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DHULFIKAR STEWARD — Plain-English Financial Glossary
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Financial terms explained in plain language
- Client interest
- What is in the client's best interests.
- Capital allocation
- Deciding where money is best used: saving, investing, repaying debt, hiring people or doing something else.
- Investment research
- Investigating whether an investment makes sense and which evidence supports that conclusion.
- Portfolio risk
- Examining how vulnerable a group of investments is when considered together.
- Quant / quantitative analysis
- Financial analysis using mathematics, statistics and models.
- Model risk
- The risk that a model produces wrong or misleading results.
- Trading & execution
- How a buy or sell order is executed and what execution really costs.
- Treasury
- Managing cash, currencies, reserves and future payment obligations.
- Liquidity
- How quickly money can be accessed without major damage or loss.
- Credit affordability
- Not just whether you can obtain credit, but whether you can responsibly afford it.
- Mortgage affordability
- Whether a mortgage remains genuinely affordable, including other housing costs and unexpected setbacks.
- Risk transfer
- Partly transferring a risk, for example through insurance.
- Compliance
- Acting in accordance with applicable rules, duties and standards of conduct.
- Conduct
- How an organisation behaves towards customers and other people.
- Governance
- Who can make decisions, who provides oversight and who is responsible.
- Runway
- How long a business can continue operating with its current funds.
- Dilution
- A reduction in your percentage ownership when new shares are issued.
- Operating value creation
- Improving the way an organisation operates to create genuine value.
- Consumer protection
- Protecting customers from deception, unclear fees, fraud and unfair treatment.
- Vulnerability
- A situation in which someone faces a greater risk of financial harm or difficulty understanding information or decisions.
- Resilience
- Being able to continue functioning, or to recover, when something goes wrong.
- Counterfactual
- A thought experiment: what would we recommend if an important circumstance were different?
- No-compensation counterfactual
- Would we still recommend this if neither DHULFIKAR nor the provider earned any money from it?
- Evidence
- Verifiable information supporting a conclusion.
- API
- A technical interface that allows other software to communicate with STEWARD in a controlled way.
- White-label
- DHULFIKAR technology that another organisation uses under its own brand.
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Status: STEWARD is currently a pre-launch decision-support and evidence architecture. It does not replace a banking licence, lawyer, accountant, investment adviser, lender, insurer or other authorised professional.
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