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Marketed Claims
Definition: Claims that can be bought and sold in financial markets, such as those of stockholders and bondholders.
Marketplace Price Efficiency
Definition: The degree to which the prices of assets reflect the available marketplace information. Marketplace price efficiency is sometimes estimated as the difficulty faced by management of earning a greater return than passive management would, after adjusting for the risk associated with a strategy and the transactions costs associated with implementing a strategy.
Marking To Market
Definition: Settling or reconciling changes in the value of futures contracts on a daily basis. Also refers to the practice of reporting the value of assets on a market rather than book value basis.
Marking Up Or Down
Definition: The amount by which a securities dealer raises or lowers the price of a stock or bond due to changes in demand and supply.
Markovian Dependence
Definition: The condition where observations in a time series are dependent on previous observations in the near term. Markovian dependence dies quickly, while long-memory effects like Hurst dependence, decay over very long time periods.
Markowitz Diversification
Definition: A strategy that seeks to combine in a portfolio assets with returns that are less than perfectly positively correlated, in an effort to lower portfolio risk (variance) without sacrificing return. Related: Naive diversification.
Markowitz Efficient Frontier
Definition: The graphical depiction of the Markowitz efficient set of portfolios representing the boundary of the set of feasible portfolios that have the maximum return for a given level of risk. Any portfolios above the frontier cannot be achieved. Any below the frontier are dominated by Markowitz efficient portfolios.
Markowitz Efficient Portfolio
Definition: Also called a mean-variance efficient portfolio, a portfolio that has the highest expected return at a given level of risk.
Markowitz Efficient Set Of Portfolios
Definition: The collection of all efficient portfolios, which can be graphed as the Markowitz efficient frontier.
Markowitz, Harry
Definition: Nobel laureate in economics. Father of portfolio theory.
Marks And Numbers
Definition: Identifying symbols and numbers placed by the shipper on each piece of cargo in a shipment.
Marriage Penalty
Definition: A tax that has the effect of penalizing a married couple because they pay more tax on a joint tax return than they would if they file tax returns individually.
Married Filing Joint Filing Status
Definition: You are married and both you and your spouse agree to file a joint return. (On a joint return, you report your combined income and deduct your combined allowable expenses.)
Married Filing Separate Filing Status
Definition: You must be married. This method may benefit you if you want to be responsible only for your own tax or if this method results in less tax than a joint return. If you and your spouse do not agree to file a joint return, you may have to use this filing status.
Married Put
Definition: A put option bought at the same time as its underlying securities in order to hedge the price paid for the securities.
Married Put Strategy
Definition: A put and stock are considered to be married if they are bought on the same day, and the position is designated at that time as a hedge.
Marrried Put And Stock
Definition: The simultaneous purchase of stock and the corresponding number of put options. This is a limited risk strategy during the life of the puts because the stock can be sold at the strike price of the puts.
Mass Tax
Definition: A broad tax that affects a majority of taxpayers.
Master Air Waybill (MAB)
Definition: A document issued by the originating airline when and if a shipment involves more than one air carrier.
Master Limited Partnership (MLP)
Definition: A publicly traded limited partnership.
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