Weekly mortgage applications soar as rates head lower

Refinance applications jump 26% in the past week Mortgage applications climb 15% Refinance applications soared 26% last week compared with the week prior, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Total mortgage applications were up 15.1%. These figures are expected to rise after the Fed cut interest rates by 0.50 % and 10-Year U.S. Treasury yields fell…

Target-Risk Fund

What Is a Target-Risk Fund? A target-risk fund is a type of investment fund with a portfolio asset allocation that holds a diversified mix of stocks, bonds, and other investments to create a desired risk profile. The fund manager of a target-risk fund is responsible for overseeing all the securities owned within the fund to…

Definition, Main Components, Analysis, and Example

What Is Detection Risk? Detection risk is the chance that an auditor will fail to find material misstatements that exist in an entity’s financial statements. These misstatements may be due to either fraud or error. Auditors make use of audit procedures to detect these misstatements. However, because of the nature of audit procedures, some detection risk…

Top 12 times when you’re too polite when you shouldn’t, damn good manners

The problem with being too nice is that you get walked on all the time. We dare not say no, we constantly apologize and people take advantage of it because they have no race. And then, even when you’re not nicer than that, there are situations where you’re always polite when in real life, you…

Feeder Fund

What Is a Feeder Fund? A feeder fund is one of several sub-funds that put all of their investment capital into an overarching umbrella fund, known as a master fund, for which a single investment advisor handles all portfolio investments and trading. This two-tiered investment structure of a feeder fund and a master fund is…