A type of market index with individual components, or securities, weighted according to their total market capitalization; components with larger market capitalization exert a grea ...

A cost or an expense that rises or falls in direct proportion to production volume.

A measure of the spread between numbers in a data set; measures how far each number in the set is from the mean.

A form of private equity and a type of financing that investors provide to startup companies and small businesses that are believed to have long-term growth potential.

A term used in the context of a fund that is relying on the operating company exception to holding plan assets under ERISA.

An investment manager that employs a full spectrum of professionals needed to buy, operate and develop properties.  Often regionally-focused specialists with full development, ...

The degree to which a property has exposure and can be seen by the public through location and/or signage.

A statistical measure of the dispersion of returns for a given security or market index.

With reference to a debt obligation:  the priority of payment of amounts received from or on account of the borrower among creditors to the borrower; With reference to a fund: ...

The examination of how different values of an independent variable impact a particular dependent variable under a given set of assumptions; also known as “sensitivity analysi ...