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1. Abnormal Return — excess return beyond expected benchmark
2. Accretive Merger — deal that increases EPS
3. Alpha Decay — erosion of strategy outperformance
4. Amortization Arbitrage — exploiting amortization timing differences
5. Anchoring Bias — cognitive bias affecting valuations
6. Arbitrage Pricing Theory — multi‑factor asset pricing model
7. Asymmetric Information — uneven access to information
8. Backdoor Listing — going public via acquisition
9. Backwardation — futures price below spot
10. Basel III Capital Buffer — regulatory capital requirement
11. Beta Slippage — leveraged ETF performance drift
12. Black–Scholes Greeks — sensitivities of option pricing
13. Bond Convexity — curvature of price–yield relationship
14. Bootstrapping Curve — constructing zero‑coupon curve
15. Breakage Income — revenue from unused obligations
16. Bucket Shop — fraudulent pseudo‑brokerage
17. Capital Structure Arbitrage — exploiting mispricing across debt/equity
18. Carry Trade — borrowing low, investing high
19. Cash Sweep — automatic debt repayment
20. Chasing Yield — taking excess risk for return
21. Chinese Wall — information barrier in firms
22. Clawback Provision — reclaiming compensation
23. Cloaking Transaction — disguising beneficial ownership
24. CoCo Bond — converts under stress
25. Contango — futures price above spot
26. Credit Default Swap — insurance on credit events
27. Credit Migration — movement between credit ratings
28. Cross‑Collateralization — multiple loans secured by same assets
29. Dark Pool — private trading venue
30. Dead Cat Bounce — temporary rebound in downtrend
31. Delta Hedging — neutralizing directional risk
32. Dilution Overhang — potential share dilution
33. Disintermediation — bypassing financial intermediaries
34. Dividend Recap — debt‑funded dividend payout
35. Duration Gap — mismatch in asset/liability duration
36. Earnings Management — manipulating reported earnings
37. Economic Moat — durable competitive advantage
38. Effective Duration — interest‑rate sensitivity with embedded options
39. Embedded Derivative — derivative inside a host contract
40. Endogenous Risk — risk created within system
41. Enterprise Value — total firm valuation metric
42. Equity Carve‑Out — partial IPO of subsidiary
43. Event‑Driven Strategy — trading around corporate events
44. Excess Spread — difference between asset and liability yields
45. Exchange‑For‑Physical — futures/physical swap
46. Factor Loading — sensitivity to risk factors
47. Fair Value Gap — imbalance between buyers/sellers
48. Financial Repression — policies keeping rates artificially low
49. Fire Sale Discount — distressed forced‑sale pricing
50. Forward Guidance — central bank signaling
51. Gamma Squeeze — rapid price acceleration from hedging
52. Giffen Good — demand rises with price
53. Goodwill Impairment — write‑down of intangible value
54. Haircut — collateral value reduction
55. Hard Call Protection — limits issuer’s ability to redeem
56. Hedge Ratio — proportion needed to hedge
57. High‑Water Mark — performance fee threshold
58. Implied Volatility Smile — pattern in option IV
59. Inverted Yield Curve — short‑term rates above long‑term
60. Junk Spread — high‑yield bond risk premium
61. Kurtosis Risk — fat‑tail distribution exposure
62. Laddered Portfolio — staggered maturity structure
63. Lagged Beta — delayed market sensitivity
64. Liar Loan — low‑documentation mortgage
65. Liquidity Trap — monetary policy ineffectiveness
66. Living Will — resolution plan for banks
67. Loss Given Default — expected loss severity
68. Macroprudential Policy — systemic risk regulation
69. Mark‑to‑Model — valuation using internal models
70. Market Microstructure — study of trading mechanics
71. Mezzanine Financing — hybrid debt/equity capital
72. Minsky Moment — sudden collapse after speculation
73. Monte Carlo Simulation — probabilistic modeling
74. Moral Hazard — risk‑taking due to insulation
75. Negative Convexity — price sensitivity worsens as yields fall
76. Negative Gamma — adverse hedging exposure
77. Nominal Anchor — policy variable guiding expectations
78. Notional Amount — reference value for derivatives
79. Off‑Balance‑Sheet Financing — obligations not recorded on balance sheet
80. Open Interest — outstanding derivative contracts
81. Option Skew — asymmetry in implied volatility
82. Overcollateralization — extra collateral for credit support
83. Overhang Risk — supply pressure from future issuance
84. Pari Passu — equal treatment of creditors
85. Payment‑In‑Kind Note — interest paid with more debt
86. Phantom Income — taxable income without cash
87. Poison Pill — anti‑takeover mechanism
88. Ponzi Finance — debt paid only via new borrowing
89. Quantitative Tightening — shrinking central bank balance sheet
90. Quasi‑Sovereign Bond — issued by state‑linked entities
91. Recourse Loan — lender can pursue borrower assets
92. Refinancing Cliff — large volume of maturing debt
93. Risk Parity — allocating based on risk, not capital
94. Run Rate — extrapolated performance metric
95. Securitization Waterfall — priority of cash flows
96. Sharpe Ratio — risk‑adjusted return measure
97. Sigma Event — extreme statistical outlier
98. Synthetic CDO — derivative‑based credit exposure
99. Tail Hedging — protection against extreme events
100. Term Structure Inversion — yields fall with maturity.

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