List of finance topics
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Topics in finance include:
[edit] Fundamental financial concepts
- Finance an overview
- Arbitrage
- Capital (economics)
- Capital asset pricing model
- Cash flow
- Cash flow matching
- Debt
- Discounted cash flow
- Financial capital
- Financial modeling
- Entrepreneur
- Fixed income analysis
- Gap financing
- Hedge
- Interest rate
- Short rate model
- Interest
- Investment
- Leverage
- Locked-in value
- Long (finance)
- Liquidity
- Margin (finance)
- Mark to future
- Mark to market
- Market Impact
- Medium of exchange
- Microcredit
- Money
- Portfolio
- Reference rate
- Return
- Right-financing
- Risk
- Scenario analysis
- Short (finance)
- Speculation
- Position trader
- Spread
- Standard of deferred payment
- Store of value
- Time horizon
- Time value of money
- Unit of account
- Volatility
- Yield
- Yield curve
[edit] Accounting (financial records)
- Accounting
- List of accounting topics
- Financial accountancy
- Auditing
- Management accounting
- Accounting software
[edit] Actuarial topics
[edit] Institutional setting
[edit] Financial services companies
- Bank
- Bank holding company
- Building society
- Clearing house
- Commercial lender
- Community development financial institution
- Credit rating agency
- Credit union
- Diversified financial
- Edge Act Corporation
- Export Credit Agencies
- Financial adviser
- Financial intermediary
- Financial planner
- Futures exchange
- Government sponsored enterprise
- Hard money lender
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Industrial loan company
- Insurance regulatory
- Insurance company
- Investment adviser
- Investment company
- Investment trust
- Large and Complex Financial Institutions
- Mutual fund
- Non-banking financial company
- Prime brokerage
- Retail broker
- Savings and loan association
- Stock broker
- Stock exchange
- Trust company
[edit] Banking terms
[edit] Financial regulation
[edit] Designations and accreditation
- Certified Financial Planner
- Chartered Financial Analyst
- Chartered Financial Consultant
- Canadian Securities Institute
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Financial Risk Manager
- Chartered Accountant
[edit] Fraud
[edit] Industry bodies
[edit] Regulatory bodies
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] European Union
[edit] United States
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission (U.S.)
- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (US)
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (US)
- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
[edit] United States legislation
- Glass-Steagall Act (US)
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (US)
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act (US)
- Securities Act of 1933 (US)
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (US)
- Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (US)
- USA PATRIOT Act
[edit] Financial markets
[edit] Market and instruments
- Capital markets
- Securities
- Financial markets
- Primary market
- Initial public offering
- Aftermarket
- Free market
- Bull market
- Bear market
- Bear market rally
- Market maker
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Nasdaq
- List of stock exchanges
- List of stock market indices
- List of corporations by market capitalization
[edit] Equity market
- Stock market
- Stock
- Common stock
- Preferred stock
- Treasury stock
- Equity investment
- Index investing
- Private Equity
- Financial reports and statements
- Fundamental analysis
- Dividend
- Dividend yield
- Stock split
[edit] Equity valuation
- Dow Theory
- Elliott Wave Theory
- Economic value added
- Gordon model
- Growth stock
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Leveraged buyout
- Takeover
- Corporate raid
- PE ratio
- Market capitalization
- Income per share
- Stock valuation
- Technical analysis
- Chart patterns
- V-trend
[edit] Investment theory
- Behavioral finance
- Dead cat bounce
- Efficient market hypothesis
