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5b44ff33eeeba660b2cf4fadfa57aada | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/serieseebond.asp | Series EE Bond | Series EE Bond
What Is a Series EE Bond?
The Series EE Bond (often referred to as a "Patriot Bond") is a non-marketable, interest-bearing U.S. government savings bond. These bonds are guaranteed to at least double in value over the typical 20-year initial term. Some Series EE bonds have total interest-paying lives that... |
ab1075402e36f7496e0836a8e481f7ad | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/serp.asp | Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP) | Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP)
What Is a Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (SERP)?
A supplemental executive retirement plan (SERP) is a set of benefits that may be made available to top-level employees in addition to those covered in the company's standard retirement savings plan.
A SERP is a form o... |
cb709325745cb506186783b2fbcfb434 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/servant-leadership.asp | Servant Leadership | Servant Leadership
What Is Servant Leadership?
Servant leadership is a leadership philosophy in which an individual interacts with others—either in a management or fellow employee capacity—with the aim of achieving authority rather than power. The system embodies a decentralized organizational structure.
The authority ... |
3496cc0e71ce3f716c64e74cb83dfdf1 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/service-certificate.asp | Service Certificates | Service Certificates
What are Service Certificates?
Service certificates are similar to bonds in that they had a face value and promised payment, including compound interest, to eligible World War I veterans at the maturity date.
Key Takeaways Service certificates are similar to bonds in that they had a face value and... |
fceaae2e5b1d12e8dc10a637accf149b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/services-sector-etf.asp | Services Sector ETF | Services Sector ETF
What Is a Services Sector ETF?
A services sector ETF is an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to replicate the returns of an underlying services sector index, a hypothetical portfolio representing the industry, by investing in the same basket of securities. To achieve this goal, these funds invest... |
b1691626b2a9954c63a380eb74306341 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/servicing_strip.asp | Servicing Strip | Servicing Strip
What Is a Servicing Strip?
A servicing strip is a type of security created by the stream of cash flows that is backed from the servicing fee on a mortgage. A servicing strip is a small percentage of periodic loan payments as part of overall loan servicing.
Loan servicing refers to all of the administrat... |
2e3689e77388779cde8f573ef7e436a7 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settlementagent.asp | Settlement Agent | Settlement Agent
What Is a Settlement Agent?
A settlement agent is a party who helps complete a transaction between a buyer and a seller. This is done through the transfer of securities to the buyer and the transfer of cash or other compensation to the seller.
For a real estate transaction, closing agents are professio... |
c6d9bd3abe06d81866d68cacad36fc82 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settlementdate.asp | Settlement Date | Settlement Date
What Is a Settlement Date?
The settlement date is the date when a trade is final, and the buyer must make payment to the seller while the seller delivers the assets to the buyer. The settlement date for stocks and bonds is usually two business days after the execution date (T+2). For government securiti... |
f6d6e9bbddc80fa491549e7cf1641a08 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settlementdateaccounting.asp | Settlement Date Accounting | Settlement Date Accounting
What is Settlement Date Accounting?
Settlement date accounting is an accounting method that accountants may use when recording financial exchange transactions in the company's general ledger. Under this method, a transaction is recorded on the "books" at the point in time when the given trans... |
15ca18d75908d30ce7e5100d4bdc6aa9 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settlementrisk.asp | Settlement Risk | Settlement Risk
What Is Settlement Risk?
Settlement risk is the possibility that one or more parties will fail to deliver on the terms of a contract at the agreed-upon time. Settlement risk is a type of counterparty risk associated with default risk, as well as with timing differences between parties. Settlement risk i... |
3104dc46bdd693e150eb4b9d539c7782 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settling-in-allowance.asp | Settling-In Allowance | Settling-In Allowance
What Is a Settling-In Allowance?
A settling-in allowance is money provided as part of relocation expenses to a person who has transferred locations or moved as part of accepting a new job. A settling-in allowance may be given as a lump sum or later reimbursed by the current or new employer upon su... |
22361e30d8466bf570a14d6a34b438c7 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/settlor.asp | Settlor Defined Legally | Settlor Defined Legally
A settlor is the entity that establishes a trust. The settlor goes by several other names: donor, grantor, trustor, and trustmaker. Regardless of what this entity is called, its role is to legally transfer control of an asset to a trustee, who manages it for one or more beneficiaries. In certain... |
27df21a75d9dbf8b6cf0f5d75c7eff1b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/severance-tax.asp | Severance Tax | Severance Tax
What Is Severance Tax?
