Financial and business terms. 2012.
Lehman Aggregate Bond Index — The Lehman Aggregate Bond Index is a broad base index often used to represent investment grade bonds being traded in United States. Index funds and exchange traded funds are available that track this bond index.Managers may often subdivide the… … Wikipedia
Lehman Aggregate Bond Index — An index used by bond funds as a benchmark to measure their relative performance. The index includes government securities, mortgage backed securities, asset backed securities and corporate securities to simulate the universe of bonds in the… … Investment dictionary
Lehman Brothers Asset-Backed Securities Index — A fixed income index that focuses on asset backed securities. The Lehman Brothers Asset Backed Securities Index serves as the performance benchmark for many ABS funds. The index includes pass through, controlled amortization and bullet structured … Investment dictionary
Lehman Brothers Mortgage-Backed Securities Index — An index made up of mortgage backed securities that is used for benchmarking purposes. The Lehman Brothers MBS Index consists of fixed rate securities, such as mortgage pools created by the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), Federal … Investment dictionary
Lehman Brothers Government/Corporate Bond Index — An unmanaged market weighted index, comprised of government and investment grade corporate debt instruments with maturities of one year or greater. The Lehman Brothers Government/Corporate Bond Index is a total return benchmark index for many… … Investment dictionary
Index — A statistical measure of change in an economy or a securities market. In the case of financial markets, an index is an imaginary portfolio of securities representing a particular market or a portion of it. Each index has its own calculation… … Investment dictionary
ING Direct — is a marketing name for a branchless direct bank with operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany (branded ING DiBa ), Austria (branded ING DiBa ), Italy, Japan, Netherlands (branded Postbank ), Spain, United Kingdom and the United States.… … Wikipedia
Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… … Universalium
Subprime mortgage crisis — Part of a series on: Late 2000s financial crisis Major dimensions … Wikipedia
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
