Proxy
Authority to act for another, or the person with the power to do so. In the investment world, a proxy may be solicited from shareholders so that management can vote their shares.
Proxy Statement
The SEC requires that shareholders of a company whose securities are registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 receive a proxy statement prior to a shareholder meeting, whether an annual or special meeting.
Proxy Contest
If you own shares of stock in a company that's involved with a proxy contest, then it's important to understand how that contest can affect the price of that stock.
A proxy firm is a company hired by corporate shareholders to cast proxy statement votes on their behalf. The top two proxy firms are Glass, Lewis & Co. and RiskMetrics/Institutional Shareholder Services.
Definition
Proxy
A written or electronic authorization used by a shareholder to authorize someone else to vote on their behalf at a shareholders meeting. Corporations must send out proxies to all shareholders.
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Market Proxy
What It Is:
A market proxy is a variable that theoretically simulates the behavior of the overall market.
A vote by proxy is a vote that is mailed in or cast in some other way while the person voting is physically absent.
Use of an inappropriate Proxy for the true Market portfolio.
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PROXY Document intended to provide shareholders with information necessary to vote in an informed manner on matters to be brought up at a stockholders meeting. Includes information on closely held shares.
Proxy Hedge
A term to describe when it is necessary to hedge against a currency where there is no market but it follows a major currency, the hedge is entered against the major currency.
Proxy Statement
Material given to stockholders when the corporation solicits shareholder votes. In effect, the company seeks temporary delegation of your voting rights.
Proxy: A security or index whose correlation with another security or index is so strong that it is used as a substitute for the other. For example, General Electric has a very high correlation to the performance of the S&P 500.
Proxy Fight
An attempt by a dissident group to take over the management of a corporation, sending proxies electing them to the board while the current management sends proxies favoring themselves. Shareholders vote between one proxy or the other.
Proxy: Anybody who votes on another person's behalf if the person is unable to attend a shareholders' meeting.
Proxy Statement Information provided to stockholders in conjunction with the solicitation of proxies. (See: Proxy Vote)
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Proxy
A proxy is the authorization or power of attorney, signed by a stockholder assigning the right to vote their shares to another party.
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When a stock follows a sector, index or commodity so close that you can substitute it for the other.
A relative small drop in price in a prevailing uptrend.
Proxy
Written power of attorney given by a shareholder of a corporation, authorizing someone to vote on his or her behalf at corporate meetings.
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Proxy Statement
Explains a corporation's executive compensation plans.
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Proxy: A device that sits between a computer and the internet.
Range Action Verification Index (RAVI): Indicator that can be used to determine whether an FX instrument is trending. The higher the RAVI value, the stronger the trend.
Proxy
A written authorization by a shareholder allowing a representative to vote for or against business proposals and directors at annual meetings. The results of these votes are announced at the meeting.
Proxy: Giving written authorization to another person, generally someone in management, to vote for you at a shareholder's meeting.
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Proxy Statement - A document which contains a variety of corporate information such as top management pay, a five-year performance graph that compares the stock against relevant indexes, and information concerning a company's Board of Directors.
Proxy - Written authorization given by a shareholder to someone else to represent him or her and vote his or her shares at a shareholders meeting.
Proxy Statement
Proxy Statement - A proxy statement is a document which the Stock Exchange Committee requires a company to send to their shareholders. This document provides facts concerning matters on which shareholders have to vote.
Proxy statement: A document mailed with a proxy that gives information about the company or group seeking the proxy votes and matters scheduled for consideration at the shareholders meetings.
Proxy Solicitor
A specialist (firm) hired to gather proxy votes.
Proxy statement
Document intended to provide shareholders with information necessary to vote in an informed manner on matters to be brought up at a stockholders' meeting.
Proxy: As a stockholder, you have a voice in how the company is run. A proxy is a mail in vote on naming a board of directors or other proposal that mandates a shareholders approval.
Proxy: A written authorization by a stockholder giving his voting rights to someone else. Shareholders who cannot attend the annual meeting usually give their proxies to someone else, often to management.