Severance tax is a state tax imposed on the extraction of non-renewable natural resources that are intended for consumption in other states. These natural resources include such as crude oil, condensate and natural gas, coalbed methane, timber, uranium, and carbon dioxide.
Understan... |
c87a82e9583da909ca029376ab7d650b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/severancepay.asp | Severance Pay | Severance Pay
What Is Severance Pay?
Severance pay is the compensation and/or benefits an employer provides to an employee after employment is over. Severance packages may include extended benefits, such as health insurance and outplacement assistance to help an employee secure a new position.
Employers offer packages ... |
8081657ecf809d91be92e8823a8c48d4 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sfas.asp | Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) | Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS)
What Is a Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS)?
Statements of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS), published by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), provided guidance on a specific accounting topic, until 2009. SFAS laid the guidelines for a... |
79b9143d9bc7bb404285ba7ec225d759 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sfpds.asp | Short-Form Prospectus Distribution System (SFPDS) | Short-Form Prospectus Distribution System (SFPDS)
What Is the Short-Form Prospectus Distribution System (SFPDS)?
The Short-Form Prospectus Distribution System is a standard system Canadian regulators use to distribute changes to the prospectus for each issue of security. The short-form prospectus must contain any mat... |
b9b1527a51708c8681b29aa7fdd0edbe | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sgd-singapore-dollar.asp | SGD (Singapore Dollar) | SGD (Singapore Dollar)
What is the SGD (Singapore Dollar)?
SGD is the abbreviation for the Singapore dollar, which is the official currency of the island state of Singapore. The Singapore dollar is made up of 100 cents and is often presented with the symbol S$ to set it apart from other dollar-based currencies. It is a... |
e8e2e4618b37c557a10b9ef51c981c2a | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shadow-banking-system.asp | Shadow Banking System | Shadow Banking System
What is the Shadow Banking System?
A shadow banking system is the group of financial intermediaries facilitating the creation of credit across the global financial system but whose members are not subject to regulatory oversight. The shadow banking system also refers to unregulated activities by r... |
9d92c92407569ab58849cbb50e4c578d | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shadow.asp | Shadow | Shadow
What Is a Shadow?
A shadow, or a wick, is a line found on a candle in a candlestick chart that is used to indicate where the price of a stock has fluctuated relative to the opening and closing prices. Essentially, these shadows illustrate the highest and lowest prices at which a security has traded over a specif... |
6dbf96e8ee631a6ab99031ac7951c740 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shakeout.asp | Shakeout | Shakeout
What is a Shakeout?
A shakeout is a situation in which many investors exit their positions in a stock or market segment at the same time, often at a loss. A shakeout is usually caused uncertainty or recent bad news circulating around a particular security or industry. Shakeouts can be quite variable in duratio... |
6bd7ab763c38450271b0545722ab4866 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shale.asp | Oil Shale | Oil Shale
What Is Oil Shale?
Oil shale is a type of sedimentary rock formation that can be used to produce oil and gas. Oil shale can produce oil and gas because of the presence of kerogen, a type of organic matter that burns when exposed to flame. Although oil shale can be used as a source of petroleum, the difficulty... |
f87c3b1c017a415c7606144827e04a58 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/share-certificate.asp | Share Certificate | Share Certificate
What is a Share Certificate?
A share certificate is a written document signed on behalf of a corporation that serves as legal proof of ownership of the number of shares indicated. A share certificate is also referred to as a stock certificate.
Key Takeaways Share certificates are documents issued by ... |
41362082eccc2a37a4f943fef9a5c2e7 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharedequityfinanceagreements.asp | Shared Equity Finance Agreements | Shared Equity Finance Agreements
What Are Shared Equity Finance Agreements?
A shared equity finance agreement is a specific type of real estate purchase agreement in which a shared-equity partnership of two or more parties buys a residence together.
Sometimes, such an agreement will instead specify that a lender and a ... |
ca10d9414c7e16f4d1583de006e2d919 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholder-value.asp | Shareholder Value Definition | Shareholder Value Definition
What Is Shareholder Value?
Shareholder value is the value delivered to the equity owners of a corporation due to management's ability to increase sales, earnings, and free cash flow, which leads to an increase in dividends and capital gains for the shareholders.
A company’s shareholder valu... |
a285ad3a17cfd8f4fc99028fd6b5f701 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholderactivist.asp | Shareholder Activist | Shareholder Activist
What Is a Shareholder Activist?
A shareholder activist is a person who attempts to use their rights as a shareholder of a publicly-traded corporation to bring about change within or for the corporation.
Key Takeaways Shareholder activists are shareholders of companies who bring about change withi... |
1e03c2f128c087677a39ac97955ea715 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shareholdersequity.asp | Shareholder Equity (SE) | Shareholder Equity (SE)
What Is Shareholder Equity (SE)?
