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Earnings Season
200

Starting in 2020, this feature will no longer be available to most non-spouse beneficiaries of IRA assets

"STRETCH" IRA

200

The most widely used interest rate in the world, LIBOR is this city's "Interbank Offered Rate"

LONDON

200

A measure of the approximate sensitivity of a fixed income security to a change in interest rates (i.e., a measure of interest rate risk)

DURATION

200

This athlete said “I play to have fun” after receiving a $30,000 fine for celebrating his touchdown against the Detroit Lions in 2009

CHAD OCHOCINCO

200

An unregulated statement of profit, EBITDA, stands for Earnings Before Interest, Tax, Depreciation and _____.

AMORTIZATION

400

The Social Security Adminsitration defines this amount as "the benefit a person would receive if he/she elects to begin receiving retirement benefits at his/her normal retirement age" 

PRIMARY INSURANCE AMOUNT (PIA)
400

Along with the unemployment rate, this metric measures the percentage of Americans who are in the labor force, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the labor market

LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATE

400

The term "Leveraged Recapitalization" is defined by using borrowed funds to do this

REPURCHASE STOCK

400

This golfer was the first ever to reach $1,000,000 in career earnings

ARNOLD PALMER

400

Retail store earnings metric often measures profitability by: dollar sales / ______

SQUARE FOOT

600

Common in both financial planning and portfolio management, this statistical tool is used to predict the probability of different outcomes when numerous random variables are present by running numerous random samples. Once the simulation is complete, the results are average together to provide an estimate.

MONTE CARLO SIMULATION

600

The idea that exchange rates move to equalize the purchasing power of different currencies

PURCHASING POWER PARITY (PPP)

600

Use this adjusted yield to compare municipal bond returns with those of taxable bonds

TAX-EQUIVALENT YIELD

600
Olympic Women's Gymnastics complete in this many distinct medal events
FOUR
600

Performance metric, "Daily Active Users" may appear on earnings reports of these types of companies

SOCIAL MEDIA/GAMING

800

Due to rising healthcare costs and an inevitably greater need for medical care later in life, this common inflation calculation may be insufficient in the retirement plan assumption

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX (CPI)

800

A seemingly contradictory economic condition described by slow economic growth and relatively high unemployment accompanied by rising prices

STAGFLATION

800

The discount rate at which the present value of an investment's outflows equal to the present value of the investment's inflows; in other words, the discount rate at which Net Present Value (NPV) equals zero

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

800

In 1972, this coach lead the Miami Dolphins to the league’s only complete perfect season

DON SHULA

800

Performance of earlier-stage, growth-oriented companies with little to no earnings is often assesseed by this change in the top line item 

REVENUE GROWTH

1000

This rule allows company stock held within an employer-sponsored retirement plan to be distributed to the plan participant with only the cost basis taxed as income and the capital gains deferred until the shares are ultimately sold 

NET UNREALIZED APPRECIATION (NUA) RULE

1000

A paradox in which currency appreciation driven by strong export demand for resources makes other segments of the economy globally uncompetitive. Named after the discovery of vast oil reserves and resulting subsequent recession in the Netherlands

DUTCH DISEASE

1000

This ratio measures risk-adjusted returns by dividing a stock's (or portfolio's) risk premium (expected return - risk-free rate) by its standard deviation of returns

SHARPE RATIO

1000

Playing for four teams over his twenty-year career in the NHL, Wayne Gretzky, won all four of his Stanley Cups with this team. 

EDMONTON OILERS

1000

The primary sources of bank earnings include net interest income, service/fee income, and this more volatile income type

TRADING INCOME