Glossary
- All Definitions
- 130/30 Investment Strategy
- Absolute-return fund
- Accredited investor
- Activist investment strategy
- Administrator
- Aggressive growth
- Alpha
- Alternative assets
- Annual rate of return
- Arbitrage investment
- Assets under management
- Average Annual Return
- Average monthly return
- Average rate of return
- Back-test
- Beta
- Bond-futures arbitrage investment strategy
- Bottom-up investment strategy
- Capital-structure arbitrage investment strategy
- Clearing
- Clearinghouse
- Closed fund
- Collateralized debt obligation (CDO)
- Collateralized fund obligation (CFO)
- Commodity trading advisor (CTA)
- Compounded monthly return
- Convergence investment strategy
- Convertible arbitrage investment strategy
- Convertible bonds
- Country-specific investment strategy
- Custodian
- Derivative
- Discretionary account (managed account)
- Distressed securities investment strategy
- Diversification
- Drawdown
- Efficient frontier
- Eligible investor
- Emerging-markets investment strategy
- Event-driven investment strategy
- Event risk
- Exposure
- Fair value
- Fixed income investment strategy
- Fixed income arbitrage investment strategy
- Forward contract
- Fund of Funds (multi-manager vehicle)
- Fundamental analysis investment strategy
- Futures contract
- Gate
- General partner
- Global-macro investment strategy
- Grandfathered fund
- Haircut
- Hedge fund
- Hedged equities investment strategy
- High-water mark
- Hurdle rate
- Incentive fee (performance fee)
- Inception date
- International investment strategy
- Joint back office
- Jones model
- Lamp letter
- Leverage
- Limited partnership
- Liquidity
- Liquidity risk
- Lock-up
- Long-biased investment strategy
- Long-only investment strategy
- Long/short investment strategy
- Managed futures
- Management fee
- Margin loan
- Margin call
- Market-neutral investment strategy
- Market-neutral option arbitrage investment strategy
- Market timer
- Master-feeder fund
- Merger arbitrage investment strategy
- Minimum investment
- Mortgage-backed securities arbitrage investment strategy
- Multi strategy
- Net asset value (NAV)
- Net-fee requirement
- Netting
- Offshore fund
- Operational risk
- Opportunistic value investment strategy
- Option
- Options arbitrage investment strategy
- Options investment strategy
- Pairs trading investment strategy
- Payment netting (netting by novation)
- Performance trigger
- PIPEs
- Pooled investment vehicle
- Portable Alpha Investment Strategy
- Portfolio manager
- Portfolio turnover rate
- Prime broker
- Principal-protected note
- Private-equity fund
- Private placement
- Qualified investor
- R-squared
- Rate of return
- Redemption fee
- Redemption notice period
- Redemption
- Regional investment strategy
- Regulation D
- Regulation D investment strategy
- Regulation T
- Relative-value investment strategy
- Reporting agent
- Risk arbitrage investment strategy
- Risk-free rate
- Rule 506
- Section 3(c)(1)
- Section 3(c)(7)
- Sector investment strategy
- Settlement
- Sharpe ratio
- Short-biased investment strategy
- Short-only investment strategy
- Short sales
- Short-term trading strategy
- Small cap/micro cap investment strategy
- Soft dollars
- Sophisticated investor
- Sortino ratio
- Special situations investment strategy
- Specialized hedged financing
- Spread
- Standard deviation
- Statistical arbitrage investment strategy
- Stock-futures arbitrage investment strategy
- Swap contract
- Survivorship bias
- Ten commandments
- Top-down investment strategy
- Traditional investments
- Value investment strategy
- Value at risk (VaR)
- Value-added monthly index (VAMI)
- Venture capital
- Volatility
- Volatility arbitrage investment strategy
- Warrant
