Term trust

A closed-end fund that has a fixed termination or maturity date.

Similar financial terms

Term to maturity
The term to maturity of a bond, commonly referred to as maturity or term, is the number of years over which the issuer has promised to meet the conditions of the obligation set out in the bond indenture. The maturity of a bond refers to the date that the debt will cease to exist, at which time the issuer will redeem the bond by paying the principal (or face value).

Short-term bonds
Bonds with a maturity of between one and five years.

Medium-term or intermediate-term bonds
Bonds with a maturity of between five and twelve years.

Long-term bonds
Bonds with a maturity of more than 12 years.

Short Term Gain
The profit realized from the sale of securities or other capital assets possessed for twelve months or less.

Volatility term structure
The volatility term structure is the variation of implied volatility with time to maturity.

Terminal value
The value at maturity.

Term structure of interest rates
The relationship between interest rates and their maturities.

Current portion of long-term dept
Those liabilities that are payable within the next 12 months, including accounts and taxes payable, and the current portion (12 months' payments) of notes payable and current liabilities.

Terms of trade
The weighted average of a nation's export prices relative to its import prices.

Terms of sale
Conditions on which a firm proposes to sell its goods services for cash or credit.

Term premiums
Excess of the yields to maturity on long-term bonds over those of short-term bonds.

Term repo
A repurchase agreement with a term of more than one day.

Term insurance
Provides a death benefit only, no build-up of cash value.

Term loan
A bank loan, typically with a floating interest rate, for a specified amount that matures in between one and ten years and requires a specified repayment schedule.

Term bonds
Often referred to as bullet-maturity bonds or simply bullet bonds, bonds whose principal is payable at maturity.

Term life insurance
A contract that provides a death benefit but no cash build-up or investment component. The premium remains constant only for a specified term of years, and the policy is usually renewable at the end of each term.

Term Fed Funds
Federal funds sold for a period of time longer than overnight.

Short-term tax exempts
Short-term securities issued by states, municipalities, local housing agencies, and urban renewal agencies.

Short-term solvency ratios
Ratios used to judge the adequacy of liquid assets for meeting short-term obligations as they come due, including (a) the current ratio, (b) the acid-test ratio, (c) the inventory turnover ratio, and (d) the accounts receivable turnover ratio.

Short-term investment services
Services that assist firms in making short-term investments.

Short-term financial plan
A financial plan that covers the coming fiscal year.

Other long term liabilities
Value of leases, future employee benefits, deferred taxes and other obligations not requiring interest payments that must be paid over a period of more than 1 year.

Medium-term note (MTN)
A corporate debt instrument that is continuously offered to investors over a period of time by an agent of the issuer. Investors can select from the following maturity bands: 9 months to 1 year, more than 1 year to 18 months, more than 18 months to 2 years, etc., up to 30 years.

Long-term debt to equity ratio
A capitalization ratio comparing long-term debt to shareholders' equity.

Long-term liabilities
Amount owed for leases, bond repayment and other items due after 1 year.

Long-term financial plan
Financial plan covering two or more years of future operations.

Long-term debt ratio
The ratio of long-term debt to total capitalization.

Long-term debt/capitalization
Indicator of financial leverage. Shows long-term debt as a proportion of the capital available. Determined by dividing long-term debt by the sum of long-term debt, preferred stock and common stockholder equity.

Long-term debt
An obligation having a maturity of more than one year from the date it was issued. Also called funded debt.

Long-term assets
Value of property, equipment and other capital assets minus the depreciation. This is an entry in the bookkeeping records of a company, usually on a "cost" basis and thus does not necessarily reflect the market value of the assets.

Long-term
In accounting information, one year or greater.

Liquidity theory of the term structure
A biased expectations theory that asserts that the implied forward rates will not be a pure estimate of the market's expectations of future interest rates because they embody a liquidity premium.

Terms Sheet
This is a document outlining the investment terms of a particular investment opportunity. It defines the terms and conditions of an investment, usually as dictated by an investor. It is the negotiating document that the parties must jointly agree to before a definitive investment agreement can be drafted.

Coefficient of determination
A measure of the goodness of fit of the relationship between the dependent and independent variables in a regression analysis; for instance, the percentage of variation in the return of an asset explained by the market portfolio return.

Financial intermediaries
Institutions which channel funds from people and institutions wishing to lend to those wishing to borrow.

Terminal Elevator
An elevator located at a point of greatest accumulation in the movement of agricultural products which stores the commodity or moves it to processors.

Terminal Market
Usually synonymous with commodity exchange or futures market, specifically in the United Kingdom.

Trust receipt
Receipt for goods that are to be held in trust for the lender.

Trust deed
Agreement between trustee and borrower setting out terms of bond.

REIT (real estate investment trust)
Real estate investment trust, which is similar to a closed-end mutual fund. REITs invest in real estate or loans secured by real estate and issue shares in such investments.

Personal trust
An interest in an asset held by a trustee for the benefit of another person.

Discretionary trust
Discretionary trusts are one of the most flexible trust funds. Once the assets are transferred to the trust fund, the transferor no longer have legal rights to, or ownership of, them. However, the transferor can maintain control by appointing the trustee. The capital the transferor puts into the trust stays there until the time stipulated by the transferor for funds to be paid out or until such time as the trustees decide to do so.

Collateral trust bonds
A bond in which the issuer (often a holding company) grants investors a lien on stocks, notes, bonds, or other financial asset as security.

Generation-skipping trust
A trust in which a principal amount is placed in a trust on the death of person A and is transferred to A's grandchildren when A's children die. However, the income generated from the trust while the children of person A are alive goes to the children of person A.

Adverse trustee
One who has a substantial, beneficial interest in the trust assets as well as the income or benefits derived from the trust. A trustee that is related to the creator by birth, marriage or in an employer/employee relationship.

Asset Protection Trust (APT)
A special form of irrevocable trust, usually created (settled) offshore for the principal purposes of preserving and protecting part of one's wealth offshore against creditors. Title to the asset is transferred to a person named the trustee. Generally used for asset protection and usually tax neutral. Its ultimate function is to provide for the beneficiaries of the APT.

Discretionary Trust
A grantor trust in which the trustee has complete discretion as to who among the class of beneficiaries receives income and/or principal distributions. There are no limits upon the trustee or it would cease to be a discretionary trust. The letter of wishes could provide some guidance to the trustee without having any legal and binding effects. Provides flexibility to the trustee and the utmost privacy.

Independent Trustee
A trustee who is independent of the settlor. Independence is generally defined as not being related to the settlor by blood, through marriage, by adoption or in an employer/employee relationship.

Layered Trusts
Trusts placed in series where the beneficiary of the first trust is the second trust; used for privacy.

Pure Equity Trust
A special type of irrevocable trust marketed by promoters. The trust assets are obtained by an exchange of a certificate of beneficial interest in return for the assets, as opposed to traditional means, such as by gifting.

Pure Trust
A contractual trust as opposed to a statutory trust, created under the Common Law. A pure trust is one in which there must be a minimum of three parties(the creator or settlor (never grantor), the trustee and the beneficiary(and each is a separate entity. A pure trust is claimed to be a lawful, irrevocable, separate legal entity.

Trustee
A person totally independent of the settlor who has the fiduciary responsibility to the beneficiaries to manage the assets of the trust as a reasonable prudent business person would do in the same circumstances. Shall defer to the trust protector when required in the best interest of the trust. The trustee reporting requirements shall be defined at the onset and should include how often, to whom, how to respond to instructions or inquiries, global investment strategies, fees (flat and/or percent ...

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CAPM

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It can be calculated as follows:

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