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Thin Trading

The situation of post-reverse-merger companies or trading shells which have only limited stock trading. It is much harder that a...

Tombstone Ad

A brief announcement, usually in a newspaper, of a new initial public offering (IPO). Such security offerings are usually announced...

Trading Shell Company

A shell company whose common stock may be publicly bought and sold on an established market (organized exchange). A trading...

Profit Rate Swap

An Islamic swap that entails the exchange of a floating profit rate for a fixed profit rate, or vice versa....

Investment

In lay terms, it refers to the acquisition of an asset for the purpose of creating value over time (in...

Overinvestment

A situation that arises when a company invests (in fixed assets) more than it needs to compensate for depreciated assets....

Performance Evaluation

A portfolio evaluation approach which simultaneously deals with different levels of risk and return, rather than holding one variable constant...

Portfolio

A group of assets which are owned or controlled by an investor (individual or institutional) in order to reduce risk...

Actual Portfolio

A portfolio whose components (investments) are transacted in real markets- i.e., at real trading prices. In other words, the portfolio...

Performance Bogey

An individual number that is used as a fixed-income portfolio's target performance or desired result. Most often, bogey refers to...