Leverage Ratios
March 6th, 2014
Financial leverage ratios provide an indication of the long-term solvency of the firm. Unlike liquidity ratios that are concerned with short-term assets and liabilities, financial leverage ratios measure the extent to which the firm is using long term debt. ...
Asset Turnover Ratios or Efficiency Ratios
March 6th, 2014
Asset turnover ratios indicate how efficiently the firm utilizes its assets as well as how well it manages its liabilities. They are sometimes referred to as efficiency ratios, asset utilization ratios, or asset management ratios. Three commonly used asset ...
Profitability Ratios
March 6th, 2014
How well is the business performing over a specific period, will the firm have the financial resources to continue serving its constituents tomorrow as well as today? Profitability ratios offer several different measures of the success of the firm ...
Liquidity Ratios
March 6th, 2014
Does your firm have enough cash on an ongoing basis to meet its operational obligations? This is an important indication of financial health. Liquidity ratios provide information about a firm’s ability to meet its short-term financial obligations. They are ...
Financial ratio
March 6th, 2014
A financial ratio can be defined as a comparative magnitude of two selected statistical values taken from the financial statements of a business enterprise. Being used in accounting very often, numerous standard ratios are used for evaluation of the ...
Repo (Repurchase agreement)
March 6th, 2014
Repo is an agreement in which one party sells a security to another party and agrees to repurchase it on a specified date for a specified price. In other words it is an agreement with a commitment by the ...
Hedge Funds
March 6th, 2014
A Hedge fund, usually used by wealthy individuals and institutions, is allowed to use aggressive strategies that are unavailable to mutual funds, including short selling, leverage, swaps, arbitrage, and derivatives. Hedge funds are exempt from many of the rules ...
UCITS – (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities)
March 6th, 2014
UCITS are open-ended undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities. (UCITS) is an undertaking the sole object of which is the collective investment in transferable securities and/or in other liquid financial assets of capital raised from the public, and ...
Mutual Funds
March 6th, 2014
An open-ended fund operated by an investment company which raises money from shareholders and invests in a group of assets, in accordance with a stated set of objectives. Mutual funds raise money by selling shares of the fund to ...
Structure products
March 6th, 2014
Structured products are synthetic investment instruments specially created to meet specific needs that cannot be met from the standardized financial instruments available in the markets. Structured products can be used: as an alternative to a direct investment; as part ...
