Topics in finance include:

[edit] Fundamental financial concepts

• Finance an overview
  • Arbitrage
  • Capital (economics)
  • Capital asset pricing model
  • Cash flow
  • Cash flow matching
  • Debt
    • Default
    • Consumer debt
    • Debt consolidation
    • Debt settlement
    • Credit counseling
    • Bankruptcy
    • Debt diet
    • Debt-snowball method
  • Discounted cash flow
  • Financial capital
    • Funding
  • Financial modeling
  • Entrepreneur
    • Entrepreneurship
  • Fixed income analysis
  • Gap financing
  • Hedge
    • Basis risk
  • Interest rate
    • Risk-free interest rate
    • Term structure of interest rates
  • Short rate model
  • Interest
    • Effective interest rate
    • Nominal interest rate
    • Interest rate basis
    • Fisher equation
    • Crowding out
    • Annual percentage rate
    • Interest coverage ratio
  • Investment
    • Foreign direct investment
    • Gold as an investment
    • Over-investing
  • Leverage
  • Locked-in value
  • Long (finance)
  • Liquidity
  • Margin (finance)
  • Mark to future
  • Mark to market
  • Market Impact
  • Medium of exchange
  • Microcredit
  • Money
    • Currency
    • Coin
    • Banknote
    • Counterfeit
  • Portfolio
    • Modern portfolio theory
  • Reference rate
    • Reset
  • Return
    • Absolute return
    • Investment performance
    • Relative return
  • Right-financing
  • Risk
    • Risk management
    • Risk measure
      • Coherent risk measure
      • Spectral risk measure
      • Value at Risk
  • Scenario analysis
  • Short (finance)
  • Speculation
    • Day trading
  • Position trader
  • Spread
  • Standard of deferred payment
  • Store of value
  • Time horizon
  • Time value of money
    • Discounting
    • Present value
    • Future value
    • Net present value
    • Internal rate of return
    • Modified internal rate of return
    • Annuity
    • Perpetuity
  • Unit of account
  • Volatility
  • Yield
  • Yield curve

[edit] Accounting (financial records)

• Accounting
• List of accounting topics
• Financial accountancy
  • Financial statements
    • Balance sheet
    • Cash flow statement
    • Income statement
• Auditing
• Management accounting
• Accounting software

[edit] Actuarial topics

• Actuarial topics

[edit] Institutional setting

[edit] Financial services companies

Financial institutions

• Bank
  • List of banks
    • List of banks in Canada
    • List of banks in Hong Kong
    • List of banks in Singapore
    • List of bank mergers in United States
  • Advising bank
  • Central bank
    • List of central banks
  • Commercial bank
  • Community development bank
  • Cooperative bank
  • Custodian bank
  • Depository bank
  • Investment bank
  • Islamic banking
  • Merchant bank
  • Microcredit
  • Mutual bank
  • Mutual savings bank
  • National bank
  • Offshore bank
  • Private bank
  • Savings bank
  • Swiss bank
• Bank holding company
• Building society
• Clearing house
• Commercial lender
• Community development financial institution
• Credit rating agency
• Credit union
• Diversified financial
• Edge Act Corporation
• Export Credit Agencies
• Financial adviser
• Financial intermediary
• Financial planner
• Futures exchange
  • List of futures exchanges
• Government sponsored enterprise
• Hard money lender
• Independent Financial Adviser
• Industrial loan company
• Insurance regulatory
• Insurance company
• Investment adviser
• Investment company
• Investment trust
• Large and Complex Financial Institutions
• Mutual fund
• Non-banking financial company
• Prime brokerage
• Retail broker
• Savings and loan association
• Stock broker
• Stock exchange
  • List of stock exchanges
• Trust company

[edit] Banking terms

• Anonymous banking
• Automatic teller machine
• Deposit
• Deposit creation multiplier
• Loan
  • Pre-qualification
  • Pre-approval
  • Subprime
• Withdrawal

[edit] Financial regulation

• Corporate governance

• Financial regulation
  • Bank regulation
    • Banking license

[edit] Designations and accreditation

• Certified Financial Planner
• Chartered Financial Analyst
  • CFA Institute
• Chartered Financial Consultant
• Canadian Securities Institute
• Independent Financial Adviser
  • Chartered Insurance Institute
• Financial Risk Manager
• Chartered Accountant

