
Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group
Greater Atlanta Area

Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group
Greater Atlanta Area
Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group is fully committed to help educate you in the world of in finance. With that being said, listed below is some terms for you to get familiar with that will provide you more confidence in understanding finance terminology.
Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group will be providing numerous updates in the following days with more terms to help provide an education with financial terms.
Accrued interest
Interest that has accumulated on an investment but has not yet been paid to you. Accrued interest is often factored into the price if you buy or sell an investment before it matures.
American Depository Receipt (ADR)
A security created by a U.S. bank that evidences ownership to a specified number of shares of a foreign security held in a depository in the issuing company's country of domicile. The certificate, transfer and settlement practices for ADRs are identical to those for U.S. securities. U.S. investors often prefer ADRs to direct purchase of foreign shares because of the ready availability of price information, lower transaction costs and timely dividend distribution, Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group
The American Stock Exchange introduced a new AMEX Composite Index with a new ticker symbol, XAX, on January 2, 1997. The XAX is a market capitalization-weighted, price appreciation index, and replaces the AMEX Market Value Index (XAM) which, since its inception, has been calculated on a total return basis to include the reinvestment of dividends paid by AMEX companies. The new AMEX Composite Index is more comparable with other major indexes, which reflect only the price appreciation of their respective components.
Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group is fully committed to help educate you in the world of in finance. With that being said, listed below is some terms for you to get familiar with that will provide you more confidence in understanding finance terminology. Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group will be providing numerous updates in the following days with more terms to help provide an education with financial terms.
Alpha
A measure of selection risk (also known as residual risk) of a mutual fund in relation to the market. A positive alpha is the extra return awarded to the investor for taking a risk, instead of accepting the market return. For example, an alpha of 0.4 means the fund outperformed the market-based return estimate by 0.4%. 0.6 means a fund's monthly return was 0.6% less than would have been predicted from the change in the market alone.
American Depository Receipt (ADR)
A security created by a U.S. bank that evidences ownership to a specified number of shares of a foreign security held in a depository in the issuing company's country of domicile. The certificate, transfer and settlement practices for ADRs are identical to those for U.S. securities. U.S. investors often prefer ADRs to direct purchase of foreign shares because of the ready availability of price information, lower transaction costs and timely dividend distribution, Baylor Byrnes Brackman Group.
AMEX
American Stock Exchange
AMEX Composite Index
The American Stock Exchange introduced a new AMEX Composite Index with a new ticker symbol, XAX, on January 2, 1997. The XAX is a market capitalization-weighted, price appreciation index, and replaces the AMEX Market Value Index (XAM) which, since its inception, has been calculated on a total return basis to include the reinvestment of dividends paid by AMEX companies. The new AMEX Composite Index is more comparable with other major indexes, which reflect only the price appreciation of their respective components.
Annual report
The formal report on a company's finances and operations sent to all owners of shares in the company. It discloses the company's business activity during the year.
Annuity
A type of investment contract that pays you regular income, usually after retirement.