Home > Industry/Domain > Financial services
Financial services
Related to any service provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of organisations that deal with the management of money.
17Categories 144162Terms
Add a new termContributors in Financial services
Financial services > Finance 
capital market theory assumption 1
Financial services; Finance
The first assumption of capital market theory is that all investors invest efficiently. This means that investors will remain in the investing frontier and will make choices that ...
measures of risk
Financial services; Finance
Risk cannot really be defined by a fixed definition or formula but one can certainly calculate it to get a good idea about its implications. One way to do it is by calculating the ...
dollar return
Financial services; Finance
Dollar return is a sum of return that investors gets from dividends and from capital gain which is influenced by the change in market value of an asset or an investment. It is ...
standard deviation of return
Financial services; Finance
Standard deviation is a tool that is used to determine how volatile an investment is. Some analysts also call it historical volatility since it predicts future volatility by ...
variance of return
Financial services; Finance
When standard deviation is squared, it gives the figure of variance. Variance of return can calculated by determining probability-weighted average of squared deviations from the ...
risk premium
Financial services; Finance
Risk premium is basically the excess that an investor earns over the risk free rate by investing in a risky asset or stock. It is considered as a reward for the investor who is ...
average return
Financial services; Finance
Average return basically tells how much an investor has earned on his investment on average in a certain year over a certain period. It is calculated by dividing total return on ...
Sub-categories
- Accountancy (8687)
- Auto loans (1770)
- Commodity exchange (23356)
- Credit rating agencies (109)
- Currency exchange (230)
- Finance (3291)
- Financial instruments (69)
- Funds (10404)
- General Finance (78813)
- Home equity (244)
- Personal investment management (123)
- Private equity (6853)
- Real estate investment (2009)
- Securities brokerage (352)
- Stocks & securities (3732)
- Venture capital (2409)
- World currencies (1807)