For corporations, shareholder equity (SE), also referred to as shareholders' equity and stockholders' equity, is the corporation's owners' residual claim on assets after debts have been paid. Equity is equal to a firm's total assets minus its total liabilities.
R... |
8f6045c1d748680ae8bddf5684d9df5b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharepremiumaccount.asp | Share Premium Account | Share Premium Account
What Is a Share Premium Account?
A share premium account is typically listed on a company’s balance sheet. This account is credited for money paid, or promised to be paid, by a shareholder for a share, but only when the shareholder pays more than the cost of a share. This account can be used to wr... |
358c2cf20551bb7c63c0a1aad9b70ed6 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sharerepurchase.asp | Share Repurchase | Share Repurchase
What Is a Share Repurchase?
A share repurchase is a transaction whereby a company buys back its own shares from the marketplace. A company might buy back its shares because management considers them undervalued. The company buys shares directly from the market or offers its shareholders the option of t... |
904d0904610671f2f2d970f5b5dbfbc3 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shelfoffering.asp | Shelf Offering | Shelf Offering
What Is a Shelf Offering?
A shelf offering is a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provision that allows an equity issuer (such as a corporation) to register a new issue of securities without having to sell the entire issue at once. The issuer can instead sell portions of the issue over a three-yea... |
28d231d2721940288eb164654c72b1b7 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sheriff-sales.asp | Sheriff’s Sale | Sheriff’s Sale
What Is a Sheriff’s Sale?
A sheriff’s sale is a public auction at which property that has been defaulted on is repossessed. The proceeds from the sale are used to pay mortgage lenders, banks, tax collectors, and other litigants who have lost money on the property.
Sheriff's sales happen at the end of ... |
4b97fce6f5c6c6b1927949696285b4ca | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shitcoin.asp | Shitcoin | Shitcoin
What Is Shitcoin?
The term shitcoin refers to a cryptocurrency with little to no value or a digital currency that has no immediate, discernible purpose. The word is a pejorative term often used to describe altcoins or cryptocurrencies that were developed after bitcoins became popular.
The diminished value of a... |
ba58d7f9ae4eabf1d620d200f86fd6fb | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shogunbond.asp | Shogun Bond | Shogun Bond
What is Shogun Bond?
Shogun bond is a type of bond that is issued in Japan by foreign entities, including corporations, financial institutions and governments, and denominated in a currency other than yen.
Key Takeaways A Shogun Bond is a bond issued in Japan by a foreign entity in a currency other than t... |
23cf6b7ad7d89ae4fabe8ef3087c92d5 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/short-call.asp | Short Call | Short Call
What Is a Short Call?
A short call is an options trading strategy in which the trader is betting that the price of the asset on which they are placing the option is going to drop.
Key Takeaways A short call is a strategy involving a call option, which obligates the call seller to sell a security to the call... |
1e6b857c4743d665407088fa46fdf4a9 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/short-coupon.asp | Short Coupon | Short Coupon
What Is a Short Coupon?
A short coupon is a payment made on a bond within a shorter time interval than is normal for that bond. A short coupon is used if the issuer wishes to make payments on certain dates—for example, June 30 and Dec. 31—rather than simply after a particular interval from when the bond is... |
a91241777ccaf76b9cb30213e7c7cf38 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/short-form-report.asp | Short-Form Report | Short-Form Report
What Is a Short-Form Report?
A short-form report is a brief summary of an audit that has been performed on a company's financial statements. The report usually precedes a company's summary balance sheet or financial statements when they are requested by another party.
Key Takeaways A short-form repo... |
202895a4632e30fff2c482ea4e83e325 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/short-put.asp | Short Put | Short Put
What is a Short Put
A short put refers to when a trader opens an options trade by selling or writing a put option. The trader who buys the put option is long that option, and the trader who wrote that option is short. The writer (short) of the put option receives the premium (option cost), and the profit on t... |
8f07bd8f236b730f07e16e0e228a837e | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortfall-cover.asp | Shortfall Cover | Shortfall Cover
What Is a Shortfall Cover?
In the insurance industry, "shortfall cover" refers to a type of reinsurance arrangement in which one party agrees to cover a specific gap in the existing insurance coverage of the other party.
The term can also refer to a type of consumer or individual insurance that covers a... |
9acbd0c9bc4154d1cf45c93085b01d10 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortfall.asp | Shortfall | Shortfall
What Is a Shortfall?
