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Home Dictionary W William H. Gross Bill Gross co-founded Pacific Investment Management Company, PIMCO, and is known as the “King of Bonds”. He created the first fixed income investment market. Gross is a successful stamp collector and benefactor of the William H. Gross Stamp Gallery at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. David Tepper
September 25, 2022 David Tepper is a renowned hedge fund manager and co-founder of Appaloosa Management L.P. Fortune 500
September 25, 2022 The Fortune 500 is an annual list of the top 500 US companies ranked by total revenue for their respective financial years. Friedrich Hayek
September 25, 2022 Social theorist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and his colleague Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. George Soros
September 25, 2022 George Soros vies with Warren Buffett for the title of the most successful investor of all time. James H. Clark
September 25, 2022 James H. Clark is a serial and successful entrepreneur, perhaps best known for co-founding Netscape in 1994 with Marc Andreessen. Jay-Z
September 25, 2022 Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla, is the richest person in the world with a net worth of $241 billion. Julian Robertson
September 25, 2022 Julian Robertson was a famous hedge fund manager in the 1980s and 1990s. Katie Couric Clause
September 25, 2022 The Katie Couric clause was a slang term used to describe a proposed Securities and Exchange Commission rule regarding disclosure of executive compensation and compensation of other elected employees. Market Leader
September 25, 2022 The market leader usually has the largest market share in a particular industry. Michael Bloomberg
September 25, 2022 Michael Bloomberg is a billionaire businessman and owner of financial services firm Bloomberg, LLP. Monopolist
September 25, 2022 A monopolist is an individual, group or company that dominates and controls the market for a particular product or service. Oracle of Omaha
September 25, 2022 Billionaire Warren Buffett (who lives and works in Omaha, Nebraska) is known as the Oracle of Omaha, a nickname he earned as one of the world’s most successful and watched investors. Robber Baron
September 25, 2022 Robber baron is a term often used in the 19th century during America’s Golden Age to describe successful industrialists whose business practices were often considered ruthless or unethical. Upstart
September 25, 2022 Upstart refers to a person who has suddenly risen to a new class or status, but lacks the social skills and grace to match the new position. William Cavanaugh III
September 25, 2022 William Kavanaugh III is best known as the CEO of Carolina Power & Light (CP&L), which later became Progress Energy. William Dillard II
September 25, 2022 William T. Dillard II became CEO of Dillard’s Inc. in 1998. 30-Year Treasury
September 25, 2022 30-year Treasury bonds are bonds issued by the US government with a maturity of 30 years. 90/10 Strategy
September 25, 2022 The 90/10 retirement investment strategy involves investing 90% of investment capital in low-cost S&P 500 index funds, and the remaining 10% in short-term government bonds. AAA
September 25, 2022 The highest possible rating a bond can receive is AAA, which is awarded only to those bonds that demonstrate the highest level of creditworthiness. Accrued Interest
September 25, 2022 Accrued interest is a characteristic of accrual accounting and follows revenue recognition guidelines and accounting matching principles. Agency Bond
September 25, 2022 Federal government bonds and government-sponsored corporate bonds pay slightly higher interest rates than US Treasury bonds. Amortized Bond
September 25, 2022 An amortizing bond is a type in which each payment goes towards both interest and principal. Anomaly
September 25, 2022 Anomalies are events that deviate from the predictions of economic or financial models and undermine the underlying assumptions of those models. At Par
September 25, 2022 Par value is the price at which the bond was issued, also known as its face value. Baby Bond
September 25, 2022 A baby bond is a bond with a par value of less than $1,000.