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  2. Folio - Wikipedia

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    The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...

  3. Page numbering - Wikipedia

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    Page number in a book. Page numbering is the process of applying a sequence of numbers (or letters, or Roman numerals) to the pages of a book or other document. The number itself, which may appear in various places on the page, can be referred to as a page number or as a folio. [1]

  4. Recto and verso - Wikipedia

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    The reading order of each folio remains first verso, then recto, regardless of writing direction. The terms are carried over into printing ; recto-verso [ 4 ] is the norm for printed books but was an important advantage of the printing press over the much older Asian woodblock printing method, which printed by rubbing from behind the page being ...

  5. Portfolio (finance) - Wikipedia

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    There are many types of portfolios including the market portfolio and the zero-investment portfolio. [3] A portfolio's asset allocation may be managed utilizing any of the following investment approaches and principles: dividend weighting, equal weighting, capitalization-weighting, price-weighting, risk parity, the capital asset pricing model, arbitrage pricing theory, the Jensen Index, the ...

  6. What is a bank holding company? Definition and examples

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    Chase Bank is the consumer banking division of holding company JPMorgan Chase & Co., which has $3.4 trillion in assets. Nearly half of U.S. households are customers of Chase, according to the bank ...

  7. History of banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rothbard, Murray N., History of Money and Banking in the United States.Full text (510 pages) in pdf format, A libertarian interpretation; Schweikart, Larry, ed. Banking and Finance to 1913 (1990), an encyclopedia with short articles by experts Schweikart, Larry, ed. Banking and Finance, 1913-1989 (1990), an encyclopedia with short articles by ...

  8. Ledger - Wikipedia

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    The ledger is a permanent summary of all amounts entered in supporting journals (day books) which list individual transactions by date. Usually every transaction, or a total of a series of transactions, flows from a journal to one or more ledgers.

  9. Portfolio optimization - Wikipedia

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    Portfolio optimization is the process of selecting an optimal portfolio (asset distribution), out of a set of considered portfolios, according to some objective.The objective typically maximizes factors such as expected return, and minimizes costs like financial risk, resulting in a multi-objective optimization problem.