Public Securities Administration (PSA)

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PLC (Public Limited Company)
Under UK law there must be a minimum of seven shareholders in a PLC. There is no maximum number of shareholders allowed. Shares in PLCs can be bought or sold on the Stock Market by the general public. By implication, most big companies choose this route to growth as it provides access to large amounts of capital that can be used for investment, expansion and acquisition. Although technically owned by the shareholders, its management determines the affairs of the company. The US equivalents are I ...

Initial public offering (IPO)
IPO: Initial Public Offering (IPO) is a company's offering of newly issued shares from treasury to the general public. It is generally the first time that a company does so - making the transition from being a closed-door privately operated company to being a publicly traded, highly visible, entity. When doing an IPO, an underwriter, i.e. a stockbroker firm, handles the distribution of shares to the public. Effectively, the brokerage firm subscribes (underwrites) for the shares and then sells th ...

Publicly traded assets
Assets that can be traded in a public market, such as the stock market.

Public warehouse
Warehouse operated by an independent warehouse company on its own premises.

Public offering
The sale of registered securities by the issuer (or the underwriters acting in the interests of the issuer) in the public market. Also called public issue.

Public goods (collective goods)
These are a distinctive class of goods which cannot practically be withheld from one consumer without withholding them from all (the "nonexcludability criterion") and for which the marginal cost of an additional person consuming them, once they have been produced, is zero (the "nonrivalrous consumption" criterion).

The classic example of a nearly pure public good is national defense: you cannot defend the vulnerable border regions of a country from the ravages of foreign invaders witho ...

Amortizing securities
Securities that have an amortization schedule.

Non-amortizing securities
Securities that do not have an amortization schedule.

Fixed interest securities
Fixed interest securities relates to bonds, bills, stocks and debentures which offer a fixed rate of interest per period. The purchaser buys the income stream and the seller receives loan.

Convertible securities
Bond or preferred stock that can be converted to common stock if the investor so chooses.

Treasury securities
Securities issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Stripped mortgage-backed securities (SMBSs)
Securities that redistribute the cash flows from the underlying generic MBS collateral into the principal and interest components of the MBS to enhance their use in meeting special needs of investors.

Project loan securities
Securities backed by a variety of FHA-insured loan types - primarily multi-family apartment buildings, hospitals, and nursing homes.

Pass-through securities
A pool of fixed-income securities backed by a package of assets (i.e. mortgages) where the holder receives the principal and interest payments.

Mortgage-backed securities (MBS)
Securities backed by a pool of mortgage loans.

Mortgage-Backed Securities Clearing Corporation
A wholly owned subsidiary of the Midwest Stock Exchange that operates a clearing service for the comparison, netting, and margining of agency-guaranteed MBSs transacted for forward delivery.

Manufactured housing securities (MHSs)
Loans on manufactured homes - that is, factory-built or prefabricated housing, including mobile homes.

Book-entry securities
The Treasury and federal agencies are moving to a book-entry system in which securities are not represented by engraved pieces of paper but are maintained in computerized records at the Fed in the names of member banks, which in turn keep records of the securities they own as well as those they are holding for customers. In the case of other securities where a book-entry has developed, engraved securities do exist somewhere in quite a few cases. These securities do not move from holder to ho ...

Defensive securities
Low-risk stocks or bonds that will provide a predictable and safe return on an investor's money.

The Securities Industry Protection Corporation
Commonly named the SIPC. Provides up to $500,000 insurance protection for your U.S. stock brokerage account.

Johannesburg Securities Exchange (JSE)
Established in 1886, the Johannesburg Securities Exchange is the only stock exchange in South Africa. Gold and mining stocks form the majority of shares listed. The discovery of the Witwatersrand goldfields in 1886 and the subsequent formation of mining and financial companies, meant investors needed a facility through which to buy and sell shares. Benjamin Woollan provided that facility when he founded the JSE in November 1887. The JSE was admitted as a member of the Federation Internatio ...

PSA
A prepayment model based on an assumed rate of prepayment each month of the then unpaid principal balance of a pool of mortgages. PSA is used primarily to derive an implied prepayment speed of new production loans, a 100% PSA assumes a prepayment rate of 2% per month in the first month following the date of issue, increasing at 2% per month thereafter until the 30th month. Thereafter, 100% PSA is the same as 6% CPR.