A shortfall is an amount by which a financial obligation or liability exceeds the required amount of cash that is available. A shortfall can be temporary, arising out of a unique set of circumstances, or it can be persistent, in which case it may indicate poor financial management practic... |
7bb86117eca0a5678546061de11d73d9 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortinteresttheory.asp | Short-Interest Theory | Short-Interest Theory
What Is Short-Interest Theory?
Short-interest theory states that high levels of short interest are a bullish indicator. Therefore, followers of this theory will seek to buy heavily-shorted stocks and profit from their anticipated rise in price.
This approach goes against the prevailing view of mos... |
b1683f510d346ddb2299855f90b613e5 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shortsqueeze.asp | Short Squeeze | Short Squeeze
What Is a Short Squeeze?
A short squeeze occurs when a stock or other asset jumps sharply higher, forcing traders who had bet that its price would fall, to buy it in order to forestall even greater losses. Their scramble to buy only adds to the upward pressure on the stock's price.
Key Takeaways A short ... |
80f4e649bf03285f8aba97be1c751608 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shotgunclause.asp | Shotgun Clause | Shotgun Clause
What Is a Shotgun Clause?
A shotgun clause is a special provision that may be used in a partnership to force a partner to sell their stake or buy out an offering partner. In effect, it is both a form of dispute resolution and a pricing mechanism.
Most often, a shotgun clause is used to force a partner (o... |
58eca4b1231ed946434481781d0d8ab5 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shp-st-helana-pound.asp | Saint Helena Pound (SHP) | Saint Helena Pound (SHP)
What Is the Saint Helena Pound (SHP)?
The Saint Helena pound (SHP) is the official currency of St. Helena and Ascension Island, two of the three South Atlantic islands that comprise the British territory of Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha.
Key Takeaways The Saint Helena pound (SH... |
11aef75bccba5879f7899810abf49f5b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/shrinkflation.asp | Shrinkflation | Shrinkflation
What Is Shrinkflation?
Shrinkflation is the practice of reducing the size of a product while maintaining its sticker price. Raising the price per given amount is a strategy employed by companies, mainly in the food and beverage industries, to stealthily boost profit margins.
Key Takeaways Shrinkflation ... |
e1f31afe305fcb6757009d66a2951e8b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sic_code.asp | Standard Industrial Classification (SIC Code) | Standard Industrial Classification (SIC Code)
What Is a Standard Industrial Classification (SIC Code)?
The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) are four-digit codes that categorize the industries that companies belong to while organizing the industries by their business activities. The SIC codes were created by the... |
de302316bd5af4b13848d8417ab5aec8 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sicav.asp | Société d'investissement à Capital Variable (SICAV) | Société d'investissement à Capital Variable (SICAV)
What Is Société d'investissement à Capital Variable (SICAV)?
A Société d'investissement à Capital Variable, or SICAV fund, is a publicly-traded open-end investment fund structure offered in Europe. SICAV funds are similar to open-end mutual funds in the U.S. Shares in... |
79061c527cc695045409ab0dfbb911df | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sidepocket.asp | Side Pocket | Side Pocket
What Is a Side Pocket?
A side pocket is a type of account utilized in hedge funds to segregate riskier or illiquid assets from more liquid investments. Usually, once a position enters a side pocket account only the current participants in the hedge fund are entitled to a share of it. Future investors will n... |
b99870826c18407a0a1bc77a3bcdce54 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sidewaystrend.asp | Sideways Trend | Sideways Trend
What is a Sideways Trend?
A sideways trend is the horizontal price movement that occurs when the forces of supply and demand are nearly equal. This typically occurs during a period of consolidation before the price continues a prior trend or reverses into a new trend.
A sideways price trend is also commo... |
9bc2cceb590fda94261e23d94c82659b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sifma.asp | SIFMA (Security Industry/Financial Market Assoc.) | SIFMA (Security Industry/Financial Market Assoc.)
What is SIFMA (Security Industry/Financial Market Assoc.)?
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) is a not-for-profit trade association that represents securities brokerage firms, investment banking institutions, and other investment firms. SI... |
72b8a587778e574ccf7307bc5dfe7d18 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sightletterofcredit.asp | Sight Letter of Credit | Sight Letter of Credit
What Is a Sight Letter of Credit?
A sight letter of credit refers to a document that verifies the payment of goods or services, payable once it is presented along with the necessary documents. An organization that offers a sight letter of credit commits itself to paying the agreed amount of funds... |
becc9dfe75ed2ed30a438fa7bbabf92f | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/signing-bonus.asp | Signing Bonus | Signing Bonus
What Is a Signing Bonus?
