Funding Ratio A ratio that represents the relation between the assets and liabilities of a pension plan. … [Read more...]
Funding Risk
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Funding Risk Refer: interest rate risk. Risk that may arise because of the adverse impact on project costs due to lack of funds or increasing cost of funds. … [Read more...]
Funds Available For Distribution – FAD
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Funds Available For Distribution - FAD Informal evaluation of capital on hand available for making payouts to shareholders. A term commonly used with real estate investment trust (REIT). … [Read more...]
Funds from Operations (FFO)
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Funds from Operations (FFO) Terminology common with real estate investment trusts to describe a cash flow arising from trust operations. Calculated as earnings to which amortization and depreciation are added. Funds Available for Distribution (FAD) is another similar commonly used … [Read more...]
Future/ Futures
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Future/ Futures Signifies a contract that covers sale of financial instruments or commodities through a commodity exchange where the actual goods or instruments will be delivered in future. … [Read more...]
Future Investment Opportunities
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Future Investment Opportunities The opportunity to make a profitable investment in the future that comes about as a consequence of a present time opportunity. … [Read more...]
Future Value
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Future Value A sum of money that at a given future date is equal in value to a specified amount of money at present time. … [Read more...]
Future Bundle
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Future Bundle Futures order that allows investors to buy predetermined number of futures contracts for two or more years in every succeeding quarterly delivery month. Used to hedge price fluctuation risk. … [Read more...]
Futures Commission Merchant
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Futures Commission Merchant Refer: omnibus account, commission house. Agency or individual undertaking and processing orders for the sale or purchase of futures contracts. He/ It also accepts funds or securities that may be used to margin the resultant trades. All these activities … [Read more...]
Futures Option
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Futures Option Refer: options on physicals. Options that exist on futures contracts. … [Read more...]
Futures Contract
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Futures Contract Formal understanding to purchase or sell a predetermined quantity of specific stock at a given future date. The price at which the trade will take place is also determined in advance by seller and buyer. Such contracts can be bought or sold in futures markets. This … [Read more...]
Futures Market
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Futures Market The market where contracts specifying terms for delivering commodities or securities in the future can be traded. … [Read more...]
Futures Price
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Futures Price The agreed price at which the two parties transacting a futures contract will carry out at a future date the trade specified in the contract. … [Read more...]
Futures Spread
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Futures Spread Arbitrage technique wherein the trader purchases a commodity and sells the same commodity in a different transaction or contract to gain from a difference in prices. … [Read more...]
