- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
- Number of blossaries: 1
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World's leading financial information-service, news, and media company.
A source of competitive advantage that depends on differences in the tax rates imposed in different locations.
Industry:Financial services
The comparison of the successive values of each ratio for a single firm over a number of years.
Industry:Financial services
Legislation aimed at tightening provisions relating to taxation, including changes in the capital gains tax laws.
Industry:Financial services
A technical chart line that depicts the past movement of a security and that is used in an attempt to help predict future price movements.
Industry:Financial services
Legislation enacted as part of the Deficit Reduction Act of 1984 to reduce the federal budget deficit. Among its provisions are a decrease in the minimum holding period for assets to qualify for long-term capital gains treatment from one year to six months.
Industry:Financial services
A measure of the excess return per unit of risk, where excess return is defined as the difference between the portfolio's return and the risk-free rate of return over the same evaluation period and where the unit of risk is the portfolio's beta. Named after Jack Treynor.
Industry:Financial services
A 1986 law involving a major overhaul of the US tax code.
Industry:Financial services
A large venture capital fund (over one billion dollars). Such funds are known for imposing strong discipline on the firms they fund.
Industry:Financial services
Striking offsetting deals among three markets simultaneously to obtain an arbitrage profit.
Industry:Financial services
