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Asset Allocation

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An investment strategy that aims to balance risk and reward by apportioning a portfolio's assets according to an investor’s goals, risk tolerance, and&nbsp ...

Asset Backed Security

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A debt security collateralized by assets created from the securitization of any loans; may describe the broad category that includes named subcategories, such as securitized reside ...

Asset Class

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A grouping of investments that exhibit similar characteristics and are subject to the same laws and regulations; made up of instruments which often behave similarly to one another ...

Attribution Analysis

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The decomposition of the total investment performance into additive components so as to attribute the total performance to sources that may reflect various investment management fu ...

Average

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A mathematical representation of the typical value of a series of numbers, computed as the sum of all the numbers in the series divided by the count of all numbers in the series; a ...

B Note (Junior Debt/Loan)

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The secondary tranche of an asset backed security (ABS) or other structured financial product; a B note carries a higher risk and potential higher return when compared to the inves ...

Bad Boy Acts/Carve-Out

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An exception to the non-recourse nature of a loan that provides for a loan party to have full or partial personal recourse liability for the loan in the event certain events occur, ...

Before-Tax Cash Flow (BTCF)

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For a property, the result of calculating the effective rental income, plus other income not affected by vacancy, less total operating expenses, less annual debt service, funded re ...

Before-Tax Internal Rate of Return (BTIRR)

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An internal rate of return (IRR) calculated using before-tax net cash flows.

Benchmark Cohort

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A universe of similar investments by competing managers or investors, measured from the same inception date.

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