Proxy
A proxy is a device that acts as an intermediary between a computer and the Internet. Proxies often have a cache built in to make Web surfing faster, and some also allow the filtering of Web content for security purposes.
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Proxy Statement
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Proxy Voting Notification is a selection made by you as to how you prefer to receive proxy information sent to you. You may choose either U.S. mail or e-mail.
PROXY SOLICITATION. The request to be authorized to vote on someone else's behalf. A proxy statement must be provided to shareholders prior to soliciting
their proxies.
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Disinflation
A period when the inflation rate is positive but declining over time....
The proxy I've been using is IMAX's share of opening weekend results. IMAX screens generally account for 2%-3% of screens on opening weekend and results for both IMAX screens and the general domestic box office are readily available from IMAX.
Price proxy for indicator
Post-smoothing of indicators
Price above/below MA filter
MA cross-overs, etc...
forward proxy
forward rate
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Omnibus Proxy
A list issued by depositories detailing their participants, and their holdings, and authorizing the participants to vote their proxies directly. This type of proxies are issued by Cede & Co. and by certain bank custodians.
Valuation Proxy for PE Ratios
Perpetual Income Statement For Merchandising Operations
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The Risk Proxy EB You'll Model for Valuing Stock
This method of valuing stock does not consider risk and beta, which is used by other models. Instead, this method uses proxies to evaluate risk.
proxy A written authorization given by a shareholder for someone else, generally the... proxy contest A strategy that a firm may take in the case of a hostile takeover. A proxy contest...
Proxy
Written authorization given by a shareholder to a third party to represent and vote shares at a meeting of shareholders.
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Other approaches might be unsolicited merger proposals to directors, accumulations of shares in the open market, or Proxy Fights that seek to install new directors.
This assumption has been made, amongst others, by Goodhart and Figliuoli (1991) and Bollerslev and Domowitz (1993), who prefer to use quote arrival as a proxy for market activity, than transaction volume, because quotes signal a willingness to trade.
For this exercise, we'll assume we started out with $10,000 in January of 2008, and for a proxy of the general market, we'll use the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average (DIA).
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A currency is a proxy for the country it represents, therefore the economic health of that country is priced into the currency. Economic indicators measure the health of an economy.
Market watchers also keep a close eye on Treasuries as a proxy for all U.S. interest rates. Until recently, the 30-year Treasury bond, also called the long bond, was considered the benchmark for interest rates.
General proxy voting rights are not applicable with registered shares: That means - the shareholder must appoint a bank or representative to act as proxy and vote in his stead in accordance with the shareholder's instructions.
If the security is a common stock, you also have the right to vote on certain items at the corporation's annual meeting or by proxy.
The coefficient of proportionality can also be thought of as a proxy for the intraday correlation between the pairs - or as a method to estimate the intraday correlation between the two pairs by using only the levels recorded in their daily ...
The most familiar of all indexes, often just called "The Dow" and the overall proxy for the market. The Dow comprises the weighted stock price of the 30 Industrial companies picked by the Dow Jones company.
ETFs had their genesis in 1989 with Index Participation Shares, an S&P 500 proxy that traded on the American Stock Exchange and the Philadelphia Stock Exchange.
Metrics such as price/earnings ratio and dividend yield on the S&P 500 index, a commonly used proxy for the U.S. stock market, are hardly at bargain levels.
Canadian Pacific Rail Proxy Fight
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Publish Date: Monday, February 13, 2012
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the S&P 500 Index is the proxy for the market. The index holds companies that represent sectors of the overall economy. Its performance says something about future prospects for the economy and U.S. business.
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Because of their dominant activity, $SPX options represent a good proxy for implied volatility of the market as a whole.
The entitlement of ordinary shareholders to vote in person or by proxy at annual meetings or annual general meetings.
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The nice thing about P/E is that accounting earnings are a much better proxy for cash flow than sales, and they are more up-to-date than book value.
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