List of finance topics
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to finance:
Finance – addresses the ways in which individuals and organizations raise and allocate monetary resources over time, taking into account the risks entailed in their projects.
Contents
- 1 Overview
- 2 Fundamental financial concepts
- 3 History
- 4 Finance terms, by field
- 5 Financial markets
- 5.1 Market and instruments
- 5.2 Equity market
- 5.3 Bond market
- 5.4 Money market
- 5.5 Commodity market
- 5.6 Derivatives market
- 6 Financial regulation
- 7 Actuarial topics
- 8 Asset types
- 9 Raising capital
- 10 Valuation
- 11 Financial software tools
- 12 Financial institutions
- 13 Lists
- 14 See also
- 15 External links
Overview
The word 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
Fundamental financial concepts
- Finance an overview
- Arbitrage
- Capital (economics)
- Capital asset pricing model
- Cash flow
- Cash flow matching
- Debt
- Discounted cash flow
- Financial capital
- Financial modeling
- Entrepreneur
- Fixed income analysis
- Gap financing
- Hedge
- Interest rate
- Short rate model
- Interest
- Investment
- Leverage
- Long (finance)
- Liquidity
- Margin (finance)
- Mark to market
- Market Impact
- Medium of exchange
- Microcredit
- Money creation
- Money
- Portfolio
- Modern portfolio theory
- Mutual fund separation theorem
- Post-modern portfolio theory
- Reference rate
- Return
- Right-financing
- Risk
- Scenario analysis
- Short (finance)
- Speculation
- Position trader
- Spread trade
- Standard of deferred payment
- Store of value
- Time horizon
- Time value of money
- Unit of account
- Volatility
- Yield
- Yield curve
History
- History of banking
- History of insurance
- Tulip mania 1620s/1630s
- South Sea Bubble & Mississippi Company 1710s; see also Stock market bubble
- Vix Pervenit 1745, on usury and other dishonest profit
- 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
- Bretton Woods Accord 1944
- 1973 oil crisis
- 1979 energy crisis
- 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
- Financial crisis of 2007–2010
Finance terms, by field
Accounting (financial record keeping)
- Main articles: Accounting and List of accounting topics
- Auditing
- Accounting software
- Book keeping
- FASB
- Financial accountancy
- Management accounting
- Philosophy of Accounting
- Working capital
Banking
- Anonymous banking
- Automatic teller machine
- Deposit
- Deposit creation multiplier
- Ethical banking
- International Bank Account Number
- Islamic banking
- Loan
- Pre-qualification
- Pre-approval
- Subprime
- Withdrawal
Corporate finance
Main article: Corporate finance
- Balance sheet analysis
- Financial ratio
- Business plan
- Capital budgeting
- Investment policy
- Sources of financing
- The Dividend Policy
- Working capital management
Investment management
- Fund management
Personal finance
Main article: Personal finance
- 529 plan (college savings)
- Asset Allocation
- 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
- Simple living
- Social security
- Tax advantage
- Wealth
- Comparison of accounting software
- Personal financial management
- Investment club
- Collective investment scheme
Public finance
Main article: Public finance
- Central bank
- Federal Reserve
- Fractional-reserve banking
- Tax
- Capital gains tax
- Estate tax (and inheritance tax)
- Gift tax
- Income tax
- Inheritance tax
- Payroll tax
- Property tax (including land value tax)
- Sales tax (including value added tax, excise tax, and use tax)
- Transfer tax (including stamp duty)
- Tax advantage
- Tax, tariff and trade
- Tax amortization benefit
- crowding out
- Industrial policy
- Agricultural policy
- Currency union
- Monetary reform
Insurance
Main article: Insurance
- Actuarial science
- Annuities
- Catastrophe modeling
- Earthquake loss
- Extended coverage
- Insurable interest
- Insurable risk
- Insurance
- Health insurance
- Disability insurance
- Injury cover
- Flexible spending account
- Health savings account
- Long term care insurance
- Medical savings account
- Life insurance
- Property insurance
- Casualty insurance
- Credit insurance
- Reinsurance
- Self insurance
- Travel insurance
- Health insurance
- Insurance contract
- Risk Retention Group
Economics and finance
Mathematics and finance
Time value of money
Main article: Time value of money
Financial mathematics
Main article: Financial mathematics
Mathematical tools
- Stochastic calculus
Derivatives pricing
- Main article: Derivatives pricing
- Options (incl. Real options and ESOs)
- Interest rate derivatives (bond options, swaptions, caps and floors, and others)
- Black model
- Short-rate models (generally applied via lattice based- and specialized simulation-models, although "Black like" formulae exist in some cases.)
