Cornering a market is an economic strategy aimed at acquiring all or most of a category of resources or goods that make up a market, in order to cause scarcity and drive up prices.

The term originates from the English phrase "cornering the market," which refers to manipulating a market by controlling the supply and sales to artificially create a situation of shortage in a sector, and then reselling the goods at significantly higher prices.

A french bearer security is a financial instrument where ownership is presumed to belong to the holder of the physical (or dematerialized) certificate. The issuing entity does not record the holder or the transfer of the security from one holder to another in its register. The presentation of coupons (physically detached in the case of a physical security) triggers the payment of subsequent financial flows by the issuer.

Collateralized fund obligations (CFOs) backed by private equity fund assets or hedge fund assets are bond securities similar to collateralized debt obligation (CDO), except that they are based not on cash flows from "traditional" debt obligations, but on interest payments tied to the performance of a pool of hedge funds or private equity funds.