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Buy or sell limit order will expire at close of trading if not executed.

Someone prepared to accept calculated risks in the marketplace for attractive potential returns.

Buy or sell limit order remains active until you cancel it.

Capital and preferred shares issued by a split-share corporation. A split-share corporation holds common shares of one or more companies. The corporation then issues two classes of shares – capital shares and preferred shares. The objective is to generate fixed, cumulative, preferential dividends for the holders of preferred shares and to enable the holders of the capital shares to participate in any capital appreciation (or depreciation) in the underlying common shares.

An order placed with a broker meaning that it is good until either filled or canceled. In practice, this order has to be re-confirmed twice annually.

Borrowings that must be repaid within one-year. 

Growth at a reasonable price. A strategy of buying stocks whose price/earnings ratio is equal to or less than the estimated annual earnings growth rate.

Accounting rules and procedures established by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, an independent self-regulating organization. 

Stocks and other liquid securities. 

Mutual funds specializing in a specific geographic area such as Europe.