R squared: The square of the correlation coefficient is the proportion of the var ...
R&D: Research and Development
Rally (recovery): An upward movement of prices. Opposite of reaction.
RAMs (Reverse-annuity mortgages): Mortgages in which the bank makes a loan for an amount equal to a per ...
Random Sampling: A sampling scheme whereby each observation is drawn from the populatio ...
Random variable: A function that assigns a real number to each and every possible outco ...
Random walk: Theory that stock price changes from day to day are at random; the cha ...
Randomized strategy: A strategy of introducing into the decision-making process a random el ...
Range: The high and low prices, or high and low bids and offers recorded duri ...
Range forward: A forward exchange rate contract that places upper and lower bounds on ...
RAROC: Refers to the Risk Adjusted Return on Capital. RAROC methodo ...
Ratchet: A provision often found in a terms sheet. A ratchet gives an investor ...
Rate anticipation swaps: An exchange of bonds in a portfolio for new bonds that will achieve th ...
Rate lock: An agreement between the mortgage banker and the loan applicant guaran ...
Rate of interest: The rate, as a proportion of the principal, at which interest is compu ...
Rate of return ratios: Ratios that are designed to measure the profitability of the firm in r ...
Rate risk: In banking, the risk that profits may decline or losses occur because ...
Ratings: An evaluation of credit quality Moody's, S&P, and Fitch Investors Serv ...
Rational expectations: The idea that people rationally anticipate the future and respond to w ...
Rationality: In game theory, one of the most common assumptions made is that every ...
Raw material supply agreement: As used in connection with project financing, an agreement to furnish ...
Reaction: A decline in prices following an advance. Opposite of rally.
Reaganomics: A school of thought within the economics profession emphasizing that t ...
Real assets: Identifiable assets, such as buildings, equipment, patents, and tradem ...
Real capital: Wealth that can be represented in financial terms, such as savings acc ...
Real cash flow: A cash flow is expressed in real terms if the current, or date 0, purc ...
Real exchange rates: Exchange rates that have been adjusted for the inflation differential ...
Real interest rate: The rate of interest excluding the effect of inflation; that is, the r ...
Real market: The bid and offer prices at which a dealer could do "size." Quotes in ...
Real option: An option involving real (as opposed to financial) assets where. Real ...
Real time: A real time stock or bond quote is one that states a security's most r ...
Realized compound yield: Yield assuming that coupon payments are invested at the going market i ...
Realized return: The return that is actually earned over a given time period.
Rebalancing: Realigning the proportions of assets in a portfolio as needed.
Receivables balance fractions: The percentage of a month's sales that remain uncollected (and part of ...
Receivables turnover ratio: Total operating revenues divided by average receivables. Used to measu ...
Receiver: A bankruptcy practitioner appointed by secured creditors in the United ...
Receivership: When a company is sick (financially speaking) and cannot meet its paym ...
Reclamation: A claim for the right to return or the right to demand the return of a ...
Record date: (a) Date by which a shareholder must officially own shares in order to ...
Recourse: Term describing a type of loan. If a loan is with recourse, the lender ...
Red herring: A preliminary prospectus containing information required by the SEC. I ...
Redeemable: Eligible for redemption under the terms of the indenture.
Redemption charge: The commission charged by a mutual fund when redeeming shares. For exa ...
Redemption cushion: The percentage by which the conversion value of a convertible security ...
Redemption Fee: A charge assessed against an invetor for redeeming shares or interests ...
Reference rate: A benchmark 'interest rate (such as LIBOR), used to specify conditions ...
Reflation: Policies to pump up demand and thus boost the level of economic activi ...
Refundable: Eligible for refunding under the terms of indenture.
Refunded bond: Also called a prerefunded bond, one that originally may have been issu ...
Refunding: The redemption of a bond with proceeds received from issuing lower-cos ...
Regional fund: A mutual fund that invests in a specific geographical area overseas, s ...
