Those elements which must be followed, where applicable, in order for an Account Report to be deemed compliant with the Reporting Standards.

A segregated investment account set up by a life insurance company which, through subaccounts, invests in the underlying mutual funds offered through a variable annuity or variable ...

A FASB Statement of Financial Accounting Standard.

Part of the investment Strategy, there are three commonly used industry terms to describe Style: Core, Value-added and Opportunistic.

An averaging technique whereby numerical characteristics (such as interest rates or rents) of a group of assets are averaged in proportion to each asset's common characteristic ...

Asset weighting of the portfolio returns within a composite using beginning-of-period weightings, beginning of period market values plus weighted cash flows, or by aggregating port ...

An aggregation of individual portfolios representing a similar investment objective or strategy, weighted by the beginning-of-period market values of the constituent portfolios.

A term applied to all open-end and closed end pooled investment vehicles. A Commingled Fund may be organized as a group trust, partnership, corporation, insurance company separate ...

Please see Effective Share. 

The maximum vehicle termination date based on either pre-determined extensions at the discretion of the manager or extensions with advisory board or investor vote.