Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• BENCHMARK - Originally a benchmark was a surveyor's mark indicating a specific height above sea level. ...
  
  
• BENCHMARK ERROR - Use of an inappropriate proxy for the true market portfolio.
  
  
• BENCHMARK INTEREST RATE - Also called base interest rate, it is the minimum interest rate investors wil...
  
  
• BENCHMARK ISSUE - Also called on-the-run or current-coupon issue or bellwether issue. In the secondary ...
  
  
• BENCHMARK NOTES - Agency notes aimed at filling the partial vacuum in the Treasury note market, now tha...
  
  
• BENCHMARKING - A company's use of information about other firms in the same industry used for compariso...
  
  
• BENEATH - Used for listed equity securities. 1) Behind; 2) Lower in price.
  
  
• BENEFICIAL OWNER - As used for most purposes under the federal securities laws. A beneficial owner of s...
  
  
• BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP - Often used in risk arbitrage. Person who enjoys the benefits of ownership even t...
  
  
• BENEFICIARY - A beneficiary is the person or organization who receives assets that are held in your nam...