= portfolio protection

The use of a financial futures and options market to protect the value of a portfolio of investments. For example, a fund manager may expect the general level of prices to fall on the stock exchange. The manager could protect the portfolio by selling the appropriate number of prices.

• interest-rate risk management
• interest-rate spread
• interest-rate swap
• interest-sensitive
• interest yield
• interim accounts
• interim dividend
• interim financial statements
• interim report
• intermarket spread swap
• Intermarket Trading System
• intermediary
• intermediate-term
• intermediation
• internal audit
• internal capital generation rate
• internal control
• internal growth
• internal rate of return
• Internal Revenue Code
• Internal Revenue Service
• International Accounting Standards Board
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
• International Banking Credit Agency
• international banking facility