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VestBecome applicable or exercisable. A term mainly used on the context of employee stock ownership or option programs. Employees might be given equity in a firm but they must stay with the firm for a number of years before they are entitled to the full equity. This is a vesting provision. It provides incentive for the employee to perform.Vest Similar MatchesReinvestment rateReinvestment rateThe rate at which an investor assumes interest payments made on a debt security can be reinvested over the life of that security. Zero investment portfolioZero investment portfolioA portfolio of zero net value established by buying and shorting component securities, usually in the context of an arbitrage strategy. Ethical investmentEthical investmentThe policy of selecting stocks for your portfolio partly on the grounds of the ethical or environmental code pursued by the companies in question.If you ask ten people what they think is ethical you will get ten different answers. Ethical views, by their very nature, are subjective.The major exclusions tend to be arms, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, animal testing, environmental damage and the payment of exploitative wages in developing countries. But the list could extend almost indefinitely and a complete screening by the Ethical Investment Research Service (EIRIS) would eliminate 60% of the FTSE 100 index.You can screen out negative factors or adopt a positive screening process and select companies with a clear environmental policy, for example.An ethical fund or portfolio of shares requires an appropriate performance benchmark. It will not reflect the market movements as a whole as it will hold a higher than average proportion of smaller companies which are much more volatile than blue chips.EIRIS maintains a database which you can use to filter an existing portfolio or to build one from scratch, using your own selection of a wide range of criteria. EIRIS: 020 7840 5700. e-mail: ethics@eiris.org website http://www.eiris.orgIn February 2000 FTSE International launched a set of stock indices called FTSE4Good. This is a tradeable and benchmark index which requires member companies to meet certain ethical standards for inclusion. Reinvestment effectReinvestment effectThe impact of a change in interest rates on the reinvestment rate. ReinvestmentReinvestmentUse of investment income to buy additional securities. Many mutual fund companies and investment services offer the automatic reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions as an option investors. Further SuggestionsFuture investment opportunitiesContrarian investing Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) Tradepoint Investment Exchange investment club Investment Company Institute (ICI) Disinvest Investors Compensation Scheme Legal investments Passive investing Investment bank Green field investment Statutory investment Vesting Schedule investment business investment grade Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) Email harvesting Investor relations Unit Share Investment Trust (USIT) Early harvest return on investment approved investment trust Foreign portfolio investment Investment |
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