Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• 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...
  
  
• FACTORY OVERHEAD - the costs of operating a factory which cannot be assigned directly to a specific dep...
  
  
• FAD (FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR DISTRIBUTION) - Funds from operations less deductions for cash expenditures fo...
  
  
• FAD MULTIPLE - Share price of a REIT divided by its funds available for distribution