General Finance

General Finance

Industry: Financial services

Add a new term

Contributors in General Finance

Become a Contributors

General Finance

Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)

Financial services; General Finance

Expected return on a portfolio of all a firm's securities. Used as a hurdle rate for capital investment. Often the weighted average of the cost of equity and the cost of debt The weights are ...

weighted average coupon

Financial services; General Finance

The weighted average of the gross interest rates of mortgages underlying a pool as of the pool issue date; the balance of each mortgage is used as the weighting factor.

The weighted average maturity of an MBS is the weighted average of the remaining terms to maturity of the mortgages underlying the collateral pool at the date issue, using as the weighting factor the ...

weighted average

Financial services; General Finance

The weighted average of the yield of all the bonds in a portfolio.

weighted

Financial services; General Finance

The average remaining term of the mortgages underlying a MBS.

well-diversified portfolio

Financial services; General Finance

A portfolio that includes a variety of securities so that the weight of any security is small. The risk of a well-diversified portfolio closely approximates the systematic risk of the overall market, ...