Tag: invest
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
What is a 'Real Estate Investment Trust - REIT' A REIT is a type of security that invests in real estate through property...
Bear Market
A bear market refers to a market in which the prices of securities take a dip resulting in significant losses. It is quite difficult...
Currency Carry Trade
Currency carry trade refers to a strategy that is used by investors to sell currencies with low interest rates and purchase currencies with a...
Passive ETF
What is a Passive ETF and how does it work
A passive Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) is a type of investment fund that aims to track...
Participatory Notes
DefinitionParticipatory Notes commonly known as P-Notes or PNs are instruments issued by registered foreign institutional investors to overseas investors, who wish to invest in...
Qualifying Investment
What is 'Qualifying Investment' An investment purchased with pretax income. Money invested in a qualifying investment trust, annuity or plan is exempt...
Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor – QFII
DefinitionThe Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor program, one of the first efforts to internationalize the RMB, represents China's effort to allow, on a selective basis,...
Value Fund
What is a 'Value Fund' A value fund is a stock mutual fund that primarily holds stocks that are deemed to be...
Variable Universal Life Insurance (VUL)
What is 'Variable Universal Life Insurance - VUL' Variable universal life insurance (VUL) is a form of cash-value life insurance that offers...
Value Averaging
What is 'Value Averaging' An investing strategy that works like dollar cost averaging (DCA) in terms of steady monthly contributions, but differs...