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Finance: What is Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)?
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What is Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)? A CMO is a mortgage bond that consists of a large number of different individual mortgages bundle...

Finance: What are Secured Bonds v Unsecured Bonds, and what is Non-Recourse Debt: Debentures (Subordinated and Senior)?
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When a bond is secured, it means it's protected, i.e. there are assets that would be forfeited if repayment is not made. When it's unsecured... it'...

Finance: What is Counterparty Risk?
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What is Counterparty Risk? Counterparty risk is the risk to either party within a transaction that the other will not or be unable to abide by the...

Finance: What are Bond Anticipation Notes, Revenue Anticipation Bonds, and Tax Anticipation Notes?
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What are Bond Anticipation Notes (BANS), Revenue Anticipation Notes (RANS), and Tax Anticipation Notes (TANS)? BANS, RANS and TANS are all short-te...

Finance: What is Liquidity?
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What is liquidity? Think: water. It's liquid. It can be squeezed into little, tiny spaces and infused into large spaces. A defining trait of liquid...

Finance: What is a Liquid Market?
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A liquid market is a market featuring high trading volumes, i.e. investors actually want to put their cash to work.

Finance: What is a Yankee Bond?
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What's a yankee bond, and does it stick a feather in its cap and call it macaroni?

Finance: What is a Country Basket (Index Fund)?
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What is a Country Basket (Index Fund)? Investing internationally can be a challenge, as foreign exchange, different accounting rules, time zones an...

Finance: What is AMBAC?
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What is AMBAC? AMBAC stands for American Municipal Bond Assurance Corporation. It provides insurance for municipalities that sell muni bonds, such...

Finance: What are credit ratings, and how are they interpreted?
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What are credit ratings and how are they interpreted? Credit ratings describe a borrower’s likelihood to pay back their debts; it’s a look at h...

Finance: What are CEOs, CFOs, and COOs?
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What are CEOs, CFOs, and COOs? The “C” level executives in a corporation are the corporate officers responsible for the management decisions an...

Finance: What is Ordinary Income v Long-Term Gain Income?
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What is ordinary income versus long-term gain income? Hit play to find out.

Finance: What is the Black Scholes Model?
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What is the Black Scholes Model? The Black Scholes Model is used to determine the price of call options. It looks at the change in stock price over...

Finance: What is tax loss selling?
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What is tax loss selling? Hit play to find out.

Finance: How Do You Judge the Performance of an Index Fund?
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How do you judge the performance of an index fund? For index funds, they're really just a reflection of the stocks and bonds they, uh... reflect. S...

Finance: What is Trading Volume?
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Trading volume is the number of shares trading back and forth at a given time.

Finance: What Does "Called Away" Mean?
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What does “Called Away” mean? Calling away means that an option has been called and exercised and the writer is now responsible for giving the...

Finance: What is the Difference Between Taxable and Untaxed Returns?
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What is the difference between taxable and untaxed returns? Not all returns and investments are taxed. Some of these can be considered nontaxable i...

Finance: What are Junior and Senior Debt?
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What's the difference between senior and junior debt? No matter the differences, we know the similarity: you don't want to be in either of them.

Finance: What Is a Real Return?
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What is real return? Real return is the actual return made from an investment after inflation is factored in. Return is expressed as a percentage c...

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