- Industry: Financial services
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Measures the volatility of a fund's historical returns. When a fund has a high standard deviation, its range of performance has been very wide, indicating greater potential for volatility. A more volatile fund will have a greater difference between its highest historical return and its lowest historical return. More volatile funds may be riskier investments.
Industry:Financial services
Fund invests in non-U.S. dollar and U.S. dollar debt instruments and, by policy, keep a dollar-weighted average maturity of less than five years.
Industry:Financial services
For participants in Self-Direct Brokerage Direct Advantage accounts: The value of the commission used in this calculation is $14 per trade. There is an additional commission of $.03/share for each share over 1000 shares that are not included in this calculation. You are only allowed to trade a dollar value that is inclusive of all fees and commissions that is not to exceed your current account balance. This commission schedule only applies to sdb Direct Advantage accounts.
Industry:Financial services
Fund invests in non-U.S. dollar debt instruments of a single country and, by policy, keep a dollar-weighted average maturity of less than five years.
Industry:Financial services
Standard & Poor's proprietary STARS (Stock Appreciation Ranking System) was designed specifically to meet the needs of aggressive investors looking mainly or exclusively for superior market performance over a 6-12 month period. To help put their investment decisions in perspective, Standard & Poor's equities analysts rank the appreciation potential of stocks in their areas of expertise in one of the following five categories:
***** Buy. Expected to be among the best performers and rise even in a falling market.
**** Accumulate. Consider buying. Expected to be an above-average performer.
*** Hold. Expected to be an average performer.
** Avoid. Consider Selling. Expected to be a below-average performer.
* Sell. Expected to be among the worst performers and fall even in a rising market.
Industry:Financial services
Security holding periods are measured from trade date to trade date. A security held one year or less is considered Short Term. Securities held for more than one year are considered Long Term. A security is considered a 5-year holding if it is held greater than 5 years. Different capital gains tax rates generally apply to each of the three holding periods.
Industry:Financial services
Your gross purchasing power, or the amounts available to spend, before any pending liabilities have been accounted for. When do we ever provide this information to a client?
Industry:Financial services
The number of the first cheque in your cheque reorder. This number should be after the last cheque you have in your possession. The cheque number is located in the top right corner of your check. Make sure that you are referring to the last cheque number in the series last received.
Industry:Financial services
The gradual retirement of the original issue at specified dates (usually coupon dates).
Industry:Financial services