- Rendleman-Bartter model
- Vasicek model
- Ho-Lee model
- Hull–White model
- Cox–Ingersoll–Ross model
- Black–Karasinski model
- Black–Derman–Toy model
- Kalotay–Williams–Fabozzi model
- Longstaff–Schwartz model
- Chen model
- Forward rate-based models (Application as per short-rate models)
- LIBOR market model (also called: Brace–Gatarek–Musiela Model, BGM)
- Heath–Jarrow–Morton Model (HJM)
Constraint finance
- Environmental finance
- Feminist economics
- Green economics
- Islamic economics
- Uneconomic growth
- Value of Earth
- Value of life
Virtual finance
Financial markets
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
- Value Line Composite Index
Equity market
Main article: 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
Equity valuation
Main article: Equity valuation
- Dow Theory
- Elliott Wave Theory
- Economic value added
- Fibonacci retracement
- 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
Investment theory
Main article: 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 analysis (finance)
- Statistical arbitrage
Bond market
Main article: Bond market
- Bond (finance)
- Zero-coupon bond
- Junk bonds
- Convertible bond
- Accrual bond
- Municipal bond
- Sovereign bond
- Bond valuation
- Fixed income
Money market
Main article: Money market
- Repurchase agreement
- International Money Market
- Currency
- Exchange rate
- International currency codes
- Table of historical exchange rates
Commodity market
Main article: 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
- Ownership equity
- Position trader
- Risk (Futures)
- Seasonal traders
- Seasonal spread trading
- Slippage
- Speculation
- Spread trade
- Technical analysis
- Trade
- Trend
Derivatives market
Main article: Derivatives market
- Derivative (finance)
- (see also Financial mathematics topics; Derivatives pricing)
- Underlying instrument
Forward markets and contracts
Main article: Forward market
Futures markets and contracts
Main article: Futures market
- Backwardation
- Contango
- Futures contract
- Currency futures
- Financial futures
- Interest rate futures
- Futures exchange
Option markets and contracts
Main article: Option market
- Options
- Stock option
- Warrants
- Foreign exchange option
- Interest rate options
- Bond options
- Real options
- Options on futures
Swap markets and contracts
Main article: Swap market
- see: w:Swap (finance)
Derivative markets by underlyings
Equity derivatives
Main article: Equity derivative
- Contract for difference (CFD)
- Exchange-traded fund (ETF)
- Equity options
- Equity swap
- Real estate investment trust (REIT)
- Warrants
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
Credit derivatives
Main article: Credit derivative
- Credit default swap
- Collateralized debt obligation
- Credit default option
- Total return swap
- Securitization
Foreign exchange derivative
Main article: Foreign exchange derivative
- Foreign exchange option
- Currency future
- Forex swap
- Foreign exchange hedge
- Binary option: Foreign exchange
Financial regulation
Designations and accreditation
- Certified Financial Planner
- Chartered Financial Analyst
- Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst
- Professional Risk Manager
- Chartered Financial Consultant
- Canadian Securities Institute
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Financial Risk Manager
- Chartered Accountant
Litigation
Fraud
Industry bodies
Regulatory bodies
- Main article List of financial regulatory authorities by country
International
- Bank for International Settlements
- International Organization of Securities Commissions
- Security Commission
- Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
- Basel Accords – Basel I, Basel II
- International Association of Insurance Supervisors
- International Accounting Standards Board
European Union
Regulatory bodies by country
United Kingdom
United States
- Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Federal Reserve
- Federal Trade Commission
- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
- Securities and Exchange Commission
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
Actuarial topics
Asset types
Raising capital
Valuation
- Value (economics)
- Fair value
- Intrinsic value
- "The Theory of Investment Value"
- Tax amortization benefit
Discounted cash flow valuation
Main article: Discounted cash flow
- Cash flow
- Time value of money
- Bond valuation
- Equity valuation
- Equivalent Annual Cost
- Net present value
- Discount rate
- Fundamental analysis
- Stock valuation
- Business valuation
- The investment decision
- Dividend discount model
- Market value added / Economic value added
- Adjusted present value
- Residual Income Valuation
- Real estate
Relative valuation
Main article: Relative valuation
- Dividend yield
- Financial ratio
- Market-based valuation
- PE ratio
- Relative valuation
- Stock image
- Stock profile
Contingent claim valuation
- See derivatives pricing below.
Financial software tools
- Straight Through Processing Software
- Technical Analysis Software
- Algorithmic trading
- List of numerical analysis software
- Comparison of numerical analysis software
Financial institutions
- Bank
- List of banks
- Advising bank
- Central bank
- Commercial bank
- Community development bank
- Cooperative bank
- Custodian bank
- Depository bank
- Ethical 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
- Broker
- 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
- Government sponsored enterprise
- Hard money lender
- Independent Financial Adviser
- Industrial loan company
- Insurance company
- Investment adviser
- Investment company
- Investment trust
- Large and Complex Financial Institutions
- Mutual fund
- Non-banking financial company
- Savings and loan association
- Stock exchange
- Trust company
Lists
- Index of accounting articles
- Outline of business management
- Outline of marketing
- Outline of economics
- Outline of production
- List of international trade topics
- List of business law topics
- List of business theorists
See also
External links
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- For the law of the financial markets see SECLaw.com
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