Index

A

ABN AMRO, 456

Account maintenance fees, 617

Accredited investors, 591

Actual reserves, 78

Actuaries, 550

Add-on instruments, 207

Adjustable-rate mortgages (ARM), 272–276

bank failure and, 481

hybrid, 274

interest rate caps and, 274–275

prepayment penalties, 276

pricing risk transfers and, 275–276

rate adjustments and, 272, 274

Adjustable-rate preferred stocks, 305

Advances, 514

Adverse selection, 21, 22, 102, 105, 559

Advisory fees, mutual fund, 617

Affiliate banks, foreign, 455

After-tax yield comparisons, 253–254

Agency securities, 29

Aggressive growth funds, 611

Aggressive stocks, 324

Agreement corporations, 455

Agricultural loans, 420–421

Alcoa, 444

Allocative function, interest rates and, 116–117

All-risk coverage, 565–566

Ambac Financial Group, 261

American Bankers Association (ABA), 526