Blog Category: Financial Terms

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Porter’s Five Forces: Analyzing Industry Competition

Learn how to use Porter's Five Forces to evaluate the competitive forces in your industry and develop a winning busin...

Philip Meagher
06 Jan 2023
5 min read

Unlock Competitive Advantage with Value Chain Analysis

Understand how to identify cost savings, differentiate your offerings, and form strategic partnerships through value ...

Philip Meagher
06 Jan 2023
3 min read

SWOT Analysis: A Complete Guide with Examples

Learn how to conduct a SWOT analysis to identify your organisation's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

Philip Meagher
05 Jan 2023
5 min read

How Does Money Laundering Work?

The act of concealing or disguising money's true origin and making it appear as if it is legitimate can be defined as...

Evita Astrid Veigas
02 Dec 2022
3 min read

What is marked to market?

Market to Market is one of the most critical aspects of financial markets these days. By definition, MTM is an accrua...

Owais Siddiqui
31 Oct 2022
3 min read

Ho Lee Model

The Ho-Lee model improves upon the drift to incorporate time-dependency which means that the drift in time 1 will be ...

Owais Siddiqui
31 Oct 2022
3 min read

Basic Indicator Approach

The basic indicator approach, is a set of operational risk monitoring techniques institutions under Basel II capital ...

Owais Siddiqui
31 Oct 2022
2 min read

Knightian Uncertainty

One of the critical aspects of Risk Management is to identify risk. Part of the risk identification process is to fil...

Owais Siddiqui
31 Oct 2022
2 min read

Value at Risk (VaR)

Given a particular likelihood of occurrence, the value at risk (VaR) determines an estimated loss amount at a given c...

Owais Siddiqui
31 Oct 2022
2 min read

Realised Returns

Using the initial investment value and its final value, we can calculate the bond's realised return.This calculation ...

Owais Siddiqui
29 Oct 2022
4 min read

Covariance Stationary

The relationships between its current and previous values stay constant. A time series that is covariance stationary ...

Owais Siddiqui
29 Oct 2022
1 min read

Jensen’s Alpha

Jensen's Alpha is a risk-adjusted performance metric representing the average return on a portfolio or investment abo...

Owais Siddiqui
29 Oct 2022
1 min read