belong to both the set, and its compliment. Fuzzy sets can more closely approximate human reasoning than traditional "crisp" sets. See: Crisp sets.
Industry:Financial services
Payments to a beneficiary that are paid in fixed preset amounts and are not variable.
Industry:Financial services
A measure of a firm's ability to meet its fixed-charge obligations: the ratio of (net earnings before taxes plus interest charges paid plus long-term lease payments) to (interest charges paid plus long-term lease payments).
Industry:Financial services
A cost that is fixed in total for a given period of time and for given production levels.
Industry:Financial services
In the Euromarket, the standard periods for which Euros are traded (one month out to a year out) are referred to as the fixed dates.
Industry:Financial services
Conventional bonds for which the coupon rate is set at a fixed percentage of the par value.
Industry:Financial services
A nonnegotiable debt security that can be redeemed at some fixed price or according to some schedule of fixed values, e.g., bank deposits and government savings bonds.
Industry:Financial services