- Market microstructure
- Stock market crash
- Stock market bubble
- January effect
- Mark Twain effect
- Quantitative behavioral finance
- Quantitative analyst
- Statistical arbitrage
[edit] Bond market
- Bond (finance)
- Zero coupon bond
- Junk bonds
- Convertible bond
- Accrual bond
- Municipal bond
- Sovereign bond
- Bond valuation
- Fixed income
[edit] Money market
- Repurchase agreement
- International Money Market
- Currency
- Exchange rate
- International currency codes
- Table of historical exchange rates
[edit] Commodity market
- Commodity
- Asset
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Day trading
- Drawdowns
- Forfaiting
- Fundamental analysis
- Futures contract
- Fungibility
- Gold as an investment
- Hedging
- Jesse Lauriston Livermore
- List of traded commodities
- MACD
- Ownership equity
- Position trader
- Risk (Futures)
- Seasonal traders
- Seasonal spread trading
- Slippage
- Speculation
- Spread
- Technical analysis
- Trade
- Trend
[edit] Derivatives market
- Derivative (finance)
- (see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
- Underlying instrument
[edit] Forward markets and contracts
[edit] Futures markets and contracts
[edit] Option markets and contracts
- Options
- Stock option
- Warrants
- Foreign exchange option
- Interest rate options
- Bond options
- Real options
- Options on futures
[edit] Swap markets and contracts
- see: w:Swap (finance)
[edit] Derivative markets by underlyings
[edit] Equity derivatives
- Accelerated Market Participation Securities (AMPS)
- Accelerated Return Equity Securities (ARES)
- Asset Return Obligation Securities (ASTROS)
- Automatic Common Exchange Securities (ACES)
- Basket Adjusting Structured Equity Securities (BASES)
- Basket Opportunity Exchangeable Securities (BOXES)
- Bifurcated Option Note Unit Securities (BONUSES)
- Broad Index Guarded Equity-Linked Securities (BRIDGES)
- Canadian Originated Preferred Securities (COPrS)
- Closed-end fund
- Commodity-Indexed Preferred Securities (ComPS)
- Common-Linked Higher Income Participation Securities (CHIPS)
- Common stock
- Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODES)
- Corporate-Backed Trust Securities (CorTS)
- Corporate Obligation Basket Listed Trust Securities (COBALTS)
- Currency Protected Notes (CPNS), (SPNS)
- Currency Protected Securities (CPS)
- Customized Upside Basket Securities (CUBS)
- Debt Exchangeable for Common Stock (DECS)
- Equity Growth Long-Term Strategy (EGLS)
- Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (ELKS)
- Enhanced Income Securities (EISs)
- Enhanced Stock Index Growth Notes (E-SIGNS)
- Equity Providing Preferred Income Convertible Securities (EPPICS)
- Exchange Preferred Income Cumulative Shares (EPICS)
- Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
- Exchangeable Capital Units (ExCaps)
- Foreign Currency Return Notes (FORENS)
- Global Bond Linked Securities (GLOBELS)
- Hybrid Income Securities Units (HITS)
- Income Deposit Securities (IDS)
- Inverse exchange-traded fund
- Leading Stockmarket Return Securities (LASERS)
- Leveraged Upside Indexed Accelerated Return Securities (LUNARS)
- Liquid Yield Option Notes (Zero Cupon) (LYONS)
- Mandatorily Exchangeable Debt Securities MEDS)
- Mandatory Adjustable Redeemable Convertible Securities (MARCS)
- Market Index Target Term Securities (MITTS)
- Market Participation Securities (MPS)
- Medium Term Equity Related Investment Securities (MERITS)
- Monthly Income Debt Securities (MIDS)
- Monthly Income Preferred Securities (MIPS)
- Participating Index Notes (PINS)
- Performance Equity-Linked Redemption Quarterly Pay Securities (PERQS)
- Performance Equity-Return Linked Securities (PERKS)
- Performance Leveraged Upside Securities (PLUS)
- Principal Accruing Enhanced Return Securities (PACERS)
- Preferred Equity Redemption Cumulative Stock (PERCS)
- Preferred Income Equity Redeemable Shares (PIERS)
- Preferred Redeemable Increased Dividend Equity Securities (PRIDES)
- Preferred stock
- Premium Equity Participating Securities (PEPS)
- Premium Income Equity Securities (PIES)
