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• Short-Term Investment Fund — A Short Term Investment Fund is a type of investment fund which invests in money market investments of high quality and low risk. They are commonly used by investors to temporarily store funds while arranging for their transfer to another… …   Wikipedia

• Short-Term Investment Fund - STIF — A type of fund that invests in short term investments of high quality and low risk. The goal of this type of fund is to protect capital with low risk investments while achieving a return that beats a relevant benchmark such as a Treasury bill… …   Investment dictionary

• short-term capital gain — A profit on the sale of a security or mutual fund share that has been held for one year or less. A short term capital gain is taxed as ordinary income. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

• short-term bond fund — A bond mutual fund holding short to intermediate term bonds that have maturities ( maturity) of three to five years. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

• Ultra-Short Bond Fund — A type of bond fund that invests only in fixed income instruments with very short term maturities. An ultra short bond fund will ideally invest in instruments with maturities around one year. This investing strategy tends to offer higher yields… …   Investment dictionary

• ultra-short-term bond fund — A mutual fund that invests in bonds with very short maturity periods, usually one year or less. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary …   Financial and business terms

• Very Short-Term Financing Facility —   A 45 day credit facility provided by the European Monetary Cooperation Fund (EMCF) to Member States requiring support for their currencies …   Glossary of the European Union and European Communities

• fund — A fiscal and accounting entity with a self balancing set of accounts in which cash and other financial resources, all related liabilities and residual equities, or balances, and charges therein, are recorded and segregated to carry on specific… …   Financial and business terms

• Short (finance) — Schematic representation of short selling in two steps. The short seller borrows shares and immediately sells them. He then waits, hoping for the stock price to decrease, when the seller can profit by purchasing the shares to return to the lender …   Wikipedia

• Fund of funds — A fund of funds (FoF) is an investment fund that uses an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in shares, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as… …   Wikipedia

• term — The period of time during which a contract is in force. Bloomberg Financial Dictionary * * * ▪ I. term term 1 [tɜːm ǁ tɜːrm] noun 1. [countable] a word or expression that has a particular meaning, especially in a technical or scientific subject:… …   Financial and business terms