The term signing bonus refers to a financial award offered by a business to a prospective employee as an incentive to join the company. A signing bonus may consist of one-time or lump sum cash payments and/or stock options. Businesses offer signing bonuses to highly qualified job ... |
3981da3e7dd17500e8a5c6312a567192 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/siliconvalley.asp | Silicon Valley | Silicon Valley
What Is Silicon Valley?
Silicon Valley is a region in the south San Francisco Bay Area, made notable by the number of technology companies that started and are headquartered there, including Apple, Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook, and Netflix. The term rose to prominence in the 1970s in reference to the... |
11c77d758c65cc93a0dbf60d1f660a33 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/silk-road.asp | Silk Road (Website) | Silk Road (Website)
What Was Silk Road?
Silk Road was a digital black market platform that was popular for hosting money laundering activities and illegal drug transactions using Bitcoin. Silk Road, regarded as the first darknet market, was launched in 2011 and eventually shut down by the FBI in 2013. It was founded by... |
ed37aeb6995efe9ec555f42f1f3e54f0 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/silver-certificate.asp | Silver Certificate | Silver Certificate
What Is a Silver Certificate?
A silver certificate is a type of legal tender in the form of paper currency that was issued by the U.S. government beginning in 1878. These certificates were eventually phased out in 1964 and today can be redeemed for their face value in cash only, rather than in actual... |
6dc17961f9848f424096dd8d66828250 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/silver-etf.asp | Silver ETF | Silver ETF
What Is a Silver ETF?
A silver exchange-traded fund (ETF) invests primarily in hard silver assets, which are held in trust by the fund manager or custodian. Established typically as grantor trusts, silver ETFs allow each share represented by the ETF the specific right to a particular quantity of silver, meas... |
2c1ce90a57d2b7071f490165870f0b90 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/simon-kuznets.asp | Simon Kuznets | Simon Kuznets
Who Was Simon Kuznets?
Simon Kuznets, a Russian-American development economist and statistician, was awarded the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his research on economic growth. He set the standard for national income accounting, enabling accurate estimates of gross national product to be calcu... |
13fbb902325e1a7b1de8a678a7654583 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/simple-agreement-future-tokens-saft.asp | Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) | Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT)
What Is a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT)?
A Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (SAFT) is an investment contract offered by cryptocurrency developers to accredited investors. It is considered a security and, thus, must comply with securities regulations.
Raising funds... |
b3d85d3b7d728252a640f5fe2e6cb2d6 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/simple_interest_mortgage.asp | Simple-Interest Mortgage | Simple-Interest Mortgage
What Is Simple-Interest Mortgage?
A simple-interest mortgage is a home loan with the calculation of interest is on a daily basis. This mortgage is different from a traditional mortgage where interest calculations happen on a monthly basis.
On a simple-interest mortgage, the daily interest charg... |
26689327100fcc3d4437a40a0429d2dd | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sinewave.asp | Sine Wave | Sine Wave
What Is a Sine Wave?
A sine wave is a geometric waveform that oscillates (moves up, down or side-to-side) periodically, and is defined by the function y = sin x. In other words, it is an s-shaped, smooth wave that oscillates above and below zero.
Sine waves are used in technical analysis and trading to help i... |
28fdc671d878bd5f9284a8f343402611 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sinfulstock.asp | Sin Stock | Sin Stock
What Is a Sin Stock?
A sin stock is a publicly traded company involved in or associated with an activity that is considered unethical or immoral. Sin stocks are generally in sectors that deal directly with morally dubious actions. They are perceived as making money from exploiting human weaknesses and frailti... |
0fcc41b1c64aaad0b66a4c131da2872a | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/single-digit-midget.asp | Single-Digit Midget | Single-Digit Midget
What Is a Single-Digit Midget?
Single-digit midget is a slang term for a stock with a price that is below $10 per share after having traded at a much higher level. The term came into prominence in the early 2000s when Internet companies that had taken off in the late 1990s, called dot-coms, lost val... |
869623814d6f5651e5344b96fca09edc | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/single-interest-insurance.asp | Single Interest Insurance | Single Interest Insurance
What Is Single Interest Insurance?
Single interest insurance—also known as vendors single interest insurance or VSI insurance—covers the interests of one of the two parties that co-own a property. This type of insurance typically covers a portion or all of the outstanding value owed to a lende... |
7abe1e8b2c7ec86df8e516ff17da72fe | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/single-life-payout.asp | Single-Life Payout | Single-Life Payout
What Is Single-Life Payout?
