Investments
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1. The amount of common stock held in short positions

2. The return on an investment measured as a percentage that accounts for all cash flows and capital gains or losses

3. The rate of return on a riskless investment

4. Longer-term debt obligations - often of corporations and governments - that promise to make fixed payments according to a preset schedule.

5. A symmetric - bell-shaped frequency distribution that is completely defined by its average and standard deviation.

6. A company that owns income producing real estate

7. An investment company that stands ready to buy and sell shares at any time.

8. The square root of the variance

9. Average compound rate of return earned per year over a multiyear period accounting for investment inflows and outflows

10. Simply a means of combining or pooling the funds of a large group of investors. The buy and sell decisions for the resulting pool are then made by a fund manager - who is compensated for the service provided.

11. Rule for short sale requiring that before a short sale can be executed - the last price change must be an uptick

12. An agreement made today regarding the terms of a trade that will take place later.

13. An investment company not accessible by the general public

14. Security originally sold by a business or government to raise money

15. Pledging securities as collateral against a loan

16. The return earned in an average year over a multiyear period

17. An option that gives the owner the right - but not the obligation - to sell an asset

18. Underlying asset is intangible - usually stocks - bonds - currencies - or money market instruments.

19. The minimum margin that must be present at all times in a margin account

20. Underlying asset is a real asset - typically either an agricultural product or a natural resource product

21. The extra return on a risky asset over the risk-free rate; the reward for bearing risk.

22. The portion of the value of an investment that is not borrowed

23. A brokerage account in which all transactions are made on a strictly cash basis

24. The distribution of investment funds among broad classes of assets

25. The change in stock price as a percentage of the initial stock price.