STIR means Short-Term Interest Rate and it is used to describe the interest rate on fixed income assets with a maturity of less than one year. It is usually lower than the interest rate on longer...
The term 'Shorting a stock ' is widely used in the finance world and it means that someone is betting that the company will lose money and the person is positioned to profit if the stock loses value.&...
The Share Ratio is a way to calculate the risk-adjusted-performance. William Sharpe was the person that came up with that term and it's now widely used in finance. It is another way t...
Shares outstanding simply means the company's stock owned by shareholders, including share blocks held by institutional investors and restricted shares owned by the compa...
Shareholders Equity, or SE, is the amount of a company that is financed through shareholder investments such as Common Stock and preferred shares. It is made up of money invested in the company and Re...
The Series exams are a group of exams run by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Different exams are required / desirable for different financial roles, i.e:Series 55 - Equity Tr...
In investment banking and private equity, sensitivity tables are used to assess the likely impact of changes in specific variables on the outcome of a merger, LBO or other corporate act...
The Senior Vice President (also known as Executive Director) role is a mixture of management and client sourcing. The more successful the SVP is at sourcing clients and deals, the more likely it is he...
A senior tranche is the highest tranche of a security, i.e. the one deemed least risky. Any losses on the value of the security are only experienced in the senior tranche once all other tranches have ...
The phrase 'sell-side' refers to companies that are in the business of selling others, rather than buying them. Investment banks are part of the sell-side as one of their primary roles is to advise ot...