[edit] Fraud

• Forex scam
• Insider trading
• Legal origins theory
• Petition mill
• Ponzi scheme

[edit] Industry bodies

• International Swaps and Derivatives Association
• National Association of Securities Dealers

[edit] Regulatory bodies

• Autorité des marchés financiers
• Bank for International Settlements
• Canadian securities regulation

[edit] United Kingdom

• Financial Services Authority (UK)

[edit] European Union

• European Securities Committee (EU)
• Committee of European Securities Regulators (EU)

[edit] United States

• Commodity Futures Trading Commission (U.S.)
• Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (US)
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (US)
• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

[edit] United States legislation

• Glass-Steagall Act (US)
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (US)
• Sarbanes-Oxley Act (US)
• Securities Act of 1933 (US)
• Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (US)
• Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (US)
• USA PATRIOT Act

[edit] Financial markets

[edit] Market and instruments

• Capital markets
• Securities
• Financial markets
• Primary market
• Initial public offering
• Aftermarket
• Free market
• Bull market
• Bear market
• Bear market rally
• Market maker
• Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Nasdaq
• List of stock exchanges
• List of stock market indices
• List of corporations by market capitalization

[edit] Equity market

• Stock market
• Stock
• Common stock
• Preferred stock
• Treasury stock
• Equity investment
• Index investing
• Private Equity
• Financial reports and statements
• Fundamental analysis
• Dividend
• Dividend yield
• Stock split

[edit] Equity valuation

• Dow Theory
• Elliott Wave Theory
• Economic value added
• Gordon model
• Growth stock
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Leveraged buyout
• Takeover
• Corporate raid
• PE ratio
• Market capitalization
• Income per share
• Stock valuation
• Technical analysis
• Chart patterns
• V-trend

[edit] Investment theory

• Behavioral finance
• Dead cat bounce
• Efficient market hypothesis
• Market microstructure
• Stock market crash
• Stock market bubble
• January effect
• Mark Twain effect
• Quantitative behavioral finance
• Quantitative analyst
• Statistical arbitrage

[edit] Bond market

• Bond (finance)
• Zero coupon bond
• Junk bonds
• Convertible bond
• Accrual bond
• Municipal bond
• Sovereign bond
• Bond valuation
  • Yield to maturity
  • Bond duration
  • Bond convexity
• Fixed income

[edit] Money market

• Repurchase agreement
• International Money Market
• Currency
• Exchange rate
• International currency codes
• Table of historical exchange rates

[edit] Commodity market

• Commodity
  • Asset
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  • Day trading
  • Drawdowns
  • Forfaiting
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Futures contract
  • Fungibility
  • Gold as an investment
  • Hedging
  • Jesse Lauriston Livermore
  • List of traded commodities
  • MACD
  • Ownership equity
  • Position trader
  • Risk (Futures)
  • Seasonal traders
  • Seasonal spread trading
  • Slippage
  • Speculation
  • Spread
  • Technical analysis
    • Breakout
    • Bear market
    • Bottom (technical analysis)
    • Bull market
    • Moving average
    • Open Interest
    • Parabolic SAR
    • Point and figure charts
    • Resistance
    • RSI
    • Stochastic oscillator
    • Stop loss
    • Support
    • Top (technical analysis)
  • Trade
  • Trend

[edit] Derivatives market

• Derivative (finance)
• (see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
• Underlying instrument

[edit] Forward markets and contracts

• Forward contract

[edit] Futures markets and contracts

• Backwardation
• Contango
• Futures contract
  • Currency future
  • Financial future
  • Interest rate future
  • Futures exchange

[edit] Option markets and contracts

• Options
  • Stock option
    • Box spread
    • Call option
    • Put option
    • Strike price
    • Put-call parity
    • The Greeks
    • Black-Scholes formula
    • Black model
    • Binomial options model
    • Implied volatility
    • Option time value
    • Moneyness
      • At-the-money
      • In-the-money
      • Out-of-the-money
    • Straddle
    • Option style
      • Vanilla option
      • Exotic option
      • Binary option
      • European option
        • Interest rate floor
        • Interest rate cap
      • Bermudan option
      • American option
      • Quanto option
      • Asian option
    • Employee stock option
  • Warrants
  • Foreign exchange option
  • Interest rate options
  • Bond options
  • Real options
  • Options on futures

