A debt instrument (security) that gives the issuer the option to pay interest (coupon) either in cash (any form of…

An abbreviation for participating convertible preferred stock; a combination of a redeemable preferred stock with common stock. The resulting stock receives…

A type of risk that is associated with loans and loan pools (pooled loans, such as mortgage pools) in the...

A type of sinking fund bonds (sinkable bonds or sinkers) in which an equal percentage of bonds are redeemed from…

A preferred stock that has no redemption date. In other words, this fixed-rate equity instrument allows the holder no participation…

A firm that has only one business line or product, and its value (or value of its stocks) solely depends…

A warrant that a company writes on its own common stock, giving the buyer/holder the right to sell the company’s…

A type of dividend (profit distribution) whereby a company distributes physical goods to its shareholders, instead of cash or securities.…

An investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to original “investors” (the scheme organizers) or early entrants from...

A security (a mortgage-backed security, MBS) that is created from pooling mortgages (mortgage loans, as underlying) and sells shares or...