Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• PROXY COMMITTEE - A group of individuals appointed by the board of directors of the companies to formal...
  
  
• PROXY COMMITTEE BALLOT - The ballot signed and submitted at the meeting by the Proxy Committee. It is t...
  
  
• PROXY CONTEST - A battle for the control of a firm in which a dissident group seeks, from the firm's ot...
  
  
• PROXY FIGHT - Often used in risk arbitrage. Technique used by an acquiring company to attempt to gain c...
  
  
• PROXY SOLICITOR - A specialist (firm) hired to gather proxy votes.
  
  
• PROXY STATEMENT - Document intended to provide shareholders with information necessary to vote in an in...
  
  
• PROXY VOTE - Vote cast by one person on behalf of another at the company's annual meeting.
  
  
• PRUDENCE - having foresight and caution along with discretion, and to not act recklessly.
  
  
• PRUDENCE CONCEPT - otherwise known as conservatism, says that whenever there are alternative procedures...
  
  
• PRUDENT MAN RULE - a fundamental principle for professional money management which serves as a basis fo...