[edit] Swap markets and contracts

• Swap (finance)
  • Interest rate swap
  • Basis swap
  • Stock swap
  • Equity swaps
  • Currency swap
  • Variance swap

see: w:Swap (finance)

[edit] Derivative markets by underlyings

[edit] Equity derivatives

• Accelerated Market Participation Securities (AMPS)
• Accelerated Return Equity Securities (ARES)
• Asset Return Obligation Securities (ASTROS)
• Automatic Common Exchange Securities (ACES)
• Basket Adjusting Structured Equity Securities (BASES)
• Basket Opportunity Exchangeable Securities (BOXES)
• Bifurcated Option Note Unit Securities (BONUSES)
• Broad Index Guarded Equity-Linked Securities (BRIDGES)
• Canadian Originated Preferred Securities (COPrS)
• Closed-end fund
• Commodity-Indexed Preferred Securities (ComPS)
• Common-Linked Higher Income Participation Securities (CHIPS)
• Common stock
• Convertible Contingent Debt Securities (CODES)
• Corporate-Backed Trust Securities (CorTS)
• Corporate Obligation Basket Listed Trust Securities (COBALTS)
• Currency Protected Notes (CPNS), (SPNS)
• Currency Protected Securities (CPS)
• Customized Upside Basket Securities (CUBS)
• Debt Exchangeable for Common Stock (DECS)
• Equity Growth Long-Term Strategy (EGLS)
• Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (ELKS)
• Enhanced Income Securities (EISs)
• Enhanced Stock Index Growth Notes (E-SIGNS)
• Equity Providing Preferred Income Convertible Securities (EPPICS)
• Exchange Preferred Income Cumulative Shares (EPICS)
• Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
• Exchangeable Capital Units (ExCaps)
• Foreign Currency Return Notes (FORENS)
• Global Bond Linked Securities (GLOBELS)
• Hybrid Income Securities Units (HITS)
• Income Deposit Securities (IDS)
• Inverse exchange-traded fund
• Leading Stockmarket Return Securities (LASERS)
• Leveraged Upside Indexed Accelerated Return Securities (LUNARS)
• Liquid Yield Option Notes (Zero Cupon) (LYONS)
• Mandatorily Exchangeable Debt Securities MEDS)
• Mandatory Adjustable Redeemable Convertible Securities (MARCS)
• Market Index Target Term Securities (MITTS)
• Market Participation Securities (MPS)
• Medium Term Equity Related Investment Securities (MERITS)
• Monthly Income Debt Securities (MIDS)
• Monthly Income Preferred Securities (MIPS)
• Participating Index Notes (PINS)
• Performance Equity-Linked Redemption Quarterly Pay Securities (PERQS)
• Performance Equity-Return Linked Securities (PERKS)
• Performance Leveraged Upside Securities (PLUS)
• Principal Accruing Enhanced Return Securities (PACERS)
• Preferred Equity Redemption Cumulative Stock (PERCS)
• Preferred Income Equity Redeemable Shares (PIERS)
• Preferred Redeemable Increased Dividend Equity Securities (PRIDES)
• Preferred stock
• Premium Equity Participating Securities (PEPS)
• Premium Income Equity Securities (PIES)
• Protected Exchangeable Equity-Linked Securities (PEEQS)
• Protected Growth Securities (ProGroS)
• Protected Performance Equity Linked Securities (PROPELS)
• Public Credit & Repackaged Securities (PCARS)
• Public Income Notes (PINES)
• Putable Automatic Rate Reset Securities (PARRS)
• Quarterly Income Capital Securities (QUICS)
• Quarterly Income Debt Securities (QUIDS)
• Quarterly Income Preferred Securities (QUIPS)
• Quarterly Interest Bond (QUIB)
• Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
• Reset Put Securities (REPS)
• Return Enhanced Convertible Securities (RECONS)
• Rights
• Risk Adjusting Equity Range Securities (RANGERS)
• Secure Principal Energy Receipts (SPERS)
• Select Equity Indexed Notes (SEQUINS)
• Senior Quarterly Income Debt Securities (SQUIDS)
• Shared Preference Redeemable Securities (SpuRS)
• Shares of Beneficial Interest (SBI)
• Step-Up Increasing Redeemable Equity Notes (SIRENS)
• Step-Up REIT Securities (StREITs)
• Stock Appreciation Income-Linked Securities (SAILS)
• Stock market Annual Reset Term (Notes) (SMART)
• Stock Participation Accreting Redemption Quarterly-pay Securities (SPARQS)
• Stock Return Income Debt Securities (STRIDES)
• Stock Upside Note Securities (SUNS)
• Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackaging (SATURNS)
• Structured Repackaged Asset-Backed Trust Securities (STRATS)
• Structured Yield Product Exchangeable for Common Stock (STRYPES)
• Subordinated Capital Income Securities (SKIS)
• Target Return Investment Growth Securities (TRIGGERS)
• Targeted Efficient Equity Securities (TEES)
• Targeted Growth Enhanced Terms Securities (TARGETS)
• Term Convertible Securities (TECONS)
• Threshold Appreciation Price Securities (TAPS)
• Trust Automatic Common Exchange Securities (TRACES)
• Trust Certificate (TRUC)
• Trust Investment Enhanced Return Securities (TIERS)
• Trust Issued Mandatory Exchange Securities (TIMES)
• Trust Originated Preferred Securities (TOPrS)
• Trust Preferred Stock (TruPs)
• Trust Units Exchangeable for Preference Shares (TrUEPrS)
• Warrants
• Warrants & Income Redeemable Equity Securities (WIRES)
• Yield Enhanced Equity-Linked Debt Securities (YEELDS)
• Yield Enhanced Stock (YES)

