Wash Trading
What is Wash Trading? Wash trading – also referred to as round trip trading – is an illegal practice where investors buy and sell the same financial instruments at the same time in order to manipulate the market. The practice can unnaturally increase the trading volume in order to make the security appear as though...
Constant Weight Asset Allocation
What is Constant Weight Asset Allocation? Constant weight asset allocation can be defined as a type of asset allocation approach in which rebalancing occurs automatically. Several mutual funds permit rebalancing when they are established. For example, if an investor holds a portfolio amounting to about 70% stock in the US and 20% stock on the...
Private Company
What is a Private Company? A private company is owned by either a small number of shareholders, company members, or a non-governmental organization, and it does not offer its stocks for sale to the general public. Instead, its stock is offered, owned, or exchanged privately among a small number of shareholders – or even held...
Professional Corporations
What are Professional Corporations? A professional corporation is a corporation that comprises different types of professionals such as doctors, lawyers, architects, accountants, engineers, psychologists, etc. In most states, professionals who want to incorporate their practice can do so by forming a professional corporation or a professional service corporation. A professional service corporation is different from...
Public Companies
What are Public Companies? Public companies are entities that trade their stocks on the public exchange market. Investors can become shareholders in a public company by purchasing shares of the company’s stock. The company is considered public since any interested investor can purchase shares of the company in the public exchange to become equity owners....
