Series 65 Exam
The Series 65 — officially the Uniform Investment Adviser Law Exam — is the primary qualification used by many U.S. state securities regulators to…
Series 6
The FINRA Series 6 (Investment Company/Variable Contracts Products Limited Representative) license authorizes a registered representative to sell certain packaged investment products: mutual funds, variable…
Series 57
The Series 57 (Securities Trader Representative Exam) is a FINRA qualification required for individuals who will act as professional traders in equity and convertible-debt…
Series 3
The Series 3 (National Commodities Futures Examination) is the industry qualification exam that enables individuals to register with the National Futures Association (NFA) and…
Series 24
The Series 24, officially the General Securities Principal Qualification Examination, is a FINRA-administered qualification that permits the holder to act as a general securities…
Serial Correlation
• Serial correlation (also called autocorrelation or lagged correlation) occurs when observations of the same variable at different times are correlated. In finance, it…
Sensitivity Analysis
Sensitivity analysis is a “what‑if” technique that shows how the output (dependent variable) of a model responds to changes in one or more input…
Sensex
Key takeaways – The S&P BSE Sensex (commonly “Sensex”) is India’s benchmark stock index made up of 30 of the largest, most liquid companies…
Senior Bank Loan
A senior bank loan (sometimes called a senior secured loan or syndicated bank loan) is debt originally made by a bank to a company…
Sell Side
Sell-side is the segment of the financial industry that creates, promotes, underwrites, trades and sells financial instruments — stocks, bonds, foreign exchange, derivatives and…