Investor Relations Terms

  1. Leadership

  2. Legend

  3. Majority Shareholder

  4. Management And Employee Buyout - MEBO

  5. Management Buyout - MBO

  6. Management Discussion and Analysis - MD&A

  7. Management Risk

  8. Market Discipline

  9. Market Letter

  10. Market-Based Corporate Governance System

  11. Marketing Campaign

  12. Material Amount

  13. Material Insider Information

  14. MBIA Insurance Corporation

  15. Media Kit

  16. Mindshare

  17. Minority Interest

  18. Modified Following

  19. Monetary Aggregates

  20. Moody's Analytics

  21. Moody's Bond Survey

  22. Moratorium

  23. Multiple Capital Structure

  24. Munifacts

  25. National Retail Federation - NRF

  26. Negative Pledge Clause

  27. Negative Watch

  28. New Indications

  29. Nigerian Barge Deal

  30. Nomination Committee

  31. Non-Member Trader

  32. Nonprofit Marketing

  33. North American Securities Administrators Association - NASAA

  34. NYSE Amex Equities

  35. Off-Floor Order

  36. Open Offer

  37. Open-End Indenture

  38. Operating Cash Flow Margin

  39. Option Disclosure Document

  40. Option Schedule

  41. Options Price Reporting Authority - OPRA

  42. Organizational Behavior - OB

  43. Origination Points

  44. Osborning

  45. Outside Director

  46. Oversubscription Privilege

  47. Pac-Man

  48. Paid-Up Capital

  49. Parking Violation

  50. Participating Preferred Stock

  51. People Pill

  52. Performance Shares

  53. Performance-Based Index

  54. Perp Walk

  55. Personal Financial Advisor

  56. Phantom Stock Plan

  57. Poison Pill

  58. Pooling Of Interests

  59. Poop

  60. Preliminary Prospectus

  61. Press Conference

  62. Press Release

  63. Private Company

  64. Privatization

  65. Pro Forma

  66. Pro-Forma Earnings

  67. Product Placement

  68. Product Recall

  69. Profit Warning

  70. Profit-Sharing Plan

  71. Promissory Estoppel

  72. Proration

  73. Provision

  74. Proxy

  75. Proxy Fight

  76. Proxy Materials

  77. Proxy Statement

  78. Prudent Investor Rule

  79. Public Offering

  80. Purchase Acquisition

  81. Purchase Fund

  82. Red Chip

  83. Registrar

  84. Related-Party Transaction

  85. Relisted

  86. Retirement Planner

  87. Rio Hedge

  88. Rule 10b-18

  89. Russia ETF

  90. Safekeeping Certificate

  91. Sarbanes-Oxley Act Of 2002 - SOX

  92. Schedule 13D

  93. Schedule 13G

  94. SEC Form 10-KT

  95. SEC Form 10-KT405

  96. SEC Form 17-H

  97. SEC Form 20-F

  98. SEC Form 424B2

  99. SEC Form 424B3

  100. SEC Form 424B4

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