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Boutique Investment Bank

A small investment bank that specializes in specific investment banking services and activities. It focuses in its business on particular...

Beauty Contest

The competition to be the lead manager (bookrunner) in an initial public offering (IPO). This refers to the process of...

Bookbuilding

The process of marketing shares to, and gathering orders from, institutional investors in an equity market initial public offering (IPO)....

Bake-Off

The competition to be the lead manager (bookrunner) in an initial public offering (IPO). This refers to the process of...

Big Hairy Audacious Goal

A bold mission statement designed to spur and stimulate progress and achievement such as “being the company no. 1 in...

Bedbug Letter

A notification that is sent by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to a company to call off its initial...

BHAG

It stands for big hairy audacious goal. It is a bold mission statement designed to spur and stimulate progress and...

Bandwidth

An analyst's overall or remaining capacity that can be used to carry out analytical tasks by a certain time. Usually,...

Best Effort

An underwriting agreement in which the investment bank serves as agent in selling stock on behalf of the issuer. That...

Buy Side

An informal term for the institutional investors on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In general, it refers to the...