Portfolio Insurance Technique by which portfolio is protected from vagaries of market by creating and using an artificial put option. This ensures that the portfolio value is insulated from declining beyond a specific limit. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Internal Rate of Return
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Portfolio Internal Rate of Return Computation of rate of return by initially calculating cash flow for bonds, then computing the rate of interest that equates present value of cash flow to the portfolio’s market value. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Margin
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Portfolio Margin Margin requirements to be maintained with derivatives accounts where future and options are traded with. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Opportunity Set
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Portfolio Opportunity Set Based on a specific asset group, the number of portfolios that can be created with different asset combinations to give different returns and risk levels. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Management
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Portfolio Management Refer: Investment management. Professional management of investment portfolio encompassing creating and managing combinations of various securities and assets with the goal of achieving specific returns. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Manager
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Portfolio Manager Refer: Investment manager. Individual responsible for making decisions pertaining to managing various assets and securities in a portfolio to achieve investment goals. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Separation Theorem
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Portfolio Separation Theorem Refer: Fisher's separation theorem. Theory stating that investors may have an attitude towards risk that is distinct and different from the choices they make in selecting risky assets for their portfolio. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Turnover Rate
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Portfolio Turnover Rate Annualized rate of return measuring the magnitude of change in the assets making up a portfolio. Calculated by viewing trading volume as compared to the total portfolio. … [Read more...]
Position
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Position Buy or sell transaction that commits a trader to a specific asset with no opposing or balancing transaction to offset it. Buyers of assets, commodities have a long position while a short position is created by a sale. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Weight
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Portfolio Weight Weightage or share of a single holding in the portfolio expressed in percentage terms. … [Read more...]
Portfolio Variance
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Portfolio Variance Signifies the volatility in portfolio. Measures variance and covariance against the security’s weightage in the portfolio. … [Read more...]
Position Diagram
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Position Diagram Pictorial representation of possible earnings a derivative may give. … [Read more...]
Positive Carry
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Positive Carry Also refer: net financing cost. Net income at present from a position on an investment calculated by adjusting current income from it with its cost of carry. … [Read more...]
Positive Convexity
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Positive Convexity Characteristic of option free debt security like a bond that its price increases greatly when interest rates rise but does not fall to the same degree when interest rates fall. … [Read more...]
Positive Covenant of a Bond
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Positive Covenant of a Bond Also termed as affirmative covenant. This covenant stipulates specific actions that a firm must implement. … [Read more...]
Positive Pay
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Positive Pay Method to curb fraud with check payment. Banks use this system to correlate checks presented for payment with those issued by company. … [Read more...]
Possessions Corporation
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Possessions Corporation U.S. corporation that is active in American possession overseas. These corporations can avail of a tax benefit for the dealings carried out in possessions, similar to the tax credits a foreign subsidiary can avail of. … [Read more...]
Post
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Post Location in the stock exchange where the listed stocks can be traded in. … [Read more...]
Post-Audit
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Post-Audit Procedure for measuring effectiveness of a decision taken relating to capital budgeting. … [Read more...]
