Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• INFLATION PROTECTION - Increases in benefits built into a policy to compensate for inflation.
  
  
• INFLATION RISK - Also called purchasing power risk, the risk that changes in the real return the invest...
  
  
• INFLATION UNCERTAINTY - The fact that future inflation rates are not known. It is a possible contributi...
  
  
• INFLATION-ADJUSTED RETURN - Inflation-adjusted return is what you earn on an investment after accountin...
  
  
• INFLATION-ESCALATOR CLAUSE - A clause in a contract providing for increases or decreases in inflation d...
  
  
• INFLATION-INDEXED BONDS - U. S. Government indexed bonds with inflation protection
  
  
• INFLATION-INDEXED SECURITIES - Securities such as bonds or notes that guarantee a return higher than th...
  
  
• INFLATION-INDEXED SECURITY - Bonds and notes that promise your return will be higher than the rate of i...
  
  
• INFLATION-LINKED BONDS - Inflation-Linked Bonds have coupons that depend on the rate of inflation or a ...
  
  
• INFLATIONARY EXPECTATIONS - The rate of increase in the general price level anticipated by the public i...