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Institutions




Institutions

Insurance companies, pension funds, trusts, foundations, mutual funds, funds managers, bank investment departments.

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Insurance
A contract in which payment of premiums covers the insured against something which may, or may not occur.

Pension
A regular sum of money paid to a retired worker in return for past services or contributions.

Bank
A commercial institution licensed as a receiver of deposits. Banks are mainly concerned with making and receiving payments as well as supplying short-term loans to individuals.

Investment
The purchase of materials, machines, property, securities, etc. in order to produce income or profits.



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Installment debt
Debt issued with the condition of regularly occurring intervals for payment by the debtor, until the principal and interest are paid in full.

Installment payments
Distribution of plan assets to beneficiaries based upon a regular schedule.

Installment sale
The sale of an asset in exchange for a specified series of payments (the installments).

Installments
Regular part payments of debts, etc.

Instinet (Institutional Networks Corporation)
An electronic securities order-matching (trading) and information system that allows members (primarily professional traders and investors) to display bid and offer quotes for stocks, and to transact between themselves using brokers.

Institute of Drug Technology Australia Limited
Institute of Drug Technology Australia Limited is a large Australian company in the field of diversified financials. Their Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) code is IDT.

Institutional broker
A broker who buys and sells securities for institutional investors such as banks, and mutual funds, pensions.

Institutional Brokers' Estimate System (IBES)
A system that gathers and compiles the different estimates made by stock analysts on the future earnings for the majority of U.S. publicly traded companies.

Institutional investor
A financial institution which invests large amounts of money in the stock, bond and other financial markets. e.g. a pension or insurance fund.

Institutionalization
The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world.

Instrumentality
Notes issued by a federal agency whose obligations are guaranteed by the full-faith-and-credit of the government, even though the agency's responsibilities are not necessarily those of the US government.

Instruments
Financial securities, such as money market instruments or capital market instruments.



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Instinet (Institutional Networks Corporation)
An electronic securities order-matching (trading) and information system that allows members (primarily professional traders and investors) to display bid and offer quotes for stocks, and to transact between themselves using brokers.

Institutional broker
A broker who buys and sells securities for institutional investors such as banks, and mutual funds, pensions.

Institutional Brokers' Estimate System (IBES)
A system that gathers and compiles the different estimates made by stock analysts on the future earnings for the majority of U.S. publicly traded companies.

Institutional investor
A financial institution which invests large amounts of money in the stock, bond and other financial markets. e.g. a pension or insurance fund.

Institutionalization
The gradual domination of financial markets by institutional investors, as opposed to individual investors. This process has occurred throughout the industrialized world.

Institutions

Instrumentality
Notes issued by a federal agency whose obligations are guaranteed by the full-faith-and-credit of the government, even though the agency's responsibilities are not necessarily those of the US government.

Instruments
Financial securities, such as money market instruments or capital market instruments.

Insurable interest
A term which means that any person entering into an insurance contract must stand to lose financially following the loss or damage of an insured item, or an insured event.

Insurance
A contract in which payment of premiums covers the insured against something which may, or may not occur.

Insurance agent
Person who sells insurance policies, for a single insurance company, in return for a commission.

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