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Financial Terms & Definitions
If talking about finances feels like trying to learn a foreign language, we're here to help. As your trusted financial planners and investment managers, we want you to understand the terms, acronyms, and jargon that may arise during your financial journey.
From Amortization to Zero-Coupon, we've got you covered.
Here's our glossary of financial terms in alphabetical order to get you started.

Alpha

An investment’s return in excess of the market’s return over a specific period of time. Quantifies the investment’s ability to beat the market, as measured by a particular index or benchmark. Alpha can be positive, indicating that the investment added value on top of the market’s return, or negative, indicating that the strategy detracted value from the market’s return. Simply calculated by subtracting the market’s return (as proxied by an index) from the investment’s return over the applicable period of time. More complex measures of alpha that adjust for the riskiness of the investment relative to the riskiness of the market can also be calculated.

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