Investment terms starting with M

9 terms

1. Market Value The price that the market - any market - sets at a particular time as the price at which an asset can be bought or sold.
2. Marking to Market Process of determining the value of an asset based upon the going market rate for like assets on any given day.
3. Maturity Date ​The date as of which the principal of and interest on a security become due and payable.
4. Modified Duration The weighted average time to receipt of all cashflows, including coupon payments, on a present value basis.
5. Money Market Fund An open-ended mutual fund that invests in short-term debts and monetary instruments such as Treasury bills and pays money market rates of interest.
6. Moody's Corporate Ratings Moody's ratings provide investors with a simple system of gradation by which the relative investment qualities of a bond may be noted.
7. Moody's Investors Service A financial services company that is one of the best known bond rating agencies in the country.
8. Moody's Short-term Debt Ratings Moody's short-term debt ratings are opinions of the ability of issuers to repay punctually senior debt obligations.
9. Mortgage-backed Security Ownership claim in a pool of mortgages or an obligation that is secured by such a pool.