Business / Finance Glossary

Funding: A pension plan in which all liabilities, including payments to be made to pensioners in the immediate future, are completely funded.

Funding Ratio: Used to describe the refinancing of a debt prior to its maturity (the same as refunding). In corporate finance refers to the floating of bonds to raise finance and levels of capital. See als . . . View Full Definition

Funding Risk: The ratio of a pension plan's assets to its liabilities.

Funds From Operations (FFO): Related: Interest rate risk

Fungibility: Used by real estate and other investment trusts to define the cash flow from trust operations; earnings with depreciation and amortization added back. A similar term increasingly used is fun . . . View Full Definition

Furthest Month: The substitutability of listed options, which is dependent upon their common expiration dates and strike prices. The congruence of expiration dates and strike prices lets investors close pos . . . View Full Definition

FUTOP: Used in the context of commodities or options trading to refer to the month that is away from the contract's date of settlement.

Future: The Danish derivatives market, merged with the Copenhagen Stock Exchange in 1997.

Future Investment Opportunities: A term used to designate all contracts covering the sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery on a commodity exchange.

Future Value: The identification of additional, more valuable, investment opportunities in the future that result from a current opportunity or operation.

Futures: The amount of cash at a specified date in the future that is equivalent in value to a specified sum today.

Futures Commission Merchant (FCM): A term used to designate all contracts covering the sale of financial instruments or physical commodities for future delivery on a commodity exchange.

Futures Contract: A firm or person engaged in soliciting or accepting and handling orders for the purchase or sale of futures contracts, subject to the rules of a futures exchange and, who, in connection with . . . View Full Definition

Futures Contract Multiple: Agreement to buy or sell a set number of shares of a specific stock in a designated future month at a price agreed upon today by the buyer and seller. The contracts themselves are often trad . . . View Full Definition

Futures Market: A constant set by an exchange, which when multiplied by the futures price gives the dollar value of a stock index futures contract.

Futures Option: A market where contracts for future delivery of a commodity or a security are bought or sold.

Futures Price: An option on a futures contract. Related: Options on physicals.

G: The price at which parties to a futures contract agree to transact upon the settlement date.

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