Chartered Asset Manager – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Business Finance, Personal Finance, and Valuation Principles

What is a Chartered Asset Manager?Chartered Asset Managers are professionals who are skilled in asset management. These sets of professionals are certified by an accredited institute, especially the American Academy of Financial Management (AAFM). CAM is also a...

Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst?The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) is a certification that guarantees that the holder has completed the level I and II examinations and the holder can be regarded as a specialist in Alternative...

Commercial Paper Funding Facility – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Commercial Paper Funding Facility?The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is a parenting company of the Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF). The CPFF was founded on 27th October 2008, saddled with the responsibility of providing solutions to the credit...

Feeder Fund – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is a Feeder Fund?A feeder fund is a type of investment fund that funds most of its investments through a master fund. A feeder fund has all of its investment capital in the master fund. The relationship between a feeder fund and a master fund is primarily used by...

Aggregation – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Investments, Trading, and Financial Markets

What is Aggregation?Aggregation refers to an act of grouping items or things as a whole. This term can be used in various contexts, disciplines, and industries.  Data Analysis – In data analysis, aggregation refers to the compilation of information which is used...

Closing Ratio – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Sales

What is a Closing Ratio?In sales, the closing ratio measures the number of business proposals and presentations by salespersons that are converted into actual sales. It is also a measure of the number of business deals that sales experts close which is used to...

Minimum Efficient Scale – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy

What is Minimum Efficient Scale?Minimum efficient scale refers to the lowest point on the long-run average cost curve where the firm can achieve economies of scale.  How to Determine the Minimum Efficient Scale When it comes to classical economies, MES is the lowest...

Mechanism Design Theory – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Economic Analysis & Monetary Policy

What is Mechanism Design Theory?Mechanism design theory refers to an approach in economics that tries to study how particular results or outcomes are achieved. Economists use this theory to compare, analyze, and regulate some instruments associated with a specific...

Media Effect – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Principles of Marketing

What is the Media Effect?The media effect refers to how particular news and stories that the media transmits can influence people and society. The media can pass the information to people using different means such as film, radio, television, newspapers, magazines,...

Lower of Cost or Market Method – Explained

by TheBusinessProfessor | Feb 23, 2025 | Managerial & Financial Accounting & Reporting

What is the Lower of Cost or Market Method? The lower of cost or market method refers to an inventory costing approach that values a company’s stock on the balance sheet either at its current market cost or historical cost. The term historical cost refers to the...