Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• VALUE-ADDED - A phrase generally used by advisers and managers to describe investments in underperformi...
  
  
• VALUE-ADDED TAX - Tax added onto a product during each step of production, from raw material to finishe...
  
  
• VALUE-AT-RISK MODEL (VAR) - Procedure for estimating the probability of portfolio losses exceeding some...
  
  
• VALUE-WEIGHTED INDEX - A market average such as Standard & Poor's 500 Index that takes into account the...
  
  
• VALUED CURRENCY - A currency is said to be valued by a commodity if its value is tied directly to the v...
  
  
• VAMI - A way of reporting fund performance whereby each reporting period is indexed at 100 or 1000. Hen...
  
  
• VANCOUVER STOCK EXCHANGE (VSE) - A securities and options exchange in Vancouver, British Columbia, (Can...
  
  
• VANILLA ISSUE - A security issue that has no unusual features.
  
  
• VANNA - The sensitivity of vega (also known as kappa) to a change in the underlying price. Hence, (a) ...
  
  
• VAPOR RETARDERS - Special materials used in the installation of thermal insulation to reduce the passag...