Registered bond: A bond whose issuer records ownership and interest payments. Differs f ...
Registered representative: A person registered with the US CFTC who is employed by, and solicitin ...
Registered trader: A member of the exchange who executes frequent trades for his or her o ...
Registrar: The Registrar of Companies, a governmental body controlling the format ...
Registration statement: A legal document that is filed with the SEC to register securities for ...
Regression analysis: A statistical technique that can be used to estimate relationships bet ...
Regression equation: An equation that describes the average relationship between a dependen ...
Regression toward the mean: The tendency for subsequent observations of a random variable to be cl ...
Regressive tax: A tax that tends to take a larger percentage of the incomes of lower i ...
Regular way settlement: In the money and bond markets, the regular basis on which some securit ...
Regulation A: The securities regulation in the US that exempts small public offering ...
Regulation D: Fed regulation currently that required member banks to hold reserves a ...
Regulation M: Fed regulation currently requiring member banks to hold reserves again ...
Regulation Q: US Federal regulation imposing caps on the rates that banks may pay on ...
Regulatory accounting procedures: Accounting principals required by the FHLB that allow S&Ls to elect a ...
Regulatory pricing risk: Risk that arises when regulators restrict the premium rates that insur ...
Regulatory surplus: The surplus as measured using regulatory accounting principles (RAP) w ...
Reinvestment rate: The rate at which an investor assumes interest payments made on a debt ...
Reinvestment risk: The risk that proceeds received in the future will have to be reinvest ...
Reinvestment risk on bonds: Usually, when the yield of a bond is calculated, you assume that the c ...
Reinvoicing center: A central financial subsidiary used by an MNC to reduce transaction ex ...
REIT (real estate investment trust): Real estate investment trust, which is similar to a closed-end mutual ...
Relative purchasing power parity (RPPP): Idea that the rate of change in the price level of commodities in one ...
Relative strength: A stock's price movement over the past year as compared to a market in ...
Relative value: The attractiveness measured in terms of risk, liquidity, and return of ...
Relative yield spread: The ratio of the yield spread to the yield level.
Remainderman: One who receives the principal of a trust when it is dissolved.
Remaining maturity: The length of time remaining until a bond's maturity.
Remaining principal balance: The amount of principal dollars remaining to be paid under the mortgag ...
Rembrandt bonds: Foreign bonds issued in Netherlands.
Rembrandt market: The foreign market in the Netherlands.
REMIC (real estate mortgage investment conduit): A pass-through tax entity that can hold mortgages secured by any type ...
Remote disbursement: Technique that involves writing checks drawn on banks in remote locati ...
Remuneration and Nomination Committee: A committee that advises the Supervisory Board in a company on compens ...
Reoffering yield: In a purchase and sale, the yield to maturity at which the underwriter ...
Reopen an issue: The Treasury, when it wants to sell additional securities, will occasi ...
Reorganization: Creating a plan to restructure a debtor's business and restore its fin ...
Replacement cost: Cost to replace a firm's assets.
Replacement cost: What it would cost today to replace a company’s existing assets.
Replacement cycle: The frequency with which an asset is replaced by an equivalent asset.
Replacement value: Current cost of replacing the firm's assets.
Replacement-chain problem: Idea that future replacement decisions must be taken into account in s ...
Replicating portfolio: A portfolio constructed to match an index or benchmark.
Repo: A repo is a repurchase agreement. A procedure for borrowing money by s ...
Repo rate: The interest rate in a repo transaction.
Reported factor: The pool factor as reported by the bond buyer for a given amortization ...
Reporting currency: The currency in which the parent firm prepares its own financial state ...
Reproducible assets: A tangible asset with physical properties that can be reproduced, such ...
Repurchase agreement: An agreement with a commitment by the seller (dealer) to buy a securit ...
Repurchase of stock: Device to pay cash to firm's shareholders that provides more preferabl ...
Required reserves: The dollar amounts based on reserve ratios that banks are required to ...
