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Finance
Financial markets Bond market Stock (Equities) Market Foreign exchange market Derivatives market Commodity market Money market Spot (cash) Market OTC market Real Estate market Private equity
Market participants Investors Speculators Institutional Investors
Corporate finance Structured finance Capital budgeting Financial risk management Mergers and Acquisitions Accounting Financial Statements Auditing Credit rating agency Leveraged buyout Venture capital
Personal finance Credit and Debt Employment contract Retirement Financial planning
Public finance Tax Government debt Deficit spending Warrant (of payment)
Banks and banking Fractional-reserve banking Central Bank List of banks Deposits Loan Money supply
Financial regulation Finance designations Accounting scandals
Standards ISO 31000 International Financial Reporting
Economic history Stock market bubble Recession Stock market crash History of private equity
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Finance studies and addresses the ways in which individuals, businesses and organizations raise, allocate and use monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:

1 Essence of finance
2 Branches of finance
3 Fundamental financial concepts
4 History of finance
5 Finance terms, by field
6 Financial markets
7 Financial regulation
8 Actuarial topics
9 Asset types
10 Raising capital
11 Valuation
12 Financial software tools
13 Financial institutions
14 Persons influential in the field of finance
- 14.1 Finance scholars
15 Finance-related lists
16 See also
17 External links

[edit] Essence of finance

The term finance may incorporate any of the following:

The study of money and other assets
The management and control of those assets
Profiling and managing project risks
As a verb, "to finance" is to provide funds for business.

[edit] Branches of finance

[edit] Fundamental financial concepts

Finance an overview

[edit] History of finance

Tulip mania 1620s/1630s
South Sea Bubble & Mississipi Company 1710s; see also Stock market bubble
Panic of 1837
Railway mania 1840s
Erie War 1860s
Long Depression 1873 to 1896
Post-WWI hyperinflation; see Hyperinflation and Inflation in the Weimar Republic
Wall Street Crash 1929
Great Depression 1930s
Oil Shock 1973
1979 energy crisis
Notable Bankrupts
Savings and Loan Crisis 1980s
Black Monday 1987
Asian financial crisis 1990s
Dot-com bubble 1995-2001
Stock market downturn of 2002
United States housing bubble 2001-

[edit] Finance terms, by field

[edit] Accounting (financial record keeping)

Main articles: Accounting and List of accounting topics

[edit] Banking

[edit] Corporate finance

Main article: Corporate finance

[edit] Investment management

[edit] Personal finance

Main article: Personal finance

529 plan (college savings)
Budget
Coverdell Education Savings Account (Coverdell ESAs, formerly known as Education IRAs)
Credit and debt
Debit card
Direct deposit
Employment contract
Financial literacy
Insurance
Predatory lending
Retirement plan
- 401(a)
- 401(k)
- 403(b)
- 457 plan
- Keogh plan
- Individual Retirement Account
- Pension
Social security
Tax advantage
Wealth
Comparison of accounting software
Personal financial management
- Comparison of personal financial management online tools
Investment club
Collective investment scheme
Car financing

[edit] Public finance

Main article: Public finance

[edit] Insurance

Main article: Insurance

[edit] Economics and finance

[edit] Mathematics and finance

[edit] Derivatives pricing

Main article: Derivatives pricing

Rational pricing assumptions
- Risk neutral valuation
- Arbitrage free pricing

Futures
- Futures contract pricing

Options (and Real options)

Swaps
- Swap Valuation

Interest rate derivatives
- Short-rate models (used in pricing bond options, swaptions and other interest rate derivatives)

[edit] Constraint finance

[edit] Virtual finance

Virtual finance

[edit] Financial markets

[edit] Market and instruments

[edit] Equity market

Main article: Equity market

[edit] Equity valuation

Main article: Equity valuation

[edit] Investment theory

Main article: Investment theory

[edit] Bond market

Main article: Bond market

[edit] Money market

Main article: Money market

[edit] Commodity market

Main article: Commodity market

Commodity

[edit] Derivatives market

Main article: Derivatives market

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

[edit] Forward markets and contracts

Main article: Forward market

Forward contract

[edit] Futures markets and contracts

Main article: Futures market

[edit] Option markets and contracts

Main article: Option market

Options

[edit] Swap markets and contracts

Main article: Swap market

Swap (finance)

see: w:Swap (finance)

[edit] Derivative markets by underlyings

[edit] Equity derivatives

Main article: Equity derivative

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

Main article: Interest rate derivative

LIBOR
Forward rate agreement
Interest rate swap
Interest rate cap
Exotic interest rate option
Bond option
Interest rate future
Money market instruments
Range accrual Swaps/Notes/Bonds
In-arrears Swap
Constant maturity swap (CMS) or constant treasury swap (CTS) derivatives (swaps, caps, floors)
Interest rate Swaption
Bermudan swaptions
Cross currency swaptions
Power Reverse Dual Currency note (PRDC or Turbo)
Target redemption note (TARN)
CMS steepener
Snowball
Inverse floater
Strips of Collateralized mortgage obligation
Ratchet caps and floors

[edit] Credit derivatives

Main article: Credit derivative

[edit] Foreign exchange derivative

Main article: Foreign exchange derivative

[edit] Financial regulation

[edit] Designations and accreditation

[edit] Fraud

[edit] Industry bodies

[edit] Regulatory bodies

[edit] United Kingdom

Financial Services Authority (UK)

[edit] European Union

[edit] United States

[edit] United States legislation

[edit] Actuarial topics

Actuarial topics

[edit] Asset types

[edit] Raising capital

Debt
Factor

Securities
- Initial public offering

[edit] Valuation

[edit] Discounted cash flow valuation

Main article: Discounted cash flow

[edit] Relative valuation

[edit] Contingent claim valuation

See derivatives pricing below.

[edit] Financial software tools

[edit] Financial institutions

Financial institutions

[edit] Persons influential in the field of finance

List of corporate leaders

[edit] Finance scholars

List of economists

[edit] Finance-related lists

[edit] See also

Finance portal

Actuarial topics

[edit] External links

Wharton Finance Knowledge Project - aimed to offer free access to finance knowledge for students, teachers, and self-learners.
Comprehensive site about topics of financial theory, with a focus in Corporate Finance, Valuation and Investments. Updated Data, Excel Spreadsheets and more. Prof. Aswath Damodaran
For links to finance web sites, grouped by topic see Web Sites for Discerning Finance Students, Prof. John M. Wachowicz-
For the introductory finance web site at the University of Arizona, studyfinance.com
For introductory articles, a full glossary and links to resources on behavioral finance see the BF gallery
For the law of the financial markets see SECLaw.com
For various shared blog posts on finance see fwisp.com
For stock market related financial definitions see TheStreet.com Glossary
The Finance Director provides access to essential suppliers of financial services and solutions
Middle East Banking & Finance News — ArabianBusiness.com

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