Break-even

Break-even (or break even) is a point where any difference between plus or minus or equivalent changes side. A technique for which identifying the point where the total revenue is…

Investing in bonds

  Bonds are bought and traded mostly by institutions like central banks, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, insurance companies and banks. Most individuals who want to own bonds do so…

Assets

Assets — things of value owned by a business. An asset may be a physical property such as a building, or an object such as a stock certificate, or it…

Appreciation

In accounting, ‘appreciation of an asset is an increase in its value. In this sense it is the reverse of depreciation, which measures the fall in value of assets over…

Types of Bond

  The following descriptions are not mutually exclusive, and more than one of them may apply to a particular bond. Fixed rate bonds have a coupon that remains constant throughout…

Amortization

Amortization (or amortisation) is the process of decreasing, or accounting for, an amount over a period. The word comes from Middle English amortisen to kill, alienate in mortmain, from Anglo-French…