(HIP)A plan enabling the normally elderly owner or owners of a property to utilise its capital value.

See: 'discretionary.

The monetary value of a fund, calculated by adding up the value of its underlying.

A company's value is sometimes measured in terms of the total funds being used to finance it..

An electronic 'stock market' service owned by Reuters which enables members to display bid and offer.

An entitlement issue, also known as an open offer, is an offer made by a quoted company to its.

The difference between a bond's face value and the lower market price.

A computerised database of some 50,000 investment firms which have been authorised to conduct.

The practice of selling shares on one day and buying them back on the next. The purpose for UK.

The rate at which a company is spending its cash reserves.

(EPIC)EPIC codes are the abbreviations given to company share quotations (e.g. the EPIC code for.

(IRS)The US agency responsible for the collection of federal taxes which include personal and corporate.

Assets which are non physical in form, that is, which cannot be seen. Examples are patents,.

(DAX)The index for the largest 30 German companies quoted on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.

A financial institution which invests large amounts of money in the stock, bond and other financial.

A measure of actual stock price changes over a specific period of time. Defined as the standard.

See 'bond.

The six big accountancy firms: KPMG, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Deloitte & Touche and.

(ITS)An electronic communications network that links nine US markets: the New York (NYSE), American.

The percentage rate at which interest is charged on a loan or paid on savings.