A US federal law designed to protect investors after the stock market crash of 1929; requires that investors receive financial and other significant information concerning securiti ...

An independent federal government agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of the securities markets, and facilitating capital formatio ...

A US federal law that governs securities transactions on the secondary market, after issue, ensuring greater financial transparency and accuracy and less fraud or manipulation; aut ...

The process of converting an illiquid asset, such as a mortgage loan, into a tradable form, such as mortgage-backed securities.

A graphical representation of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM); the SML is a linear depiction of the CAPM drawn on an axis chart, where the x-axis represents risk in terms of ...

The initial investment in a portfolio or commingled fund.

With reference to attribution:  the value the portfolio manager adds by holding individual securities or instruments within the sector in different-than-benchmark weights.

A debt financing obligation issued to a company or an individual by a bank or similar financial institution that holds legal claim to the borrower's assets above all other debt ...

The examination of how different values of an independent variable impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions; also known as “what-if analysis&rd ...

The average return earned in excess of the risk-free rate per unit of volatility or total risk; generally, the greater the value of the Sharpe ratio, the more attractive the risk-a ...