Introduction To Investing Vocab List
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| Bond | A form of lending to a company or the government (city, state, or federal).
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| Dividend | The share of profits distributed in cash.
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| Financial Risk Pyramid | Illustrates the trade-offs between risk and return for a number of saving and investing tools.
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| Index | A group of similar stocks and bonds.
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| index Fund | A mutual fund that was designed to reduce fees by investing in the stocks and bonds that make up an index.
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| Inflation | The rise in the general level of prices.
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| Inflation Risk | The danger that money won't be worth as much in the future as it is today.
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| Investing | The purchase of assets with the goal of increasing future income.
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| Investment Philosophy | An individual's general approach to investment risk.
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| Investment Risk | The possibility that an investment will fail to pay the expected return or fail to pay a return at all.
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| Market Price | The current price that a buyer is willing to pay for stock.
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| Maturity Date | The specified time in the future when the principal (or initial investment) amount of the bond is repaid to the bondholder.
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| Portfolio Diversification | Reduces risk by spreading investment money among a wide array of investment tools.
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| Rate Of Return | The total return on an investment expressed as a percentage of the amount of money invested.
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| Risk | The uncertainty regarding the outcome of a situation or event.
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| Rule Of 72 | Allows a person to easily calculate when the future value of an investment will double the principal amount.
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| Speculative Investments | Have the potential for significant fluctuations in return over a short period of time.
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| Stock | A share of ownership in a company.
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| Stockholder Or Shareholder | The owner of a stock.
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| Tax-sheltered Investments | Eliminate, reduce, defer, of adjust the current year tax liability.
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