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Four types of health insurance plans that are differentiated based on the average percentage of health-care expenses that will be paid by the plan. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the U.S. health reform enacted March 23, 2010, health insurance plans are offered in four actuarial levels: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. The level defines the amount of expenses each type of plan covers. The higher the actuarial value (i.e. Gold and Platinum), the more the plan will pay, on average, toward health-care expenses; the lower the actuarial value (Bronze and Silver), the less the plan will pay.
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Volumetric Production Payment (VPP) is a structured investment in which the owner of an oil and gas interest is selling a specific volume productio ...
Value Line Index
Value Line Index refers to a stock index that consists of about 1,675 companies from the New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, ...
eXtensible Business Reporting Language - XBRL
Standard developed to improve the method financial data is conveyed, making exchanging of business information easier. It is a type of XML, a speci ...
Perfect Competition
A market structure where the following five standards are met:
All firms sell an same product;
All firms are price tak ...
Cardboard Box Index
Index measuring industrial production by using the number of cardboard boxes to evaluate purchases of consumer goods. Acts as an industrial indicat ...
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Ethical Investing: Leaving an Ethical Imprint
After selecting the rightful ethical investments and making it work, it is about to decide how to disburse your assets after you die. You have two ...
An Introduction to Insurance
Most people in the world own insurance. Insurance take a lot of forms such as medical insurance, automobile insurance, and the most common of them ...
Principles of Trading: Risk Management
It is imperative for traders to master risk management, which includes knowing how much you could lose per trade or over time and evaluating the pe ...
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