- Industry: Financial services
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A type of bond for which a firm other than the issuer guarantees its interest and principal payments.
Industry:Financial services
Bonds that at the time of issue were considered investment grade but that have dropped below that rating over time.
Industry:Financial services
Central governments of foreign countries, including all departments and agencies of national governments; central banks, exchange authorities, and all fiscal agents of foreign national governments that undertake activities similar to those of a treasury, central bank, or stabilization fund; diplomatic and consular establishments of foreign national governments; and any international or regional organization, including subordinate and affiliate agencies, created by treaty or convention between sovereign states.
Industry:Financial services
A life and health insurance policy feature that enables the insured to add coverage at future times and at fixed and agreed-upon rates regardless of health conditions.
Industry:Financial services
A type of mortgage pipeline risk that is generally created when the terms of the loan to be originated are set at the same time the sale terms are established. The risk is that either of the two parties, borrower or investor, fails to close and the loan "falls out" of the pipeline.
Industry:Financial services
Part of a nation's internal market, representing the mechanisms for issuing and trading securities of entities domiciled outside that nation. Compare external market and domestic market.
Industry:Financial services
A contract promising a stated nominal interest rate over some specific time period, usually several years.
Industry:Financial services
Finance professor at the University of Chicago. Developer of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis.
Industry:Financial services
A measure of foreign market risk that is derived from the capital asset pricing model.
Industry:Financial services
A pure investment product in which a life company agrees, for a single premium, to pay at a maturity date the principal amount of a predetermined annual crediting (interest) rate over the life of the investment.
Industry:Financial services
