Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• ACTIVE PARTICIPATION - Just what it sounds like: taking an active role in the management of an enterpri...
  
  
• ACTIVE PORTFOLIO STRATEGY - A strategy that uses available information and forecasting techniques to se...
  
  
• ACTIVE RETURN - Return relative to a benchmark. If a portfolio's return is 5%, and the benchmark's retu...
  
  
• ACTIVE RISK - The risk (annualized standard deviation) of the active return. Also called the tracking e...
  
  
• ACTIVE TRANCHE - A REMIC tranche that is currently paying principal payments to its owners.
  
  
• ACTIVELY MANAGED FUND - Managers of actively managed mutual funds buy and sell investments to achieve a...
  
  
• ACTIVELY MANAGED MUTUAL FUND - A type of mutual fund where a portfolio manager makes day-to-day decisio...
  
  
• ACTIVITY - The type of work performed by an organization in carrying out the program for which it is re...
  
  
• ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC) - a costing system that identifies the various activities performed in a f...
  
  
• ACTIVITY BASED MANAGEMENT (ABM) - converts Activity Based Costing (ABC) into a system to manage an orga...