An annuity or pension that pays out to only one person is known as a single-life payout. Single-life payout is one of two payout options an employer uses to distribute retirement benefits. At retirement, a retiree has the choice of either a single-life payout or a joint-li... |
abfd410fce57f816a2804847aed5773d | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/single-net-lease.asp | Single Net Lease | Single Net Lease
What is a Single Net Lease
A single net lease is a commercial real estate lease agreement in which the tenant agrees to pay property taxes in addition to rent. A single net lease is a form of pass through lease in which taxes associated with the property become the responsibility of the tenant instead ... |
d24cdb1624dd9f55720539b4d629eba8 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/single.asp | Single Filer | Single Filer
What Is a Single Filer?
Single filers are taxpayers who file their federal income tax return with the IRS under the status “single.” This filing status is used by a taxpayer who is unmarried and does not qualify for any other filing status.
Key Takeaways Single filer status is for people who are unmarr... |
ae90821968850fd767dfbd79fa0d795a | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/singles-day.asp | Singles' Day | Singles' Day
What is Singles' Day?
Singles' Day is a holiday celebrated in China on November 11. Unmarried people commemorate the occasion by treating themselves to gifts and presents, leading Singles' Day to become the largest online shopping day in the world, by quite some margin.
Understanding Singles' Day
Singles' ... |
98c46090ecc7a247871105ec43e47890 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sinkingfund.asp | Sinking Fund | Sinking Fund
What Is a Sinking Fund?
A sinking fund is a fund containing money set aside or saved to pay off a debt or bond. A company that issues debt will need to pay that debt off in the future, and the sinking fund helps to soften the hardship of a large outlay of revenue. A sinking fund is established so the compa... |
5a9917e223a3171158deb755bf2f1a96 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sir-allan-stanford.asp | Allen Stanford | Allen Stanford
Who Is Allen Stanford?
Robert Allen Stanford, who goes by Allen Stanford, is an American/Antiguan former banker that was convicted in 2012 of a Ponzi scheme following an investigation for securities fraud in excess of $7 billion. It was revealed that Allen Stanford had grossly misinformed his 50,000 in... |
f12230f0392feb9def0b240fa6a936fa | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sit-slovenian-tolar.asp | SIT (Slovenian Tolar) | SIT (Slovenian Tolar)
What Was the Slovenian Tolar (SIT)?
SIT was the currency abbreviation for the Slovenian tolar, which was the official currency of Slovenia from October 1991 until December 2006. Slovenia joined the European Union (EU) in May 2004 and a few years later, in January 2007, the country adopted the comm... |
a4133d30493bbd6ca1e5de00c3c2746b | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/six-forces-model.asp | Six Forces Model | Six Forces Model
What Is the Six Forces Model?
The six forces model is a strategic business tool that helps businesses evaluate the competitiveness and attractiveness of a market. It provides a view or outlook by analyzing six key areas of business activity and competitive forces that shape any industry. The purpose of... |
6adba081d2f3353698679b248508d21c | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/six-sigma.asp | Six Sigma | Six Sigma
What Is Six Sigma?
Six Sigma is a quality-control methodology developed in 1986 by Motorola, Inc. The method uses a data-driven review to limit mistakes or defects in a corporate or business process. Six Sigma emphasizes cycle-time improvement while at the same time reducing manufacturing defects to a level o... |
4bc8672b44bb379288199976c82994c9 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/six-swiss-exchange.asp | SIX Swiss Exchange | SIX Swiss Exchange
DEFINITION of SIX Swiss Exchange
The SIX Swiss Exchange is Switerzland's primary stock exchange, located in Zurich. The SIX Swiss Exchange trades Swiss government bonds, stocks and derivative products such as stock options. The SIX Swiss Exchange is among the world's 20 major stock exchanges.
BREAKIN... |
5463c4b149af783d75a6cdc255545252 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/skilled-labor.asp | Skilled Labor | Skilled Labor
What Is Skilled Labor?
Skilled labor is a segment of the workforce that has specialized know-how, training, and experience to carry out more complex physical, or mental tasks than routine job functions. Skilled labor is generally characterized by higher education, expertise levels attained through trainin... |
9260515ae15b0579aba8637323cfd94c | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/skimming.asp | Skimming | Skimming
What Is Skimming?
Skimming is a method used by identity thieves to capture payment and personal information from a credit card holder. Several approaches can be used by fraudsters to procure card information, with the most advanced approach involving a small device called a skimmer that reads the information s... |
d14a2b6736cedec078640906f01960d3 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/skininthegame.asp | Skin in the Game | Skin in the Game
What Is Skin in the Game?
