Terms with Category Investments
- Foreign Investment — Definition,
- Investing money into a business in another country.
- Franchise — Definition,
- The right to sell products or services under a corporate name or trade mark (established by someone else). This right is usually purchased for cash in addition to a royalty fee on, or a percentage of, all sales.
- Friendly Takeover — Definition,
- When a company purchases another and both parties' management approve.
- Fringe Benefit — Definition,
- Employee compensation other than your wages, tips and salaries, such as health insurance, life insurance and pension plans. Usually referred to as a Bonus.
- Future Value of an Annuity (FVA) — Acronym,
- The value of an annuity at some future date.
- Futures — Definition,
- Contracts to buy something in the future at a price agreed upon in advance. They first developed in the agriculture commodity markets but often involve foreign exchange, Eurodollar deposits and government bonds.
- Goods and Services Tax (GS, GST) — Acronym, Canada,
- A sales tax that applies in all Canadian provinces charged at 5% (as of 2012).
➥ Bank account transaction code. - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) — Acronym,
- The total value of all the goods and services produced by the Canadian economy in a single year.
- Gross National Product (GNP) — Acronym,
- The value of all goods and services accruing to Canadians in a given year. It equals Gross Domestic Product, plus income of Canadians from foreign production, less income from Canadian production earned by non-residents (such as interest and dividends paid to foreign lenders).
- Gross Profit Margin — Definition,
- The difference between the sales your business generates and the costs you pay out for goods.
- Guarantee Period — Definition,
- A time period where income payments from an annuity are guaranteed.
- Guaranteed Investment Certificate (GIC) — Acronym, Important,
- An investment that pays a set rate of interest over a fixed period of time.
- Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) — Acronym, Canada,
- A sales tax used in some provinces to merge the GST and PST.
➥ Canadian consumption tax. - Hostile Takeover — Definition,
- When a company purchases another but the target company's management does not approve.
- Housing-equity Partnership — Definition,
- An arrangement in which one buyer lives in a home and the other has an ownership stake as an investment. The partners split the capital gain after the property is sold.
- Hybrid Annuity — Definition,
- An annuity with both fixed and variable annuity elements.
- Illiquid Asset — Definition,
- An asset that cannot be sold easily or in a timely manner for its full value.
- Immediate Payment Annuity — Definition,
- An annuity where payments to the annuitant start immediately after the annuity has been set up.
- Income — Definition,
- The money earned in a specific time period.
- Income Approach — Definition,
- A step in the valuation process of an income property. The value is reached by estimating the annual income minus an allowance for vacancies and bad debts and then subtracting annual operating expenses, real estate taxes, and insurance premiums to obtain the net operating income. This is then converted by capitalization into a capital value.
- Income Property — Definition,
- Real estate developed or improved to produce income. Also referred to as "non-owner occupied property" or "rental property."
- Income Statement — Definition,
- Also known as the profit and loss statement or P&L, enables you to calculate your company's pre-tax profits by subtracting total expenses from total revenues.
- Incorporated Business — Definition,
- A company that exists as a corporation.
- Index — Definition,
- A table of yields or interest rates being paid on debt (such as Treasury notes or bank deposits) that is used to determine interest-rate changes.
- Indexed Annuity — Definition,
- An annuity where investment performance is pegged to a stock index.
- Inflation — Definition,
- A rise in the average level of prices in the economy.
- Inflation-Protected Annuity — Definition,
- An annuity that guarantees a return equal to or above inflation.
- Informal Trust — Definition,
- Also known as in-trust account or "bare" trust, this is an investment account registered in an adult's name in trust for a child. The account is used to save/invest funds for a child, and the funds must be reserved for and used by the beneficiary child.
- Initial Public Offering (IPO) — Acronym,
- When shares of a corporation become available to the public for the first time.
- Insurable Interest — Definition,
- Something of sufficient worth and benefit that an individual or entity would have reason to insure against its lost.
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