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Chapter 2 investment
personal finance
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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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