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Actuarial Science

Financial services; Finance

Definition: Actuarial Science is a discipline that deals with assessing the risks in insurance and finance field using various mathematical and statistical method. Description: The professionals ...

5 Forces Analysis Of The Environment

The five forces model of analysis was developed by Michael Porter to analyze the competitive environment in which a product or company works. 1. The threat of entry: competitors can enter from any ...

Ambush Marketing

Financial services; Finance

Definition: Ambush marketing, a term first coined by marketing guru Jerry Welsh, has not really been rigorously defined. However, it broadly refers to a situation in which a company or product seeks ...

Alpha

Financial services; Finance

Alpha is an estimated numeric value of a stock's expected excess return that cannot be attributed to the market's volatility, but may be due to some other security. In other words, it is the ...

Arbitrage

Financial services; Finance

Definition: Arbitrage is the profit making market activity of buying and selling of same security on different exchanges or between spot prices of a security and its future contract. Here exchange ...

Adverse Selection

Financial services; Finance

Adverse selection is a phenomenon wherein the insurer is confronted with the probability of loss due to risk not factored in at the time of sale. This occurs in the event of an asymmetrical flow of ...

Agreement Of Sale

Financial services; Finance

Definition: An agreement of sale constitutes the terms and conditions of sale of a property by the seller to the buyer. These terms and conditions include the amount at which it is to be sold and the ...