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An individual or institutional investor who meet certain minimum requirement relating to income, net worth, or investment knowledge. Also referred to as a sophisticated investor.
Accredited investor
A charge levied by some mutual funds when clients close their accounts
Account closing fees
A plan offered by mutual fund company that enables investors to make automatic periodic purchases of units of a particular mutual fund.
Accumulation plan
Also known as front end load.
Acquisition fee
An investment management style employed by managers who believe financial markets present occasional inefficiencies which can be exploited to earn excess returns. Proponents of this approach will try to add value through strategies such as market timing and individual security selection.
Active portfolio management
The deemed cost of an asset representing the sum of the amount originally paid plus any additional costs, such as brokerage fees and commissions
Adjusted cost basis
Provincial and territorial securities administrators such as securities commissions or other regulatory bodies that operate within the provincial and territorial governments. Powers and operations include registration, disclosure, and investigation and prosecution.
Administrative bodies
A statistical measure of the value a fund manager adds to the performance of the fund managed. If output is positive, the manager has added value to the portfolio. If the offer is negative, the manager has underperformed the market.
Alpha
Professionally managed portfolios of basic asset classes and/or commodities and include segregated funds, hedge funds, commodity pools, exchange – traded funds, income, trusts, closed – end funds and principal protected notes.
Alternative managed products
Gradually writing off the value of an intangible asset over a period of time. Commonly applied to items such as goodwill, improvements to leased premises, or expenses of a new stock or bond issue.
Amortization
The period during which the entire principal amount of the mortgage loan is to be repaid to the mortgagee.
Amortization period
This cost reflects the fact that mortgages might have entered the portfolio when the market rate for them was different from their fixed rate.
Amortized cost
A document that contains information not included in a simplified prospectus or annual financial statements.
Annual information form
The person on whose life insurance benefits are based.
Annuitant
A sum of money invested with the life insurance company that is paid out to the investor based on a predetermined formula. The annual payouts are composed of both the initial amount invested and returns generated.
Annuity
Firms that engage in the business of collecting mutual fund performance information and report this information on a regular basis.
Appraisal firm’s
The simultaneous purchase and sale of securities traded on different exchanges.
Arbitrage transactions
I somewhat in accurate method of calculating average annual return. It involves adding up the annual returns and dividing by the number of years.
Arithmetic mean
The lowest price at which a seller will except for the financial instrument being quoted.
Ask price
The weight of the various components [Cash, debt, equity, and money market securities] of and investors portfolio.
Asset allocation
All things of value that are owned by a firm or individual.
Assets
The assets managed by an investment firm
Assets under management
Markets in which securities are bought and sold by brokers acting as agent for their clients, in contrast to a dealer market where trades are conducted over the counter. For example, the Trono stock exchange it is an auction market.
Auction market
A professional review and examination of the company’s financial statements required under corporate law for the purpose of ensuring that the statements are fair, consistent and confirm with international financial reporting standards.
Audit