Skin in the game is a phrase made popular by renowned investor Warren Buffett referring to a situation in which high-ranking insiders use their own money to buy stock in the company they are running. The aphorism is particularly common in business, finance, and gambling and is... |
aa54617da8154c80d18da1277ddd592c | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/skip_payment_mortgage.asp | Skip-Payment Mortgage | Skip-Payment Mortgage
What Is a Skip-Payment Mortgage?
A skip-payment mortgage is a home loan product that allows a borrower to skip one or more payments without any penalty. The interest accrued during the skipped periods will instead be added to the principal, and monthly payments will then be recalculated once they ... |
78048dd6faa51cfe9e0363598ba62b9a | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sl-crisis.asp | Savings and Loan Crisis – S&L Crisis | Savings and Loan Crisis – S&L Crisis
What Was the Savings and Loan (S&L) Crisis?
The savings and loan (S&L) crisis was a slow-moving financial disaster. The crisis came to a head and resulted in the failure of nearly a third of the 3,234 savings and loan associations in the United States between 1986 and 1995.
The prob... |
439dbb12fb6819685e77b88778d16549 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sluggisheconomy.asp | Sluggish Economy | Sluggish Economy
What is a Sluggish Economy?
A sluggish economy is a state of an economy in which growth is slow, flat or declining. The term can refer to the economy as a whole or a component of the economy, such as weak housing starts. Extended periods of sluggishness can easily lead into a recession, so a sluggish e... |
7ee80ca521f8e8b8abc6d50742423d9a | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/small-business-development-center.asp | Small Business Development Center (SBDC) | Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
What Is a Small Business Development Center (SBDC)?
Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) provide free marketing, financing, and business-related assistance to local entrepreneurs. They are found in all states, as well as Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. territor... |
b8d1a5ae5b7bc3fd86644b1ef8af7e87 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/small-business-job-protection-act-of-1996.asp | Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 | Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996
What Is the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996?
The Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996 is a piece of American legislation that had substantial implications for small businesses. The act increased the minimum wage requirements, simplified pension rules, and adjuste... |
c2d078df572edefb605fe02e694feb3c | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smart-beta-etf.asp | Smart Beta ETF | Smart Beta ETF
What Is a Smart Beta ETF?
A smart Beta ETF is a type of exchange-traded fund (ETF) that uses a rules-based system for selecting investments to be included in the fund portfolio. An exchange-traded fund or ETF is a type of fund that tracks an index such as the S&P 500. Smart beta ETFs build on traditional... |
2e547c22e5bdfd44defff4cf6571bb9d | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smart-money.asp | Smart Money | Smart Money
What Is Smart Money?
Smart money is the capital that is being controlled by institutional investors, market mavens, central banks, funds, and other financial professionals. Smart money was originally a gambling term that referred to the wagers made by gamblers with a track record of success.
Key Takeaways ... |
af4be2d16d85882d91d9d99ad3ac2af2 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smartphone.asp | Smartphone | Smartphone
What Is a Smartphone?
A smartphone is a handheld electronic device that provides a connection to a cellular network. Smartphones allow people to make phone calls, send text messages, and access the Internet.
Key Takeaways A smartphone is a handheld electronic device that provides a connection to a cellular... |
33152b3ff98a7b4e0322b52f71ed2141 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sml.asp | Security Market Line (SML) | Security Market Line (SML)
What Is the Security Market Line?
The security market line (SML) is a line drawn on a chart that serves as a graphical representation of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM)—which shows different levels of systematic, or market risk, of various marketable securities, plotted against the exp... |
fb8b8ba55550ea4f3a78db691d99e5d2 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smokestack-industries.asp | Smokestack Industry | Smokestack Industry
What is a Smokestack Industry?
A smokestack industry is a traditional heavy manufacturing industry that produces large items or inputs into other industries. Examples include cars, shipbuilding, steel and other metals, chemicals, and heavy machinery. In short, it refers to any heavy manufacturing in... |
568d0d47e9750ebe81a81d032d17435e | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/smoot-hawley-tariff-act.asp | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
What Is the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act?
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. import duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and other industries from foreign competition. The act is now widely blamed for worsening the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. and around th... |
20e9996c9000e8dda5c64cb6645aba51 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soccermomindicator.asp | Soccer Mom Indicator | Soccer Mom Indicator
What is the Soccer Mom Indicator?
The soccer mom indicator is an informal, lagging economic indicator that looks to what people are talking about at their children’s sports events to determine how the economy or a market sector was recently performing.
Key Takeaways
The soccer mom indicator is an i... |
562ac591b359ccf1332abd51373aff12 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-commerce.asp | Social Commerce | Social Commerce
What Is Social Commerce?