- Protected Exchangeable Equity-Linked Securities (PEEQS)
- Protected Growth Securities (ProGroS)
- Protected Performance Equity Linked Securities (PROPELS)
- Public Credit & Repackaged Securities (PCARS)
- Public Income Notes (PINES)
- Putable Automatic Rate Reset Securities (PARRS)
- Quarterly Income Capital Securities (QUICS)
- Quarterly Income Debt Securities (QUIDS)
- Quarterly Income Preferred Securities (QUIPS)
- Quarterly Interest Bond (QUIB)
- Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
- Reset Put Securities (REPS)
- Return Enhanced Convertible Securities (RECONS)
- Rights
- Risk Adjusting Equity Range Securities (RANGERS)
- Secure Principal Energy Receipts (SPERS)
- Select Equity Indexed Notes (SEQUINS)
- Senior Quarterly Income Debt Securities (SQUIDS)
- Shared Preference Redeemable Securities (SpuRS)
- Shares of Beneficial Interest (SBI)
- Step-Up Increasing Redeemable Equity Notes (SIRENS)
- Step-Up REIT Securities (StREITs)
- Stock Appreciation Income-Linked Securities (SAILS)
- Stock market Annual Reset Term (Notes) (SMART)
- Stock Participation Accreting Redemption Quarterly-pay Securities (SPARQS)
- Stock Return Income Debt Securities (STRIDES)
- Stock Upside Note Securities (SUNS)
- Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackaging (SATURNS)
- Structured Repackaged Asset-Backed Trust Securities (STRATS)
- Structured Yield Product Exchangeable for Common Stock (STRYPES)
- Subordinated Capital Income Securities (SKIS)
- Target Return Investment Growth Securities (TRIGGERS)
- Targeted Efficient Equity Securities (TEES)
- Targeted Growth Enhanced Terms Securities (TARGETS)
- Term Convertible Securities (TECONS)
- Threshold Appreciation Price Securities (TAPS)
- Trust Automatic Common Exchange Securities (TRACES)
- Trust Certificate (TRUC)
- Trust Investment Enhanced Return Securities (TIERS)
- Trust Issued Mandatory Exchange Securities (TIMES)
- Trust Originated Preferred Securities (TOPrS)
- Trust Preferred Stock (TruPs)
- Trust Units Exchangeable for Preference Shares (TrUEPrS)
- Warrants
- Warrants & Income Redeemable Equity Securities (WIRES)
- Yield Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (YEELDS)
- Yield Enhanced Stock (YES)
[edit] Interest rate derivatives
- Financial future
- LIBOR
- Forward rate agreement
- Interest rate swap
- Interest rate cap
- Exotic interest rate option
- Interest rate swap
[edit] Credit derivatives
- Credit default swap
- Collateralized debt obligation
- Credit default option
- Total return swap
- Securitization
[edit] Valuation
[edit] Discounted cash flow valuation
- Cash flow
- Time value of money
- Bond valuation
- Equity valuation
[edit] Relative valuation
- Dividend yield
- Financial ratio
- Market-based valuation
- PE ratio
- Relative valuation
- Stock image
- Stock profile
[edit] Contingent claim valuation
- See also derivatives pricing
- Rational pricing assumptions
- Derivatives pricing
- Futures
- Options (and Real options)
- Short-rate models (used in pricing bond options, swaptions and other interest rate derivatives)
[edit] Corporate finance
- Balance sheet analysis
- Business plan
- Capital budgeting
- Corporate action
- Managerial finance
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real options
- Return on investment
- Working capital management
[edit] Investment management
- Fund management
- Visualization of Financial Implications
[edit] Personal finance
- 529 plan (college savings)
- Budget
- Coverdell Education Savings Account (Coverdell ESAs, formerly known as Education IRAs)
- Credit & Debt
- Debit card
- Direct deposit
- Employment contract
- Financial literacy
- Insurance
- Predatory lending
- Retirement plan
- Social security
- Tax advantage
- Wealth
- Personal Finance software
- Investment club
- Collective investment scheme
- Car financing
[edit] Public finance
- Central bank
- Federal Reserve
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Tax
- crowding out
- Industrial policy
- Agricultural policy
- Currency union
- Monetary reform