Margin is a concept frequently explored in investing / trading and it refers to borrowed money which is used to invest (a.k.a. investing on the margin). This is essentially leverage, and the...
Managing Directors (MDs) are the highest-ranking role within an investment bank without becoming a Group Head or C-Level Officer. Their job is to find clients and get deals for the firm...
A Management Buyout (MBO) is a corporate action taken by the management of a firm, where they buy all the available shares in their own company in order to take the company private. This is done becau...
A macro environment is the global or national economy as a whole, rather than industry specific. This focuses on global financial, political and other assorted events. Many hedge funds, traders or ass...
Loss Carryforward is an accounting concept related to a net operating loss. It is simply the procedure by which a net operating loss is carried forward to a future period to reduce the ...
Long is a term used in trading to denote owning an asset and profiting when it's value goes up. This is the most common way to own assets, as it can be tricky to be short (profit when the as...
LSE stands for London Stock Exchange and it is the largest exchange in Europe. The main index traded on the LSE is the FTSE100. The LSE is the main European exchange for equities, bonds and derivative...
LIBOR stands for London Interbank Offer Rate and is the official rate of interest at which banks can borrow from each other in the UK interbank market.LIBOR is frequently used as t...
A Lock limit is a term used in futures trading to refer to a given price level at which trading will be halted. For example, if the lock limit on oil is $120 / barre...
Loan-to-Value (LTV) is a financial metric used to evaluate the level of risk given the possibility of default on a loan. The value asset is typically used as collateral for the loan, so if the value o...