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Hedge Fund

DefinitionA hedge fund is an investment fund that pools capital from accredited individuals or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often...

Management Tenure

What is 'Management Tenure' The length of time that a manager(s) has been at the helm of a mutual fund. A long-term...

Value Investing

DefinitionValue investing is an investment paradigm which generally involves buying securities that appear underpriced by some form of fundamental analysis, though it has taken...

Call

What is a 'Call' A call auction is sometimes referred to a call market; it's a time on an exchange when buyers...

Facility

What is a 'Facility' A facility is a formal financial assistance program offered by a lending institution to help a company that...

Heavy

What is 'Heavy' A market that is demonstrating difficulty in advancing and is displaying a tendency to decline. A heavy market may...

Japanese Housewives

What is 'Japanese Housewives' Japanese housewives, in the foreign exchange world, is a collective term for the legions of Japanese matriarchs who...

Joint Float

What is 'Joint Float' Two or more countries agreeing to keep their currencies at a same exchange rate relative to one another,...

James M. Buchanan Jr.

DefinitionJames McGill Buchanan Jr. was an American economist known for his work on public choice theory, for which he received the Nobel Memorial Prize...

James H. Clark

DefinitionJames Henry Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications...

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