Required return: The minimum expected return you would require to be willing to purchas ...
Required yield: Generally referring to bonds, the yield required by the marketplace to ...
Reserve: An accounting entry that properly reflects the contingent liabilities.
Reserve currency: A foreign currency held by a central bank or monetary authority for th ...
Reserve ratios: Specified percentages of deposits, established by the Federal Reserve ...
Reserve requirements: The percentage of different types of deposits that member banks are re ...
Reset frequency: The frequency with which the floating rate changes.
Residual assets: Assets that remain after sufficient assets are dedicated to meet all s ...
Residual dividend approach: An approach that suggests that a firm pay dividends if and only if acc ...
Residual losses: Lost wealth of the shareholders due to divergent behavior of the manag ...
Residual method: A method of allocating the purchase price for the acquisition of anoth ...
Residual value: Usually refers to the value of a lessor's property at the time the lea ...
Residuals: (a) Parts of stock returns not explained by the explanatory variable ( ...
Resistance level: A price level above which it is supposedly difficult for a security or ...
Restrictive covenants: Provisions that place constraints on the operations of borrowers, such ...
Restrictive practice: A general term for anything done by a company, or companies, to inhibi ...
Retail: Individual and institutional customers as opposed to dealers and broke ...
Retail credit: Credit granted by a firm to consumers for the purchase of goods or ser ...
Retail investors individual investors: Small investors who commit capital for their personal account.
Retained Earnings: The retained earnings are the net profits kept to accumulate in a busi ...
Retention rate: The percentage of present earnings held back or retained by a corporat ...
Retire: To extinguish a security, as in paying off a debt.
Retracement: A price movement in the opposite direction of the previous trend.
Return: The change in the value of a portfolio over an evaluation period, incl ...
Return on assets (ROA): Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the ...
Return on equity (ROE): Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the ...
Return on investment (ROI): Generally, book income as a proportion of net book value.
Return on total assets: The ratio of earnings available to common stockholders to total assets ...
Return-to-maturity expectations: A variant of pure expectations theory which suggests that the return t ...
Revaluation: An increase in the foreign exchange value of a currency that is pegged ...
Revenue bond: A bond issued by a municipality to finance either a project or an ente ...
Revenue fund: A fund accounting for all revenues from an enterprise financed by a mu ...
Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1995: Proposed changes to the Internal Revenue Code affecting foreign trust ...
Reverse price risk: A type of mortgage-pipeline risk that occurs when a lender commits to ...
Reverse repo: In essence, refers to a repurchase agreement. From the customer's pers ...
Reverse stock split: A proportionate decrease in the number of shares, but not the value of ...
Reverse Takeover (RTO): A reverse takeover is one way of going public. A public company can ta ...
Reversing trade: Entering the opposite side of a currently held futures position to clo ...
Revolving credit agreement: A legal commitment wherein a bank promises to lend a customer up to a ...
Revolving line of credit: A bank line of credit on which the customer pays a commitment fee and ...
Reward-to-volatility ratio: Ratio of excess return to portfolio standard deviation.
Riding the yield curve: Buying long-term bonds in anticipation of capital gains as yields fall ...
Right: A short-lived (typically less than 90 days) call option for purchasing ...
Rights issue: An new share issue to existing shareholders giving them the right to b ...
Rights-on: Shares trading with rights attached to them.
Rings: Trading arenas located on the floor of an exchange in which traders ex ...
Risk: Typically defined as the standard deviation of the return on total inv ...
Risk arbitrage: The practice of buying the stock of takeover targets after a merger is ...
Risk averse: A risk-averse investor is one who, when faced with two investments wit ...
Risk Capital: Money put up by ordinary shareholders, an individual entrepreneur or v ...
Risk classes: Groups of projects that have approximately the same amount of risk.
Risk controlled arbitrage: A self-funding, self-hedged series of transactions that generally util ...
