TRANCHES
Part, piece, portion, or slice of a transaction or structured financing. It refers to one of the numerous securities offered at the same time but have various rewards, risks, and/or maturities. Tranche is a French term for slice.
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Flat Tax
It is a system that applies the same rate to all taxpayers regardless of their income bracket.
Adjusted Mean
Statistical averages that are fixed accordingly intended to catch up on imbalances on the data. Outliers, visible in the data sets will most likely ...
Civil Service Retirement System - CSRS
System establishing the retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for certain Federal employees. The Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) ...
The Conference Board
Nonprofit business organization researching, collating, and distributing information on management and the marketplace. A widely quoted private sou ...
Financial Economics
A branch of economics that analyzes the use and distribution of resources in markets in which decisions are made under uncertainty. Financial decis ...
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