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Chapter 2 investment
personal finance
Term | Definition |
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Aggressive Growth Stock Mutual Field | Mutual fund that seeks to provide maximum long term capital growth from Stocs |
Annuity | Contract sold by an insurance company, designed to provide payments to the holder at specified intervals |
Bond | debt instrument where an issuer such as a corporation municipally or government agency owes you money. |
C.D. | Certificate of deposit usually at a ban. |
Commodity | a food, metal, or physically substance that investors buy or sell usually via future contracts. |
Diversification | the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered) |
dividend | a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves). |
Fixed Annuity | an exemption granted after influence (e.g., money) is brought to bear |
Futures | Fixed-income budgeters and investors are often one and the same |
investents | Fixed investment in economics refers to investment in fixed capital |
Growth Stock Mutual Funds | these are funds that buy stock in companies that are medium in size. They have grown and are still expanding. Also called mid-cap fund. |
Large-Cap Fund | A fund that invests primarily in large cap stocks. |
Liquidity | the availability of liquid assets to a market or company. |
Mid=cap Fund | A fund that invests primarily in the stocks of companies with a medium market capitalization |
Money Market | the trade in short-term loans between banks and other financial institutions. |
Risk | a situation involving exposure to danger. |
International stock | (International stocks) MCSI Europe, Australia, Far East Index (EAFE) https://www.myfloridadeferredcomp.com/SOFweb/RFTP/hist_performance.htm |
Risk/Return Ratio | Relationship of substantial reward corresponding to the amount of risk taken. |
Savings Account | a bank account that earns interest |
Share | a part or portion of a larger amount that is divided among a number of people, or to which a number of people contribute. |
Single Stocks | are futures contracts with the underlying asset being one particular stock, usually in batches of 100. When purchased, no transmission of share rights or dividends occurs |
Small-Cap Fund | A mutual fund consisting of stocks in smaller, younger companies whose total stock is worth roughly $1 billion or less, though each fund has its own policy about where to draw the line |
Speculative | (of an investment) involving a high risk of loss. |
Track Record | the best recorded performance in a particular track-and-field event at a particular track. |
Vailable Annuity | Immunology Inherited, acquired, or induced resistance to infection by a specific pathogen |
Draw Jones Average | Faster movements may demand animation "on ones" with a new drawing in each frame, |
Standard and Poor 500 | The S&P 500 is a free-float capitalization-weighted index published since 1957 of the prices of 500 large-cap common stocks actively traded in the United States |
New York Stock Exchange | stock exchange in New York |
American Stock Exchange | Stock Exchange in New York |
Nasdaq | A global electronic marketplace for buying and selling securities, as well as the benchmark index for U.S. technology stocks. |
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