Risk indexes: Categories of risk used to calculate fundamental beta, including (a) m ...
Risk lover: A person willing to accept lower expected returns on prospects with hi ...
Risk management: The process of identifying and evaluating risks and selecting and mana ...
Risk neutral: Insensitive to risk.
Risk premium: The reward for holding the risky market portfolio rather than the risk ...
Risk premium approach: The most common approach for tactical asset allocation to determine th ...
Risk prone: Willing to pay money to transfer risk from others.
Risk-adjusted profitability: A probability used to determine a "sure" expected value (sometimes cal ...
Risk-adjusted return: Return earned on an asset normalized for the amount of risk associated ...
Risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC): Measures performance on a risk-adjusted basis. Calculated as the econo ...
Risk-free asset: An asset whose future return is known today with certainty.
Risk-free rate: The rate earned on a riskless asset.
Riskless arbitrage: The simultaneous purchase and sale of the same asset to yield a profit ...
Riskless rate of return: The rate earned on a riskless asset.
Risky asset: An asset whose future return is uncertain.
ROIC: Return on invested capital. This ratio is commonly used to assess the ...
ROL: Romanian Leu from Romania.
Roll over: Reinvest funds received from a maturing security in a new issue of the ...
Rollover: Most term loans in the Euromarket are made on a rollover basis, which ...
Round lot: A trading order typically of 100 shares of a stock or some multiple of ...
Round-trip transactions costs: Costs of completing a transaction, including commissions, market impac ...
Round-turn: Procedure by which the Long or short position of an individual is offs ...
Rule 144a: SEC rule allowing qualified institutional buyers to buy and trade unre ...
Rule 415: Rule enacted in 1982 that permits firms to file shelf registration sta ...
Rule-of-72: This is a very handy "rule" that lets you mentally calculate how long ...
Run: A run consists of a series of bid and offer quotes for different secur ...
RUR: Russian Federation Rouble from the Russian Federation. The ru ...
RWF: Rwandian Franc from Rwanda.
R&D: Research and Development
Rally (recovery): An upward movement of prices. Opposite of reaction.
RAMs (Reverse-annuity mortgages): Mortgages in which the bank makes a loan for an amount equal to a per ...
Random Sampling: A sampling scheme whereby each observation is drawn from the populatio ...
Random variable: A function that assigns a real number to each and every possible outco ...
Random walk: Theory that stock price changes from day to day are at random; the cha ...
Randomized strategy: A strategy of introducing into the decision-making process a random el ...
Range: The high and low prices, or high and low bids and offers recorded duri ...
Range forward: A forward exchange rate contract that places upper and lower bounds on ...
RAROC: Refers to the Risk Adjusted Return on Capital. RAROC methodo ...
Ratchet: A provision often found in a terms sheet. A ratchet gives an investor ...
Rate anticipation swaps: An exchange of bonds in a portfolio for new bonds that will achieve th ...
Rate lock: An agreement between the mortgage banker and the loan applicant guaran ...
Rate of interest: The rate, as a proportion of the principal, at which interest is compu ...
Rate of return ratios: Ratios that are designed to measure the profitability of the firm in r ...
Rate risk: In banking, the risk that profits may decline or losses occur because ...
Ratings: An evaluation of credit quality Moody's, S&P, and Fitch Investors Serv ...
Rational expectations: The idea that people rationally anticipate the future and respond to w ...
Rationality: In game theory, one of the most common assumptions made is that every ...
Raw material supply agreement: As used in connection with project financing, an agreement to furnish ...
Reaction: A decline in prices following an advance. Opposite of rally.
Reaganomics: A school of thought within the economics profession emphasizing that t ...
Real assets: Identifiable assets, such as buildings, equipment, patents, and tradem ...
Real capital: Wealth that can be represented in financial terms, such as savings acc ...
Real cash flow: A cash flow is expressed in real terms if the current, or date 0, purc ...
Real exchange rates: Exchange rates that have been adjusted for the inflation differential ...
