Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

# A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 

• FACILITATION - The process of providing a market for a security. Normally, this refers to bids and offe...
  
  
• FACILITY SPACE - The floor area in hospitality properties dedicated to operating departments such as re...
  
  
• FACSIMILE - An exact copy of something, such as a signature.
  
  
• FACTOR - 1. The percent of the original face of an MBS pool that remains outstanding at any given time ...
  
  
• FACTOR ANALYSIS - A statistical procedure that seeks to explain a certain phenomenon, such as the retur...
  
  
• FACTOR MODEL - A way of decomposing the forces that influence a security's rate of return into common a...
  
  
• FACTOR PORTFOLIO - A well-diversified portfolio constructed to have a beta of 1.0 on one factor and a b...
  
  
• FACTOR RETURN - The return attributable to a particular common factor. We decompose asset returns into ...
  
  
• FACTORING - (1) a method commonly used to compute the amount of interest to be refunded or credited bec...
  
  
• FACTORY OUTLET - This type of establishment sells merchandise directly from the maker to you. Prices ar...