- Industry: Financial services
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Different mutual funds offered by one investment company.
Industry:Financial services
Foreign official institutions; the corporations and agencies of foreign central governments, including development banks and institutions, and other agencies that are majority owned by the central government or its departments; and state, provincial and local governments of foreign countries and their departments and agencies.
Industry:Financial services
First issued by Freddie Mac in 1975, G.M.C.s, like PCs, represent undivided interest in specified conventional whole loans and participations previously purchased by Freddie Mac.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of option or futures to refer to the trading month of the contract that is farthest away. Antithesis of nearest month.
Industry:Financial services
A special type of corporation created by the Tax Reform Act of 1984 that is designed to provide a tax incentive for exporting U.S.-produced goods.
Industry:Financial services
An individual or trust institution appointed by a court to care for a minor or an incompetent person and his or her property.
Industry:Financial services
Used in the context of options to refer to the relative length of option contract maturities.
Industry:Financial services
A type of insurance policy that requires the insurer to renew the policy to an individual regardless of health changes. No changes may be made to an individual policyholder unless the same change is applied to all policyholders.
Industry:Financial services
U.S. accounting standard that requires US firms to translate their foreign affiliates' accounts by the temporal method; that is reporting gains and losses from currency fluctuations in current income. It was in effect between 1975 and 1981 and became the most controversial accounting standard in the US It was replaced by FASB No. 52 in 1981.
Industry:Financial services