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Rating Agency
Moody's or S&P or an internationally recognised securities rating agency which shall be substituted for S&P or Moody's or both.

Recognised Market

  1. any stock exchange in a Member State of the European Union which operates regularly and is recognised and open to the public, any market organised by the International Securities Markets Association and any market comprising listed money market institutions described in the Bank of England Publication, The regulation of the wholesale cash and OTC derivatives markets (In sterling, foreign currency and bullion) dated December 1995, as amended or superceded or replaced from time to time;
  2. any stock exchange established within the United States, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand and Norway;
  3. any market comprising dealers regulated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or any market comprising dealers regulated by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the National Association of Securities Dealers; and
  4. any stock exchange or regulated market which is provided for in the Trust Deed.

Return on assets
Measures profitability by reporting the percentage earned on assets calculated by dividing 12 months of net income by total assets.

Return on equity
An amount, expressed as a percentage, earned on a company's common stock investment for a specific time frame. This figure tells shareholders how effectively their money is being utilised.

Risk tolerance
An investor's ability or willingness to endure declines in the prices of investments while waiting for them to increase in value.

R-squared
A measure of how much of a portfolio's performance can be explained by the returns from the overall market (or a benchmark index). If a portfolio's total return precisely matched that of the overall market or benchmark, it's R-squared would be 1.00. If a portfolio's return bore no relationship to the market's returns, its R-squared would be 0.


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