Absolute Return

Accumulation

Active asset management

Active investment strategy

Active stock selection

Actuarial funded status

Actuarial report

Actuary

Additional payment liability

Affiliation contract

All-in fee

Alternative investments

American option

Annualised return

Äquivalenzprinzip

Arbitrage

Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)

Asian option

Ask

Asset allocation

Asset class

Asset Liability Management (ALM)

Asset manager

Asset-backed securities (ABS)

Asset-based financing (ABF)

Asset-based lending (ABL)

Assets under management (AuM)

At cost

At the Money

Autocorrelation

Backwardation

Basis point

Basket

Bear market

Below par

Benchmark (reference index)

Benchmark index

Benchmark universe

Beneficiaries

Beneficiary

Beta (beta coefficient)

Bid-ask spread

Blend Style

Blue Chips

Bond

Bonus certificate

Book building

Bottom-up

Brokership

Brownfield Investments

Bull market

Buy-in table

Buyout

Buyout financing

BVG (LPP)

BVG/LPP minimum interest rate

BVV 2 (OPP 2)

Call Option

Cap

Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

Capital Call

Capital market

Capital market-based analysis method

Capitalisation-weighted index

Capitalised income value

Certificates of Accrual on Treasury Securities (CATS)

Change in purpose

Clearing

Closed-end Fund

Closing trade

Collar

Collateral

Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO)

Commitment (Committed Capital)

Communal institution

Compliance

Composite

Compound interest

Confidence interval

Contango

Continuous return

Contribution reserve

Controlling (Controlling Report, Monitoring Report)

Conversion rate

Convertible Arbitrage

Convertible bonds

Convexity

Core-satellite approach

Correlation

Counterparty

Counterparty risk

Country allocation

Coupon

Covariance

Credit Default Swap (CDS)

Credit quality

Credit risk

Credit Spread

Credit-linked Notes

Cross Hedge