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Above Par |
A price quoted above the face value of a security |
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Account |
Record of your share balance and value, including all transactions kept on record with your fund family for which you receive regular confirmation statements |
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Adjustable-Rate Preferred Stock |
Floating rate preferred stock with a dividend rate reset based on an index or other prescribed formula |
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Adjustment Preferred Stock |
Preferred stock issued in connection with adjustment of claims in a re-organization, the basic feature of which is that dividends are payable if earned |
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Advance-Decline |
A reference to the breadth of the market, an investment strategy which suggests that if advances (declines) consistently out-number declines, the market is considered to be in a bullish (bearish) phase |
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Aggressive Growth Fund |
A mutual fund that seeks to maximize capital appreciation by accepting larger than ordinary risks, such as investing borrowed money to provide leverage, short selling, hedging, trading options, and warrants |
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Alien |
A person who is not a citizen of the country in which he or she resides and who is in the Philippines lawfully having the same contractual rights as citizens, such that they can be sued in the courts with respect to contractual rights. Immigration laws determine whether or not a person is an alien |
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Alpha Stocks |
Stocks that have more volatility than the general market as measured by plotted market averages |
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ASAP |
Association of Securities Analysts of the Philippines |
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Asked Price |
The price at which a security or commodity is quoted or offered for sale, as compared with bid price, the price at which it is quoted or bid for purchase |
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Assented Securities |
Securities whose owners have agreed to some change in their status, especially in case of reorganization where an assessment is made or the amount of securities is scaled according to some definite plan |
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Assign |
To send, designate, give, or transfer, as to assign property in a will |
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Assignee |
The party to whom an assignment has been executed |
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Assignment |
The transfer from one party to a contract of a right, claim, or interest under an agreement (the assignor) to a third party (assignee), the other party to the contract against whom the right, claim, or interest can be exercised is the obligor |
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Assignment in Blank |
A formal transfer of title to stock or registered bonds in which the space for the insertion of the name of the new owner is left blank, so that the name may be written in at any subsequent time. An assignment form will be found on the reverse side of certificates of stock or registered bonds |
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Assignor |
One who makes an assignment to a transferee or assignee. The assignee stands in the place of the assignor as to rights and liabilities per the assignment |
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At Market |
Instructions in a market order in which no price is specified. Such an order is to be executed at once at the best possible market price |
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At Or Better |
In connection with a brokerage buying order, to purchase at the price specified or under, in a selling order, to sell at the price specified or above |
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At Risk |
A tax concept that limits a taxpayer's loss deductions to the amount of one's capital investment |
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At The Opening |
In reference to an order placed with a broker specifying execution at the opening transaction of the particular security involved when no price limit is specified |
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At The Money |
The situation in which the market price or rate of the underlying and the strike price or rate of an at-the-money option are equal
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Authorization |
The formal approval of an act or action |
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Authorization of Stock |
Provision in a corporate charter that gives the state's permission for the corporation to issue and sell a certain number of shares of stock |
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Authorized Capital Stock |
The amount of capital stock that a corporation is authorized to issue according to its charter or certificate of incorporation, the difference between the authorized stock and the unissued amount would include the outstanding stock and any treasury stock, the latter technically being issued and reacquired by the corporation but not cancelled |
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Automatic Reinvestment |
An investing procedure that provides for automatically plowing dividends back into investments |
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Average Stock Market Risk Premium |
The excepted return on all equity compared to the risk-free rate |
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