Search results for: “cash flow”

  • Market Capitalization Rate

    Expected return on a security. The market-consensus estimate of the appropriate discount rate for a firm’s cash flows….

  • Macaulay Duration

    The weighted-average term to maturity of the cash flows from the bond, where the weights are the present value of the cash flow divided by the price….

  • Liability Funding Strategies

    Investment strategies that select assets so that cash flows will equal or exceed the client’s obligations….

  • Liability Swap

    An interest rate swap used to alter the cash flow characteristics of an institution’s liabilities so as to provide a better match with its assets….

  • Intrinsic Value Of A Firm

    The present value of a firm’s expected future net cash flows discounted by the required rate of return….

  • Internal Growth Rate

    Maximum rate a firm can expand without outside source of funding. Growth generated by cash flows retained by company….

  • Funds From Operations (Ffo)

    Used by real estate and other investment trusts to define the cash flow from trust operations. It is earnings with depreciation and amortization added back. A similar term increasingly used is Funds Available for Distribution (FAD), which is FFO less capital investments in trust property and […]

  • Forward Cover

    Purchase or sale of forward foreign currency in order to offset a known future cash flow….

  • First-Call

    With CMOs, the start of the cash flow cycle for the cash flow window….

  • Equity Swap

    A swap in which the cash flows that are exchanged are based on the total return on some stock market index and an interest rate (either a fixed rate or a floating rate). Related: interest rate swap….

  • End-Of-Year Convention

    Treating cash flows as if they occur at the end of a year as opposed to the date convention. Under the end-of-year convention, the present is time 0, the end of year 1 occurs one year hence, etc….

  • Effective Convexity

    The convexity of a bond calculated with cash flows that change with yields….

  • Effective Duration

    The duration calculated using the approximate duration formula for a bond with an embedded option, reflecting the expected change in the cash flow caused by the option. Measures the responsiveness of a bond’s price taking into account the expected cash flows will change as interest rates […]

  • Economic Income

    Cash flow plus change in present value….

  • Dollar-Weighted Rate Of Return

    Also called the internal rate of return, the interest rate that will make the present value of the cash flows from all the subperiods in the evaluation period plus the terminal market value of the portfolio equal to the initial market value of the portfolio….