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Face Amount
1. The value of a bond, note or other security as printed on the document. Throughout the life of a ...
Face Value
1. The value of a bond, note or other security as printed on the document. Throughout the life of a ...
Face-amount Certificate
A debt security issued by face amount. The holder makes payments periodically to the issues, and the...
Facilitation
The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offers made for ...
Factor
A financial institution that buys a firm's accounts receivable and collects the accounts....
Factor Analysis
A statistical procedure that seeks to explain a certain phenomenon, such as the return on a common s...
Factor Model
A way of decomposing the forces that influence a security's rate of return into common and firm-spec...
Factor Portfolio
A well-diversified portfolio constructed to have a beta of 1.0 on one factor and a beta of zero on a...
Factor Return
The return attributable to a particular common factor. We decompose asset returns into a common fact...
Factoring
A company which is owed money by trade debtors faces the risk of slow payment or default on those de...
Fail
A deal is said to fail if on the settlement date either the seller does not deliver securities in pr...
Fair Market Price
Amount at which an asset would change hands between two parties, that both have knowledge of the rel...
Fair Price
The equilibrium price for futures contracts. Also called the theoretical futures price, which equals...
Fair Rate Of Return
The rate of return that state governments allow a public utility to earn on its investments and expe...
Fair Value
The theoretical price at which a futures contract should trade to be equivalent to the purchase pric...
Fair-and-equitable Test
A set of requirements for a plan of reorganisation to be approved by the bankruptcy court....
Fairness Opinion
An investment banker's professional opinion as to the price an acquiring firm's is offering in a tak...
Fall Down
In the context of general equities, may not be able to produce as indicated in one's advertised mark...
Fall Out Of Bed
A sudden drop in a stock's price resulting from failed or poor business deals gone bad or falling th...
Fallen Angel
A bond which was issued at a rating of AAA to BBB (investment grade) which has since fallen in ratin...
Fallout Risk
A type of mortgage pipeline risk that is generally created when the terms of the loan to be originat...
Fama, Eugene F.
Finance professor at the University of Chicago. Developer of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis....
Family Income Benefit
A type of term assurance in which, following the death of the life assured, instalments, rather than...
Family Of Funds
Different mutual funds offered by one investment company....
