Plan for Reorganization Related to bankruptcy. Strategy for business reorganization under Chapter 11. … [Read more...]
Plan Sponsors
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Plan Sponsors Those entities that set up and manage pension plans. May include private entities, state or other government bodies carrying out the action for employees. Employee unions also carry out these activities to benefit members. It is also possible for such entities to be … [Read more...]
Planned Amortization Class CMO
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Planned Amortization Class CMO - CMO bond type that directs contributions towards a sinking fund. The redirection is carried out in line with predetermined schedules. Here principal payments are first directed to sinking fund on a priority basis before other CMO classes can lay … [Read more...]
Planned Capital Expenditure Program
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Planned Capital Expenditure Program Schedule or program of capital expenditure outlined in financial plan of a business. … [Read more...]
Planned Financing Program
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Planned Financing Program Schedule or program of long and short term funding as described in the financial plan of a business. … [Read more...]
Planning Horizon
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Planning Horizon The future projection timeline that a model can predict. … [Read more...]
Planned Obsolescence
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Planned Obsolescence Manufacturing strategy to produce goods that become obsolete within a specific time frame. Used to create recurring demand for the product. … [Read more...]
Plowback Rate
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Plowback Rate Refer: retention rate. Company’s earnings post dividend payout. Amount of earnings that re reinvested in the business. … [Read more...]
Plug
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Plug Variable to address the financial slack in the financial plan of a company. … [Read more...]
Plus
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Plus -Bid or offer price in 64ths is quoted with help of plus. Typically government bond prices are quoted in 32nds by dealers. - In mutual fund markets, pus denotes the difference between market price and NAV of the fund’s units. … [Read more...]
Point
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Point The minimum unit of change possible in price. One hundredth of one percent. Also refer: tick, minimum price fluctuation. … [Read more...]
Point and Figure Chart
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Point and Figure Chart Technical analysis tool showing only the price changes in security or derivative. Time is not taken into consideration. Accounts for only whole integer fluctuations in price levels. … [Read more...]
Poison Pill
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Poison Pill Defense mechanism for takeover allowing the shareholders of the firm-to- be- acquired the right to purchase more shares of the same firm or of the potential acquirer at a significant discount to market price prevailing then. … [Read more...]
Poison Put
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Poison Put Right of bondholders to ask for immediate repayment of the debt security when hostile merger is imminent. … [Read more...]
Poisson Distribution
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Poisson Distribution Discrete function showing the rate of occurrence of particular events when the average probability of one single event is a known factor. … [Read more...]
Policy Asset Allocation
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Policy Asset Allocation Asset allocation technique wherein investor assesses ‘normal’ long-term combination of assets that present controlled risk and good returns. … [Read more...]
Political Risk
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Political Risk Risk in investment that arises from political changes in a foreign country. Includes altered policies, tax policy changes, foreign exchange restrictions and others. Some such factors may impact investor’s potential returns from portfolio. … [Read more...]
Pool Factor
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Pool Factor A decimal calculated by dividing outstanding principal balance in a bond issue by original principal balance. Pool factors may be determined from the monthly issues of the Bond Buyer newspaper. … [Read more...]
Pooling of Interests
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Pooling of Interests Method of accounting used for reporting equity based acquisitions. The total assets of the new entity that is created after the merger are consolidated using the book value as basis rather than the market value, which is used in the purchase method. Financial … [Read more...]
Portfolio
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Portfolio A group of investments made in physical and financial assets. … [Read more...]