Real interest rate: The rate of interest excluding the effect of inflation; that is, the r ...
Real market: The bid and offer prices at which a dealer could do "size." Quotes in ...
Real option: An option involving real (as opposed to financial) assets where. Real ...
Real time: A real time stock or bond quote is one that states a security's most r ...
Realized compound yield: Yield assuming that coupon payments are invested at the going market i ...
Realized return: The return that is actually earned over a given time period.
Rebalancing: Realigning the proportions of assets in a portfolio as needed.
Receivables balance fractions: The percentage of a month's sales that remain uncollected (and part of ...
Receivables turnover ratio: Total operating revenues divided by average receivables. Used to measu ...
Receiver: A bankruptcy practitioner appointed by secured creditors in the United ...
Receivership: When a company is sick (financially speaking) and cannot meet its paym ...
Reclamation: A claim for the right to return or the right to demand the return of a ...
Record date: (a) Date by which a shareholder must officially own shares in order to ...
Recourse: Term describing a type of loan. If a loan is with recourse, the lender ...
Red herring: A preliminary prospectus containing information required by the SEC. I ...
Redeemable: Eligible for redemption under the terms of the indenture.
Redemption charge: The commission charged by a mutual fund when redeeming shares. For exa ...
Redemption cushion: The percentage by which the conversion value of a convertible security ...
Redemption Fee: A charge assessed against an invetor for redeeming shares or interests ...
Reference rate: A benchmark 'interest rate (such as LIBOR), used to specify conditions ...
Reflation: Policies to pump up demand and thus boost the level of economic activi ...
Refundable: Eligible for refunding under the terms of indenture.
Refunded bond: Also called a prerefunded bond, one that originally may have been issu ...
Refunding: The redemption of a bond with proceeds received from issuing lower-cos ...
Regional fund: A mutual fund that invests in a specific geographical area overseas, s ...
Registered bond: A bond whose issuer records ownership and interest payments. Differs f ...
Registered representative: A person registered with the US CFTC who is employed by, and solicitin ...
Registered trader: A member of the exchange who executes frequent trades for his or her o ...
Registrar: The Registrar of Companies, a governmental body controlling the format ...
Registration statement: A legal document that is filed with the SEC to register securities for ...
Regression analysis: A statistical technique that can be used to estimate relationships bet ...
Regression equation: An equation that describes the average relationship between a dependen ...
Regression toward the mean: The tendency for subsequent observations of a random variable to be cl ...
Regressive tax: A tax that tends to take a larger percentage of the incomes of lower i ...
Regular way settlement: In the money and bond markets, the regular basis on which some securit ...
Regulation A: The securities regulation in the US that exempts small public offering ...
Regulation D: Fed regulation currently that required member banks to hold reserves a ...
Regulation M: Fed regulation currently requiring member banks to hold reserves again ...
Regulation Q: US Federal regulation imposing caps on the rates that banks may pay on ...
Regulatory accounting procedures: Accounting principals required by the FHLB that allow S&Ls to elect a ...
Regulatory pricing risk: Risk that arises when regulators restrict the premium rates that insur ...
Regulatory surplus: The surplus as measured using regulatory accounting principles (RAP) w ...
Reinvestment rate: The rate at which an investor assumes interest payments made on a debt ...
Reinvestment risk: The risk that proceeds received in the future will have to be reinvest ...
Reinvestment risk on bonds: Usually, when the yield of a bond is calculated, you assume that the c ...
Reinvoicing center: A central financial subsidiary used by an MNC to reduce transaction ex ...
REIT (real estate investment trust): Real estate investment trust, which is similar to a closed-end mutual ...
Relative purchasing power parity (RPPP): Idea that the rate of change in the price level of commodities in one ...
Relative strength: A stock's price movement over the past year as compared to a market in ...
Relative value: The attractiveness measured in terms of risk, liquidity, and return of ...
Relative yield spread: The ratio of the yield spread to the yield level.
