Terms beginning with V

• Valuation
  The value or worth of a portfolio of investments (or an asset or company) recorded on a statement. A valuation will normally be partially su...(Read more)
• Value
  The worth or desirability of something expressed as an amount of money....(Read more)
• Value Added Tax
  An indirect tax levied on goods and services at each stage of production in many countries. A company or trader registered for VAT pays its ...(Read more)
• Value At Risk
  The maximum percentage of value likely to be gained or lost as the result of normal price movement, typically over one day....(Read more)
• Value Date
  The date on which a security is settled following a trade....(Read more)
• Value Investing
  Value investing is something of a misnomer in many ways as investors would not knowingly buy shares in a company unless they thought that th...(Read more)
• Valued Policy
  An insurance policy in which the value of the insured item is defined and agreed at the commencement of the policy. In the event of a total...(Read more)
• Vanilla
  The term Ð derived from vanilla or plain ice cream Ð is applied to a bond or other security that has no unusual features, paying interest ...(Read more)
• Variable Annuity
  See: 'annuity'....(Read more)
• Variable Cost
  A producers cost that varies as production varies, in contrast to fixed costs. Rent is an example of a fixed cost and raw materials of a var...(Read more)
• Variable Interest Rate
  Interest rates offered by banks and financial institutions on loans or deposits that are liable to change according to circumstances. For ex...(Read more)
• Variable Life Insurance
  A form of cash value life insurance in which the cash value of the policy is determined by the performance of the underlying investment, in ...(Read more)
• Variable Rate Certificate
  A certificate of deposit whose interest rate varies and is dependent on an influence such as prime rate....(Read more)
• Variable Rate Mortgage
  A mortgage where the interest rate is not fixed and which is dependent on influences such as long or short-term interest rates, for example ...(Read more)
• Variance
  Statistically, it is a measure of the average distance between each set of data points and their mean value, equal to the sum of the squares...(Read more)