- Industry: Financial services
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Short-term investment usually of less than one year.
Industry:Financial services
A call for additional money or securities when a margin account falls below its exchange-mandated required level.
Industry:Financial services
A bond quotation convention based on a 360-day year and semiannual coupons. See: Bond equivalent yield.
Industry:Financial services
A yearly charge to maintain brokerage accounts, such as asset management accounts or IRAs.
Industry:Financial services
A defined benefit contribution plan in which the participant contributes some part and the firm contributes at the same or a different rate. Also called an individual account plan.
Industry:Financial services
The dollar amount required to be kept at the OCC throughout the life of an option contract; percentage of the dollar amount of securities that must always be kept as margin.
Industry:Financial services
A financial instrument backed by a deposit at a certain firm such as a bank that can be easily converted into cash.
Industry:Financial services
A sum, usually smaller than but part of the original margin, that must be maintained on deposit at all times. If a customer's equity in any futures position drops to or below, the maintenance margin level, the broker must issue a margin call for the amount at money required to restore the customer's equity in the account to the original margin level. Related: Margin, margin call.
Industry:Financial services
Annual money return as a percentage of asset value.
Industry:Financial services
