Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• AGENCY COSTS - Costs associated with monitoring management to ensure that it behaves in ways consistent...
  
  
• AGENCY COUPLED WITH AN INTEREST - An agency relationship in which the agent is given an estate or inter...
  
  
• AGENCY FUND - A fund normally used to account for assets held by a government as an agent for individua...
  
  
• AGENCY INCENTIVE ARRANGEMENT - A means of compensating the broker of a program trade using benchmark pr...
  
  
• AGENCY ISSUES - debt securities issued by agencies of the federal government or corporations chartered ...
  
  
• AGENCY PASS-THROUGHS - Mortgage pass-through securities whose principal and interest payments are guara...
  
  
• AGENCY PROBLEM - Conflicts of interest among stockholders, bondholders, and managers.
  
  
• AGENCY SECURITIES - Securities issued by federally related institutions and U.S. government-sponsored e...
  
  
• AGENCY THEORY - Theory concerning the relationship between a principal (shareholder) and an agent of th...
  
  
• AGENT - A person or institution that handles business and financial transactions between two other peop...