Annualize: To convert anything into a yearly figure. Eg. if profits are reported as running at £10k a quarter, then they would be £40k if annualized. If a credit card interest rate was quoted as 1% a month, it would be annualized as 12%.

 

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Annualize: To convert anything into a yearly figure. Eg. if profits are reported as running at £10k a quarter, then they would be £40k if annualized. If a credit card interest rate was quoted as 1% a m . . . View Full Definition

Annualized Gain: If stock X appreciates 1.5% in one month, the annualized gain for that stock over a twelve month period is 121.5% = 18%. Compounded over the 12 month period, the gain is (1.015)^12 -1 = 19.6%.

Annualized Holding-Period Return: The annual rate of return that when compounded t times generates the same t-period holding return as actually occurred from period 1 to period t.

Portfolio Turnover Rate: For an investment company, an annualized rate found by dividing the lesser of purchases and sales by the average of portfolio assets.

Hidden Load: Hong Kong Interbank Offer Rate, the annualized offer rate banks pay to attain Hong Kong three-month deposits in denominated dollars.

Forward Discount: Annualized percentage difference between spot and forward rates.

Bank Discount Basis: A convention used for quoting bids and offers for Treasury bills in terms of annualized yield, based on a 360-day year.

Effective Call Price: Annualized interest rate on a security computed using compound interest techniques.

Return: This statement sets what a function returns. In c++ and java, the return type is indicated in the signature of the method like this: int addnumbers()