- Industria: Financial services
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Fund that limits assets to those securities that are exempt from taxation in Hawaii, (double tax-exempt) or city, (triple tax-exempt).
Industry:Financial services
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*CRB Spot Index at 3:00 EST: 196.61 up 2.11
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+ ABCD Corp. To Buy 1234 Corp.
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U.S. MacKay/Free-Trade/Cairns -4: Concern Over Venezuela
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Industry:Financial services
Fund invests 65% of equity portfolio in shares of companies engaged in health care, medicine, and biotechnology.
Industry:Financial services
A conservative strategy used to limit investment loss by effecting a transaction, which offsets an existing position.
Industry:Financial services
In general, hedge funds offer access to strategies and returns not available to investors in traditional long-only strategies. Hedge funds offer a broad range of strategies that include event driven, equity long-short, relative value, multi-strategy, global macro, and managed futures. Hedge funds may include risks not typically underwritten by traditional managers such as leverage, a lack of transparency, and lower liquidity that make them inappropriate for some investors.
Industry:Financial services
The highest trading price of a security or option during the current trading session. When the market is closed, this number indicates the highest price for the entire most-recent trading session.
Industry:Financial services
Fund aims at high (relative) current yield from fixed income securities, has no quality or maturity restrictions, and tend to invest in lower grade debt issues.
Industry:Financial services
Fund that aims at high (relative) current yield from fixed income securities, has no quality or maturity restrictions, and tends to invest in lower grade debt issues. These Funds can be leveraged via use of debt, preferred equity, and/or reverse repurchase agreements.
Industry:Financial services
Credit designation given bonds issued by companies that represent a high credit risk, with an above average chance of not making one or more future interest payments and/or not fully repaying its face value upon maturity, but typically paying a higher yield than safer government issues.
Industry:Financial services
