- Industry: Financial services
- Number of terms: 73910
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A company contributes to a trust fund that buys stock on behalf of employees.
Industry:Financial services
A plan usually linked to a Corporation's payroll deduction system allowing employees to purchase shares at a discount from current market value.
Industry:Financial services
The amount, if any, a company contributes on an employee's behalf to the employee's retirement account, usually tied to the employee's own contribution.
Industry:Financial services
The percentage of the labor force that is employed. The employment rate is one of the economic indicators that economists examine to help understand the state of the economy. See also: Unemployment rate.
Industry:Financial services
Securities and Exchange Commission rule that allows only the bidder of a tender offer to trade in the stock while possessing inside information.
Industry:Financial services
A property owned by one party on which a second party reserves the right to make a valid claim, e.g., a bank's holding of a home mortgage encumbers property.
Industry:Financial services
Treating cash flows as if they occur at the end of a year as opposed to the date convention. Under the end-of-year convention, the present is time 0, the end of year 1 occurs one year hence; and so on.
Industry:Financial services
Describes factors within the control of the firm, such as a decision to reveal information about price or input costs. Converse of exogenous.
Industry:Financial services
A value determined within the context of a model. Related: Exogenous variable.
Industry:Financial services
Transferring asset ownership by signing the back of the asset's certificate.
Industry:Financial services
