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Venture Capital Fund

A fund established in the form of a trust or a company including a body corporate and registered under the SEBI venture capital fund regulations which – has...

December 21, 2010

Venture Capital

Professional moneys co-invested with the entrepreneur usually to fund an early stage, more risky venture. Offsetting the high risk is the promise of higher return that the investor...

December 21, 2010

Vanishing companies

Companies which have not complied with specific provisions of the listing agreement and regulations of the stock exchanges, and are not physically traceable at the registered address mentioned...

December 21, 2010

Value at Risk (VAR)

VAR is the maximum loss over a target horizon such that there is a low, prespecified probability that the actual loss will be larger.

December 21, 2010

Upstairs market

A network of trading desks for the major brokerage firms and institutional investors that communicate with each other by means of electronic display systems and telephones to facilitate...

December 21, 2010

Unsystematic Risk

Also called the diversifiable risk, residual risk, or company-specific risk, the risk that is unique to a company such as a strike, the outcome of unfavourable litigation, or...

December 21, 2010

Unmatched Transactions

A check is carried out to find out whether the purchases and sales as reported by the members match. A list of those transactions which do not match...

December 21, 2010

Unit of trading

The minimum number of shares of a company which are accepted for normal trading on the stock exchange. All transactions are generally done in multiple of trading units....

December 20, 2010

Underwriting

An agreement with or without conditions to subscribe to the securities of a body corporate when the existing shareholders of such body corporate or the public do not...

December 20, 2010

Underwriter

One who does underwriting. A financial organization that handles sales of new securities which a company or municipality wishes to sell in order to raise money. Typically the...

December 20, 2010

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