Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SPECIFIC RETURN - The part of the excess return not explained by common factors. The specific return is...
  
  
• SPECIFIC RISK - See: Unique risk
  
  
• SPECIFIC VALUATION ALLOWANCE - a reserve held against specific assets classified as loss. See general v...
  
  
• SPECIFICATION - A written document with technical directions and conditions describing the quality of m...
  
  
• SPECIFICATION CODE - see prescriptive code.
  
  
• SPECIFICATIONS - 1) Contract terms specified by the Exchange. 2) Term referring to the properties of a ...
  
  
• SPECIFIED INVESTING - Investment in individually specified properties or portfolios, or investment in c...
  
  
• SPECIFY - To set the parameters and variables of a given model.
  
  
• SPECTAIL - A dealer doing business with retail but concentrating more on acquiring and financing its ow...
  
  
• SPECTRUM - The frequency decomposition of time series data. This is used to detect periodic fluctuation...