- Industry: Financial services
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A well-diversified portfolio constructed to have a beta of 1.0 on one factor and a beta of zero on any other factors.
Industry:Financial services
Agreement that obligates its parties to exchange given quantities of currencies at a prespecified exchange rate on a certain future date.
Industry:Financial services
The return attributable to a particular common factor. We decompose asset returns into a common factor component, based on the asset's exposures to common factors times the factor returns, and a specific return.
Industry:Financial services
Standardized and easily transferable obligation between two parties to exchange currencies at a specified rate during a specified delivery month; standardized contract on specified underlying currencies, in multiples of standard amounts. Purchased and traded on a regulated exchange on which margins are posted.
Industry:Financial services
Sale of a firm's accounts receivable to a financial institution known as a factor.
Industry:Financial services
An option that conveys the right (but not the obligation) to buy or sell a specified amount of foreign currency at a specified price within a specified time period.
Industry:Financial services
Refers to over-the-counter trading. Fill another OTC dealer's bid for or offer of stock.
Industry:Financial services
The process of restating foreign currency accounts of subsidiaries into the reporting currency of the parent company in order to prepare consolidated financial statements.
Industry:Financial services
A deal is said to fail if on the settlement date either the seller does not deliver securities in proper form or the buyer does not to deliver funds in proper form.
Industry:Financial services
