Morningstar Rating System

10-K, 12b-1 funds, Accelerated Cost Recovery System, Adjusted balance method, Adjusted basis, Allowance for depreciation, Average collection period, Automatic Funds Transfer, At par, All or any part, At best, At call, Automated Order Entry System, Adjusted futures price, At risk, Add-on service, As is, Attorney in fact, Asset-based finance, Asset-based lending, Aggressive growth fund, A shares, Asset allocation fund, Average price per share, At the money, Across the board, Additional paid-in capital, Ad valorem, Against the box, At the bell, At the close, At the figure, At the full, At the market, At the opening order, Automated Pricing and Reporting System, Away from the market, Below the line, Book value per share, Balanced fund, Best ask, Best bid, Blend fund, Bond fund, Best efforts offering, Best-execution requirement, Brought over the wall, Buying on margin, Buy on close, Buy on opening, Buy the book, Basic earnings per share, Base interest rate, Base period, Base-year analysis, Breaking the syndicate, By the book, Base rate, Benchmark risk, B shares, Blackout period, Broad-base index, Base, Beat the gun, Clearinghouse funds, Call risk, Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures, Credit risk, Chasing the market, Country risk, Contract for deed, Correspondency system, Cost of funds, Cure period, Capital appreciation fund, Clone fund, Closed-end fund, Closed fund, Crossover fund, C shares, Close to the money, Counterparty risk, Cloud on title, Cash or Deferred Arrangement, Class A Shares, Class B Shares, Close a position, Cornering the market, Curbs in, Deposit in transit, Distribution period, Dividend in arrears, Desk (the), Doing business as, Debtor in possession, Debtor-in-possession financing, Default risk, Due-on-sale clause, Dual-purpose fund, Deep in the money, Deep out of the money, Diversifiable risk, Dogs of the Dow, Downside risk, Electronic Funds Transfer, Equity risk premium, Event risk, External funds, Either-or order, European Monetary System, E-mini, Exchange for futures, Exchange for physical, Excluded risk, Enhanced index fund, Environmental fund, Equity fund, Exchange fund, First In First Out, Form 10-Q, Federal funds, Fed funds, Flow of funds, Fill or kill, Front-ending an order, Fund supermarket, Forward P/E, Fully diluted earnings per share, Fee-for-service, Form 8-K, Form S-1, Fund, Financial risk, Family of funds, Focused fund, Fund family, Fund manager, Fund of funds, G-7, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, G-8, Global fund, Grace period, Growth and income fund, Growth fund, Gather in the stops, Hit the bid, Heir, Holder in due course, HUD-1 statement, Hedge fund, Holding period, Hammering the market, Held at the opening, Holding the market, In escrow, Interest rate risk, In-house, In line, International Monetary Fund, Inc., In intestacy, In play, In-process research and development, Income fund, Income risk, Index fund, Institutional fund, International fund, Investment fund, I/O strip, In-service withdrawal, Idiosyncratic risk, In and out, In sympathy, Intermarket Trading System, In the tank, Jumping the gun, Just title, Last In First Out, Limited risk, Lending at a rate, Limit-on-close order, Limit order information system, Lockup period, Legal risk, Lock-in, Lifecycle fund, Load-adjusted return, Load fund, Leading the market, Locked in, Long-term gain or loss, Level I quotes, Mutual association, Mutual company, Mutual Savings Bank, Municipal bond fund, Muni fund, Make a market, Market on close order, Money at call, Morning loan, Mortgage risk, Morningstar Rating System, Mutual fund, Mutual fund custodian, Mutual fund symbol, Matching funds, Mutual exclusion doctrine, Mutual improvement certificate, National Market System, National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations system, Notice period, Off the books, Over-the-Counter, On-floor order, On margin, Or better, On account, On-the-spot loan, Open-end fund, Option income fund, Out of the money, On-balance volume, On close, One man picture, On open, On the opening, Pro forma, Payment-in-kind security, Performance bond, Premium over bond value, Premium over conversion value, Price Value of a Basis Point, Payment for order flow, P&L, Primary earnings per share, Provision for income taxes, Performance, Per stirpes, Pour-over will, Prepayment risk, Principal risk, Performance-based compensation, Pooled fund, Prime rate fund, Publicly-traded fund, Pure index fund, Pension fund, Paid-in capital, Paid-in surplus, Payback period, Percent held by institutions, Private Investment in Public Equity, Painting the tape, Quiet period, Return on Capital, Return on Invested Capital, Return on Total Assets, Risk adjusted return, Risk, Reading the tape, Regulation D, Regulation G, Regulation T, Regulation U, Rule 15c3-1, Regional fund, Reinvestment risk, Regulation A, Reverse Take-Over, Roll over, Redemption period, Risk/return trade-off, Risk arbitrage, Risk-averse, Risk management, Risk neutral, Risk premium, Risk seeking, Return on Capital Employed, Risk capital, SG&A, Savings Association Insurance Fund, S&L, Sinking fund, Sell the book, Small Order Execution System, Systemic risk, Sector fund, Series fund, Socially responsible fund, Specialized fund, Specialty fund, Stock fund, Selling the spread, Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees, Split-adjusted price, Selling short against the box, Shorting against the box, S Corporation, Short-term gain or loss, Subchapter M, Subchapter S Corporation, Same Day Funds Settlement, Schedule C, Seek a market, S&P phenomenon, T-Bill, Take a position, Trailing P/E, Tenancy by the entirety, Trust fund, TED spread, Truth in Lending, Tax-free bond fund, Tax-managed fund, Tenancy at will, The Street, Timing the market, Taxable wage base, Tax base, Take a bath, U.S. Government Agency Security, U.S. Savings Bond, U.S. Treasury, U.S. Treasury Bill, U.S. Treasury Bond, U.S. Treasury Note, U.S. Treasury Securities, Unlimited risk, Unsystematic risk, Vesting period, World fund, W-2 Form, W formation, When, as, and if issued, X or XD, Year-over-year, Yield to worst, Y shares, Zero-base budgeting