Competitive Offering Competitive bidding process to make a securities offering. … [Read more...]
Complete Portfolio
Complete Portfolio The portfolio in entirety, encompassing assets that are risk-free and high risk. … [Read more...]
Committee, AIMR Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee
Committee, AIMR Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee The Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee of the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) is responsible for interpreting, revising and updating the association’s … [Read more...]
Completion Bonding
Completion Bonding Guarantee or insurance for the successful completion of a construction contract. … [Read more...]
Completion Risk
Completion Risk Risk arising from the possibility that the project never becomes successfully operational. … [Read more...]
Complex Capital Structure
Complex Capital Structure Use of various security kinds rather than one class of common stock. A company following a complex capital structure has several varieties of common stock classes, each with different voting privileges and rates of dividend. … [Read more...]
Composition
Composition Arrangement that is voluntarily undertaken to restructure debt so as to reduce payments payable by a firm. … [Read more...]
Compound Interest
Compound Interest Payment of interest on the principal plus already earned interest. … [Read more...]
Compound Option
Compound Option Any option that allows the holder to purchase another. … [Read more...]
Compounding
Compounding Accumulation carried out forward in time for the time value of money. As an example, interest earnings of one period earn more interest over every succeeding one. … [Read more...]
Compounding Frequency
Compounding Frequency In one year the number of periods in which compounding of interest is carried out. In quarterly compounding the interest is compounded 4 times. … [Read more...]
Compounding Period
Compounding Period Extent of time that elapses before compounding of interest takes place. For instance, in the case of quarterly compounding, the time elapsed is a quarter. … [Read more...]
Comprehensive Due Diligence Investigation
Comprehensive Due Diligence Investigation Evaluation of firm’s financial abilities and business structure when it makes a securities offering to ensure that all pertinent details and future prospects are disclosed to the public by means of the prospectus. … [Read more...]
Concentration Account
Concentration Account The central account that is the recipient of funds transferred from different lockboxes at various locations. … [Read more...]
Concentration Bank
Concentration Bank Primary bank of any organization, or the bank where most transactions are conducted by the organization. Most organizations use several banks, but a significant number and quantity of dealings are done with one bank. … [Read more...]
Concentration Services
Concentration Services Transferring cash to one concentration account from various lockbox locations so as to make investments and disbursements. … [Read more...]
Concession Agreement
Concession Agreement Formal understanding that a company has with host government outlining the various rules for carrying out local business operations. … [Read more...]
Conditional Sales Contracts
Conditional Sales Contracts Contracts that have several similarities with equipment trust certificates but the lenders are usually the manufacturer of equipment or financial institution or company that has bought the conditional sales contract from the manufacturer. … [Read more...]
Confidence Indicator
Confidence Indicator Evaluates investor confidence in the economy and markets. Low confidence level is considered a sign of a bear trend by technical analysts. … [Read more...]
Confidence Level
Confidence Level Extent of assurance present that a given failure level is not crossed. … [Read more...]




