1. A good way to gain a lot of income with minimal volatility is with a .......... rate fund invested in bank loans; banks make these loans to companies as part of leveraged buyout deals and then sell them to mutual funds and other institutional investors.

2. The internationally-accepted transfer pricing standard applied for tax purposes is the .......... price; this standard separates tax considerations from economic decisions and promotes international trade and investment growth.

3. A .......... recommendation is a good way to gain a broad view, but it doesn't necessarily offer the best solution for the investor; the criteria used by each analyst may vary, so it should be considered only as an indicator.

4. .......... limited partnerships are partnerships in which new limited partners buy the existing properties in order to receive tax advantages that the old partners can no longer claim.

5. Typically, .......... loans are collateralized, reducing the lender's credit exposure to the borrower; the collateral may be a letter of credit, cash, or other stocks, bonds or investments.

6. The direct .......... method of transfer from employer-sponsored plan to employee IRA allows the latter to avoid IRS withholding tax deducted with a distribution by the company plan to the employee, even if the employee intends to place it immediately into an IRA.

7. The bond's .......... value is its value disregarding its share conversion option and based solely on its future cash payments (its maturity value plus coupons).

8. You should invest in mutual funds with a low portfolio .......... ratio, which means that the fund manager does less buying-and-selling and more buying-and-holding, thus making the fund more tax-efficient and helping you in the long run.

9. The foundation of .......... pricing theory is the concept that a security's price is driven by several factors, both company-specific factors and macro factors.

10. Including such names as BMW and Bayer, the .......... 100 is the abbreviation for Deutscher Aktienindex 100, which is a price-weighted index for Germany's top one hundred stocks.