Remainderman: One who receives the principal of a trust when it is dissolved.
Remaining maturity: The length of time remaining until a bond's maturity.
Remaining principal balance: The amount of principal dollars remaining to be paid under the mortgag ...
Rembrandt bonds: Foreign bonds issued in Netherlands.
Rembrandt market: The foreign market in the Netherlands.
REMIC (real estate mortgage investment conduit): A pass-through tax entity that can hold mortgages secured by any type ...
Remote disbursement: Technique that involves writing checks drawn on banks in remote locati ...
Remuneration and Nomination Committee: A committee that advises the Supervisory Board in a company on compens ...
Reoffering yield: In a purchase and sale, the yield to maturity at which the underwriter ...
Reopen an issue: The Treasury, when it wants to sell additional securities, will occasi ...
Reorganization: Creating a plan to restructure a debtor's business and restore its fin ...
Replacement cost: Cost to replace a firm's assets.
Replacement cost: What it would cost today to replace a company’s existing assets.
Replacement cycle: The frequency with which an asset is replaced by an equivalent asset.
Replacement value: Current cost of replacing the firm's assets.
Replacement-chain problem: Idea that future replacement decisions must be taken into account in s ...
Replicating portfolio: A portfolio constructed to match an index or benchmark.
Repo: A repo is a repurchase agreement. A procedure for borrowing money by s ...
Repo rate: The interest rate in a repo transaction.
Reported factor: The pool factor as reported by the bond buyer for a given amortization ...
Reporting currency: The currency in which the parent firm prepares its own financial state ...
Reproducible assets: A tangible asset with physical properties that can be reproduced, such ...
Repurchase agreement: An agreement with a commitment by the seller (dealer) to buy a securit ...
Repurchase of stock: Device to pay cash to firm's shareholders that provides more preferabl ...
Required reserves: The dollar amounts based on reserve ratios that banks are required to ...
Required return: The minimum expected return you would require to be willing to purchas ...
Required yield: Generally referring to bonds, the yield required by the marketplace to ...
Reserve: An accounting entry that properly reflects the contingent liabilities.
Reserve currency: A foreign currency held by a central bank or monetary authority for th ...
Reserve ratios: Specified percentages of deposits, established by the Federal Reserve ...
Reserve requirements: The percentage of different types of deposits that member banks are re ...
Reset frequency: The frequency with which the floating rate changes.
Residual assets: Assets that remain after sufficient assets are dedicated to meet all s ...
Residual dividend approach: An approach that suggests that a firm pay dividends if and only if acc ...
Residual losses: Lost wealth of the shareholders due to divergent behavior of the manag ...
Residual method: A method of allocating the purchase price for the acquisition of anoth ...
Residual value: Usually refers to the value of a lessor's property at the time the lea ...
Residuals: (a) Parts of stock returns not explained by the explanatory variable ( ...
Resistance level: A price level above which it is supposedly difficult for a security or ...
Restrictive covenants: Provisions that place constraints on the operations of borrowers, such ...
Restrictive practice: A general term for anything done by a company, or companies, to inhibi ...
Retail: Individual and institutional customers as opposed to dealers and broke ...
Retail credit: Credit granted by a firm to consumers for the purchase of goods or ser ...
Retail investors individual investors: Small investors who commit capital for their personal account.
Retained Earnings: The retained earnings are the net profits kept to accumulate in a busi ...
Retention rate: The percentage of present earnings held back or retained by a corporat ...
Retire: To extinguish a security, as in paying off a debt.
Retracement: A price movement in the opposite direction of the previous trend.
Return: The change in the value of a portfolio over an evaluation period, incl ...
Return on assets (ROA): Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the ...
Return on equity (ROE): Indicator of profitability. Determined by dividing net income for the ...
Return on investment (ROI): Generally, book income as a proportion of net book value.
Return on total assets: The ratio of earnings available to common stockholders to total assets ...
