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Stripped Yield
Definition: Applies mainly to convertible securities. Return on the debt portion of a bond/warrant unit after subtracting the value of the issued warrant segment.
STRIPS (Separate Trading Of Registered Interest And Principal Securities)
Definition: A book-entry system operated by the Federal Reserve permitting separate trading and ownership of the principal and coupon portions of selected Treasury securities. It allows the creation of zero coupon Treasury securities from designated whole bonds.
Strong Currency
Definition: A currency whose value compared to other currencies is improving, as indicated by a decrease in the direct exchange rates for the currency.
Strong Dollar
Definition: When the dollar can be exchanged for a large amount of foreign currency, benefiting travelers but hurting exporters.
Strong Form Of The EMT
Definition: Theory that market prices reflect all relevant publicly and privately available information. Defined by Eugene F. Fama in 1970.
Strong Hands
Definition: When used in connection with delivery of commodities on futures contracts, the term usually means that the party receiving the delivery notice probably will take delivery and retain ownership of the commodity; when used in connection with futures positions, the term usually means positions held by trade interests or well-financed speculators.
Strong-form Efficiency
Definition: A form of pricing efficiency, that posits that the price of a security reflects all information, whether or not it is publicly available. Related: Weak-form efficiency, semi-strong form efficiency.
Structural Adjustment Loan Facility (SAL)
Definition: World Bank program established in 1980 to enhance a country's long-term economic growth through financing projects.
Structure
Definition: The description of how a project financing is drawdown, repaid, and collateralized secured.
Structured Arbitrage Transaction
Definition: A self-funding, self-hedged series of transactions that usually use mortgage-backed securities (MBS), commercial mortgage backed securities, and collateralized debt obligations as the primary assets.
Structured Asset Trust Unit Repackagings
Definition: A synthetic security linked or weak-linked to underlying collateral. Ratings usually reflect the credit quality of the underlying securities.
Structured Debt
Definition: Debt that has been customized for the buyer, often by incorporating unusual options.
Structured Finance
Definition: Often refers to a group within an investment bank that deals with mortgage-backed securities (MBS), commercial mortgage backed securities, and collateralized debt obligations,and real estate.
Structured Note
Definition: A derivative investment that will change in value with movements of an underlying index; or a note whose issuer makes swap arrangements to alter its required cash flows.
Structured Portfolio Strategy
Definition: Designing a portfolio to achieve a level of performance that matches some predetermined liabilities that must be paid out in the future.
Structured Settlement
Definition: An agreement in settlement of a lawsuit involving specific payments made over a period of time. Property and casualty insurance companies often buy life insurance products to pay the costs of such settlements.
Stub
Definition: Often used in risk arbitrage. Piece of equity security left over from a major cash or security distribution from a recapitalization.
Student Loan Marketing Association (SLMA)
Definition: A publicly traded corporation established by federal action that increases availability of educational loans by guaranteeing student loans traded in the secondary market. Also known as Sallie Mae.
Subaccount
Definition: A term used in bookkeeping. For example, the insurance expense account may have various different subcategories such as building and property insurance, auto/fleet insurance, general liability, environmental, professional liability, law enforcement, and other insurance.
Subchapter M
Definition: An IRS regulation dealing with investment companies and real estate investment trusts that avoid double taxation by distributing interest, dividends, and capital gains directly to shareholders, who are taxed individually.
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