Social commerce uses networking websites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter as vehicles to promote and sell products and services. A social commerce campaign's success is measured by the degree to which consumers interact with the company's marketing through retweets, like... |
586c33af86b181b2d4ac050128d24e2c | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-data.asp | Social Data | Social Data
Social data is information that social media users publicly share, which includes metadata such as the user’s location, language spoken, biographical data, and/or shared links. Social data is valuable to marketers looking for customer insights that may increase sales or, in the case of a political campaign,... |
c738a7b354a29dd236e7a40a9911e175 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-enterprise.asp | Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise
What Is a Social Enterprise?
A social enterprise or social business is defined as a business that has specific social objectives that serve its primary purpose. Social enterprises seek to maximize profits while maximizing benefits to society and the environment. Their profits are principally used to f... |
aeee6ef913ed639bca1e2ffa2799e7d0 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-identity.asp | Social Identity | Social Identity
What Is Social Identity?
Social identity is an organization or company's image as derived from its relationships with its customers, suppliers, shareholders, and other stakeholders. An organization's social identity thus comes from the groups that the organization belongs to or is affiliated with, the w... |
e3757f642b4b049bf986ede7942d0db8 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-impact-bond.asp | Social Impact Bond (SIB) | Social Impact Bond (SIB)
What Is a Social Impact Bond?
A social impact bond (SIB) is a contract with the public sector or governing authority, whereby it pays for better social outcomes in certain areas and passes on the part of the savings achieved to investors. A social impact bond is not a bond, per se, since repaym... |
1a7821af587254f58ae72451e1989534 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-impact-statement.asp | Social Impact Statement | Social Impact Statement
What Is a Social Impact Statement?
A social impact statement—also known as a corporate social responsibility (CSR) statement—is a report or press release issued by a company that outlines the steps it has taken to improve the social and environmental standards of its business operations. Many co... |
4cb4f1fb5d7a3dd2581f78a2dba8ceb4 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-media-optimization-smo.asp | Social Media Optimization (SMO) | Social Media Optimization (SMO)
What Is Social Media Optimization (SMO)?
Social media optimization (SMO) is the use of social media networks to manage and grow an organization’s message and online presence. As a digital marketing strategy, social media optimization can be used to increase awareness of new products and ... |
a88bd11d6a7133388d1f9260f93d72ba | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-payment.asp | Social Payment | Social Payment
What Is Social Payment?
Social payment is the use of social media to transfer money to another person or business. The trend was first popularized by PayPal, and other companies have since hatched their own versions, including Venmo, Snapcash, Google Wallet, Apple Pay, and Twitter Buy.
Social payment is ... |
caa983d443e35eb05838eac457985337 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/socialism.asp | Socialism | Socialism
What Is Socialism?
Socialism is a populist economic and political system based on public ownership (also known as collective or common ownership) of the means of production. Those means include the machinery, tools, and factories used to produce goods that aim to directly satisfy human needs. Communism and so... |
3731aedfa83aef2769735f7932a60202 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/socialsecurity.asp | Guide to Social Security Benefits | Guide to Social Security Benefits
What Is Social Security?
Social Security is the term used for the Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program in the United States, run by the Social Security Administration (SSA), which is a federal agency. While best known for retirement benefits, it also provides su... |
b120c9e911ce783e8fe5be155dca1faa | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soe.asp | State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) | State-Owned Enterprise (SOE)
What Is a State-Owned Enterprise?
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a legal entity that is created by a government in order to partake in commercial activities on the government's behalf. It can be either wholly or partially owned by a government and is typically earmarked to participate in... |
6fab7b562d780a395ef193dea599b368 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soft-fork.asp | Soft Fork | Soft Fork
What Is a Soft Fork?
In blockchain technology, a soft fork is a change to the software protocol where only previously valid transaction blocks are made invalid. Because old nodes will recognize the new blocks as valid, a soft fork is backwards-compatible. This kind of fork requires only a majority of the mine... |
af5945d5d4316128516c2101c6002ad3 | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soft-inquiry.asp | Soft Credit Check | Soft Credit Check
What Is a Soft Credit Check?
A soft credit check is an inquiry into your credit report initiated either by you or a company. It can occur even if you didn’t apply for credit and is primarily used to screen for a preapproval financing offer or background check. The good news is that a soft inquiry does... |
1567df668e26477b04cc17c2245152fc | https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/soft-sell.asp | Soft Sell | Soft Sell
What Is a Soft Sell?
Soft sell refers to an advertising and sales approach that features subtle language and a non-aggressive technique. A soft sell is designed to avoid angering potential customers and pushing them away. Because soft selling is a low-pressure, persuasive and subtle sales technique, it may no... |
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