[edit] Interest rate derivatives

• Financial future
• LIBOR
• Forward rate agreement
• Interest rate swap
• Interest rate cap
• Exotic interest rate option
• Interest rate swap
  • Swaption

[edit] Credit derivatives

• Credit default swap
• Collateralized debt obligation
• Credit default option
• Total return swap
• Securitization

[edit] Valuation

• Value (economics)
• Fair value

[edit] Discounted cash flow valuation

• Cash flow
  • Operating cash flow
• Time value of money
  • Present value
  • Future value
  • Actualization
  • Discounting
• Bond valuation
  • Yield to maturity
  • Duration
  • Convexity
• Equity valuation
  • Equivalent Annual Cost
  • Net present value
  • Discount rate
    • Capital Asset Pricing Model
    • Arbitrage pricing theory
    • Cost of capital
    • Weighted average cost of capital
  • Fundamental analysis
  • Stock valuation
  • Business valuation
  • The investment decision

[edit] Relative valuation

• Dividend yield
• Financial ratio
• Market-based valuation
• PE ratio
• Relative valuation
• Stock image
• Stock profile

[edit] Contingent claim valuation

See also derivatives pricing

• Rational pricing assumptions
  • Risk neutral valuation
  • Arbitrage free pricing
• Derivatives pricing
  • Futures
    • Futures contract Pricing
  • Options (and Real options)
    • Black-Scholes formula
    • Black model
    • Binomial options model
  • Short-rate models (used in pricing bond options, swaptions and other interest rate derivatives)
    • Rendleman-Bartter model
    • Vasicek model
    • Ho-Lee model
    • Hull-White model
    • Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model
    • Black-Karasinski model
    • Black-Derman-Toy model
    • Longstaff-Schwartz model
    • Chen model

[edit] Corporate finance

• Balance sheet analysis
  • Financial ratio
• Business plan
• Capital budgeting
  • Capital investment decisions
  • The investment decision
    • Business valuation
    • Stock valuation
    • Fundamental analysis
    • Real options
    • Valuation topics
    • Fisher separation theorem
  • The financing decision
    • Capital structure
    • Cost of capital
    • Weighted average cost of capital
    • Modigliani-Miller theorem
  • The Dividend Decision
    • Dividend
    • Dividend tax
    • Dividend yield
    • Modigliani-Miller theorem
• Corporate action
• Managerial finance
  • Management accounting
• Mergers and acquisitions
  • leveraged buyout
  • takeover
  • corporate raid
• Real options
• Return on investment
  • Return on assets
  • Return on equity
  • Return on capital
• Working capital management
  • cash conversion cycle
  • Return on capital
  • Economic value added
  • Just In Time
  • Economic order quantity
  • Discounts and allowances
  • Factoring (trade)

