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Venture Capital Fund

A Venture Capital Fund (VCF) is a pooled investment vehicle that provides financing to early-stage, high-potential, and innovative start-up companies in exchange for equity or ownership interest. Venture...

December 21, 2010

Venture Capital

Venture capital (VC) refers to a form of private equity financing provided by investors to start-ups and emerging companies that possess high growth potential but also involve substantial...

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

A unit of trading refers to the standardised quantity of a financial instrument that serves as the basic measure for buying or selling on an organised market. It...

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

An underwriter is a professional or institution that evaluates and assumes financial risk on behalf of another party, usually for a fee or commission. The term is widely...

December 20, 2010

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