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Face Time

In the sphere of investment banking, it describes the period when staff have to hang around the office just because their...

Efficient Frontier

A continuum of portfolios that generate the highest expected returns for their given levels of risk (standard deviation) plotted in combinations of expected return and standard...

Bandwidth

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

Organizational Meeting

The meeting of all members of an IPO team that takes place usually six to eight weeks before a company...

Combined Offering

An initial public offering (IPO) in which the issued securities are predominately a combination of primary and secondary shares. The offering consists...

Split Offering

An initial public offering (IPO) in which the issued securities are predominately a combination of primary and secondary shares. The offering consists...

Tag Along

A type of shareholding rights whereby a minority shareholder is protected when a majority shareholder sells his/its stake. The minority...

Fire Drill

An emergency that arises when an analyst is required to finish some analytical tasks related to investment banking processes under...

Acres of Diamonds

An investment thesis that maintains that seeking to earn higher returns by holding global portfolios bears no fruits and is...

Best Effort

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