Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SKEWED DISTRIBUTION - Probability distribution in which an unequal number of observations lie below (ne...
  
  
• SKEWNESS - Occurs when a distribution is not symmetrical about its mean. A distribution is symmetrical ...
  
  
• SKILL - The ability to accurately forecast returns. We measure skill using the information coefficient.
  
  
• SKIP - (1) to move with no forwarding address leaving a debt unpaid. (2) a person who skips.
  
  
• SKIP DAY SETTLEMENT - A phrase used to describe the agreement of a buyer and seller to exchange the sec...
  
  
• SKIP PAYMENT MORTGAGE - A feature built into some mortgages where the borrower can choose not to make t...
  
  
• SKIP PERSON - a transfer of property to a person who is in a generation below a child of the transferor...
  
  
• SKIP-DAY SETTLEMENT - Settling a trade one business day beyond what is normal.
  
  
• SKIP-PAYMENT CLAUSE - a provision of some mortgage contracts that allows the borrower to skip monthly p...
  
  
• SKIP-PAYMENT PRIVILEGE - A mortgage contract clause giving borrowers the right to skip payments if they...