Return-to-maturity expectations: A variant of pure expectations theory which suggests that the return t ...
Revaluation: An increase in the foreign exchange value of a currency that is pegged ...
Revenue bond: A bond issued by a municipality to finance either a project or an ente ...
Revenue fund: A fund accounting for all revenues from an enterprise financed by a mu ...
Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1995: Proposed changes to the Internal Revenue Code affecting foreign trust ...
Reverse price risk: A type of mortgage-pipeline risk that occurs when a lender commits to ...
Reverse repo: In essence, refers to a repurchase agreement. From the customer's pers ...
Reverse stock split: A proportionate decrease in the number of shares, but not the value of ...
Reverse Takeover (RTO): A reverse takeover is one way of going public. A public company can ta ...
Reversing trade: Entering the opposite side of a currently held futures position to clo ...
Revolving credit agreement: A legal commitment wherein a bank promises to lend a customer up to a ...
Revolving line of credit: A bank line of credit on which the customer pays a commitment fee and ...
Reward-to-volatility ratio: Ratio of excess return to portfolio standard deviation.
Riding the yield curve: Buying long-term bonds in anticipation of capital gains as yields fall ...
Right: A short-lived (typically less than 90 days) call option for purchasing ...
Rights issue: An new share issue to existing shareholders giving them the right to b ...
Rights-on: Shares trading with rights attached to them.
Rings: Trading arenas located on the floor of an exchange in which traders ex ...
Risk: Typically defined as the standard deviation of the return on total inv ...
Risk arbitrage: The practice of buying the stock of takeover targets after a merger is ...
Risk averse: A risk-averse investor is one who, when faced with two investments wit ...
Risk Capital: Money put up by ordinary shareholders, an individual entrepreneur or v ...
Risk classes: Groups of projects that have approximately the same amount of risk.
Risk controlled arbitrage: A self-funding, self-hedged series of transactions that generally util ...
Risk indexes: Categories of risk used to calculate fundamental beta, including (a) m ...
Risk lover: A person willing to accept lower expected returns on prospects with hi ...
Risk management: The process of identifying and evaluating risks and selecting and mana ...
Risk neutral: Insensitive to risk.
Risk premium: The reward for holding the risky market portfolio rather than the risk ...
Risk premium approach: The most common approach for tactical asset allocation to determine th ...
Risk prone: Willing to pay money to transfer risk from others.
Risk-adjusted profitability: A probability used to determine a "sure" expected value (sometimes cal ...
Risk-adjusted return: Return earned on an asset normalized for the amount of risk associated ...
Risk-adjusted return on capital (RAROC): Measures performance on a risk-adjusted basis. Calculated as the econo ...
Risk-free asset: An asset whose future return is known today with certainty.
Risk-free rate: The rate earned on a riskless asset.
Riskless arbitrage: The simultaneous purchase and sale of the same asset to yield a profit ...
Riskless rate of return: The rate earned on a riskless asset.
Risky asset: An asset whose future return is uncertain.
ROIC: Return on invested capital. This ratio is commonly used to assess the ...
ROL: Romanian Leu from Romania.
Roll over: Reinvest funds received from a maturing security in a new issue of the ...
Rollover: Most term loans in the Euromarket are made on a rollover basis, which ...
Round lot: A trading order typically of 100 shares of a stock or some multiple of ...
Round-trip transactions costs: Costs of completing a transaction, including commissions, market impac ...
Round-turn: Procedure by which the Long or short position of an individual is offs ...
Rule 144a: SEC rule allowing qualified institutional buyers to buy and trade unre ...
Rule 415: Rule enacted in 1982 that permits firms to file shelf registration sta ...
Rule-of-72: This is a very handy "rule" that lets you mentally calculate how long ...
Run: A run consists of a series of bid and offer quotes for different secur ...
RUR: Russian Federation Rouble from the Russian Federation. The ru ...
RWF: Rwandian Franc from Rwanda.
