Category: B

Observable patterns of behavior you see in your prospects that govern their buying decisions. For example, you might see that your customers buy more from e-mail campaigns than sales letter pages.

Obtaining a lower interest rate (buying down the rate) by paying additional points to the lender. The lower rate may apply to the full duration of the loan or just the first few years.

A purchase of shares by a broker after a seller has failed to deliver similar shares, the original seller being charged any difference in cost or a purchase of shares in a company by managers who are not employed by it.

Also known as a buyout agreement, is a binding agreement between co-owners of a business that governs what happens if a co-owner dies or is otherwise forced to leave the business, or chooses to leave the business.

A buy-side analyst usually works for a pension fund or mutual fund company. These individuals perform research and make recommendations to the money managers of the fund that employs them. Buy-side analysts will determine how promising an investment seems and how well it coincides with the fund’s investment strategy; they’ll base their recommendations on this evidence.

A form of borrowing in which shares or bonds are sold with an agreement to repurchase them at a later date or the buying back by a company of its own shares.

A buydown is a mortgage financing technique where the buyer attempts to obtain a lower interest rate for at least the first few years of the mortgage.

In old English law. Short pieces of land left unplowed at the ends of fields, where the plow was turned about, (otherwise called “headlands,”) as sidelings were similar unplowed pieces on the sides. Burrill. Also a place where bowmen meet to shoot at a mark.

A phrase used in conveyancing, to describe the end lines or circumscribing lines of a certain piece of land. The phrase “metes and bounds” has the same meaning.

A local term in the north of England, for the associate or deputy of another ; also of things used in common.