[edit] Investment management

• Fund management
  • Active management
  • Efficient market hypothesis
  • Portfolio
  • Modern portfolio theory
    • Capital asset pricing model
  • Arbitrage pricing theory
  • Passive management
    • Index fund
  • Activist shareholder
  • Mutual fund
    • Open-end fund
    • Closed-end fund
    • List of mutual-fund families
  • Financial engineering
    • Long-Term Capital Management
  • Hedge fund
  • Hedge
• Visualization of Financial Implications

[edit] Personal finance

• 529 plan (college savings)
• Budget
• Coverdell Education Savings Account (Coverdell ESAs, formerly known as Education IRAs)
• Credit & Debt
  • Credit card
  • Debt consolidation
  • Mortgage loan
• Debit card
• Direct deposit
• Employment contract
  • Commission
  • Employee stock option
  • Employee or fringe benefit
  • Health insurance
  • Paycheck
  • Salary
  • Wage
• Financial literacy
• Insurance
• Predatory lending
• Retirement plan
  • 401(a)
  • 401(k)
  • 403(b)
  • 457 plan
  • Individual Retirement Account
    • Roth IRA
    • Traditional IRA
    • SEP IRA
    • SIMPLE IRA
    • Conduit IRA
  • Pension
• Social security
• Tax advantage
• Wealth
• Personal Finance software
  • Comparison of Personal Finance software
• Investment club
• Collective investment scheme
• Car financing

[edit] Public finance

• Central bank
• Federal Reserve
• Fractional-reserve banking
  • Deposit creation multiplier
• Tax
  • Income tax
  • Payroll tax
  • Sales tax
  • Tax advantage
  • Tax, tariff and trade
• crowding out
• Industrial policy
• Agricultural policy
• Currency union
• Monetary reform

[edit] Insurance

• Actuarial science
• Annuities
• Catastrophe modeling
• Earthquake loss
• Extended coverage
• Insurable risk
• Insurance
  • Health insurance
    • Injury cover
    • Disability insurance
    • Flexible spending account
    • Health savings account
    • Long term care insurance
    • Medical savings account
  • Life insurance
    • Life insurance tax shelter
    • Permanent life insurance
    • Term life insurance
    • Universal life insurance
    • Variable universal life insurance
    • Whole life insurance
  • Property insurance
    • Auto insurance
    • Boiler insurance
    • Earthquake insurance
    • Home insurance
    • Title insurance
    • Pet insurance
  • Casualty insurance
    • Business continuation insurance
    • Fidelity bond
    • Liability insurance
      • Personal umbrella liability policy
      • Commercial general liability policy
    • Political risk insurance
    • Surety bond
    • Terrorism insurance
  • Credit insurance
  • Reinsurance
  • Self insurance
  • Travel insurance
• Insurance contract

[edit] Economics and finance

• Economic growth
• Financial economics
• Mathematical economics
• Managerial economics
• Utility theory

[edit] Mathematics and finance

[edit] Time value of money

• Present value
• Future value
• Discounting
• Net present value
• Internal rate of return
• Annuity
• Perpetuity

[edit] Financial mathematics

[edit] Mathematical tools

• Probability
• Probability distribution
  • Binomial distribution
  • Log-normal distribution
• Expected value
• Value at risk
• Risk-neutral measure
• Stochastic calculus
• Brownian motion
• Itô's lemma
• Girsanov's theorem
• Radon-Nikodym derivative
• Monte Carlo methods in finance
• Partial differential equations
  • Heat equation
• Martingale representation theorem
• Feynman-Kac formula
• Dynkin's formula
• Stochastic differential equations
• Volatility
  • ARCH model
  • GARCH model

[edit] Derivatives pricing

• Rational pricing assumptions
  • Risk neutral valuation
  • Arbitrage free pricing
• Futures
  • Futures contract pricing
• Options
  • Black-Scholes formula
  • Black model
  • Binomial options model
  • Implied volatility
  • Historical volatility
  • The Greeks
• Interest rate derivatives
  • Short rate model
    • Vasicek model
    • Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model
    • Hull-White model
    • Chen model
  • Brace-Gatarek-Musiela model
  • Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework

[edit] Constraint finance

• Creditary economics
• Environmental finance
• Feminist economics
• Green economics
• Islamic economics
• Uneconomic growth
• Value of Earth
• Value of life

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