Glossary of Terms
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- Accretion
- Accrual Bonds
- Accrued Interest
- Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM)
- Advanced Refunding
- Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)
- Amortization
- Annuity
- Asked Price
- Auction
- Auction Rate Bonds
- Average Life
- Balloon Mortgage
- Basis Point
- Bearer Bond
- Benchmark
- Bid Price
- Bill
- Blue Chip
- Bond
- Bond Equivalent Yield
- Bond Funds
- Bond Insurance
- Book Entry
- Broker
- Bull Market
- Call
- Call Premium
- Call Protection
- Capital Gain or Loss
- Capitalization
- Certificate of Deposit
- Closed-end Fund
- COFI - 11th District Cost of Funds Index
- Collateral
- Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)
- Commercial Paper
- Common Stock
- Confirmation
- Constant Prepayment Rate (CPR)
- Corporate Bond
- Corporate Bond Equivalent Yield
- Coupon or "Bearer" Bond
- Coupon Rate
- Current Yield
- CUSIP Number
- Dated Date
- Death Put Feature
- Debenture
- Debt-to-Equity Ratio
- Default
- Default Risk
- Denomination
- Derivative
- Discount
- Discount Notes
- Discount Rate
- Dividend
- Dollar Cost Averaging
- Double Exemption
- Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)
- Duration
- Estate
- Ex-dividend
- Exchange
- Extension Risk
- Extraordinary Redemption
- Face Value
- Factor
- Fail
- Federal Agency Securities
- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC)
- Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA or Fannie Mae)
- Financial Advisor
- Fixed annuity
- Fixed-Rate Bond
- Floating Rate Bond
- Floor
- Futures
- General Obligation Bond (GO)
- GNMA (Ginnie Mae)
- Government Bond
- Government-Sponsored Enterprise (GSE)
- Hedge
- High-Yield Bond
- I Bonds
- Individual Retirement Account (IRA)
- Inflation
- Inflation-Indexed Securities
- Insurance
- Interest
- Investment Grade
- Issue
- Issue Date
- Issuer
- Junk Bond
- Laddered Portfolio
- Legal Opinion
- LIBOR (London Interbank Offered Rate)
- Life Insurance
- Limit Order
- Limited Partnershiip
- Limited Tax Bond
- Liquidity
- Long
- Long-Term Debt
- Mandatory Sinking-Fund Redemption
- Margin
- Market Order
- Market Price
- Marketability
- Maturity
- Medium-Term Note
- Money Market Instruments
- Money Market Mutual Fund
- Moral Obligation Bond
- Mortgage-backed Security
- Most Active List (Most Actives)
- Municipal Bond
- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)
- Mutual Fund
- NASDAQ
- Net Asset Value (NAV)
- New Issue
- Non-Callable Bond
- Notes
- Offer Price
- Offering Price
- Official Statement
- OID - Original Issue Discount
- Option
- Optional Redemption
- Order Period
- Original Issue Discount
- Over-the-counter (OTC)
- P & I (Principal & Interest)
- Par Value
- Pass-Through Security
- Paying Agent
- Pool
- Preferred Stock
- Premium
- Prepayments
- Price
- Price-earnings Ration (P/E)
- Prime Rate
- Principal
- Private-Label Mortgage Securities
- Prospectus
- Proxy
- Put Bonds
- Rating
- Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
- Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC)
- Redemption
- Registered Bond
- Retail Bond
- Revenue Bond
- Risk
- Round Lot
- Secured Debt
- Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC)
- Security
- Settlement Date
- Short
- Short-Term Debt
- Sinking Fund
- Spread
- Standard & Poor's 500 Stock Index (S & P 500)
- Stock
- Stock Symbol
- Street Name
- STRIPS
- Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae)
- Swap
- Syndicate
- Tax-Exempt Bond
- Taxable Municipal Bond
- Taxable-Equivalent Yield
- Total Return
- Trade Date
- Treasury Bills
- Treasury Bonds
- Treasury Inflation-Indexed Securities (TIIS)
- Treasury Notes
- Trust
- Trustee
- Unit Investment Trust
- Variable Annuity
- Volatility
- When Issued (W/I)
- Yield
- Yield Curve
- Yileld to Maturity
- Zero Coupon Bond
