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| Fees paid to the mutual fund company when selling a mutual fund. |
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| Quarterly payout of profits by a company to all shareholders. |
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| A insurance where if your investments or the bank fail the FDIC will pay back your inital investment. |
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| A entry requirment to get into certian mutual funds. |
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| A safe area to place your money with very low intreset rate. |
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| A comparison of how the fund has done compared to how it started out. |
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| For a savings account, the Percentage of intrest earned annually. For a stock, the annual dividend divided by the share price. |
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| Fees paid to the mutual fund company when selling a mutual fund. |
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| Quarterly payout of profits by a company to all shareholders. |
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| A insurance where if your investments or the bank fail the FDIC will pay back your inital investment. |
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| A entry requirment to get into certian mutual funds. |
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| A safe area to place your money with very low intreset rate. |
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| A comparison of how the fund has done compared to how it started out. |
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| For a savings account, the Percentage of intrest earned annually. For a stock, the annual dividend divided by the share price. |
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| Separate types of investments, such as stocks/stock mutual funds, bonds/bond funds, money market accounts, and international stock funds. Each asset class has typical risks and returns, and a certain investment within that class may perform better or worse then its peers. |
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| When you sell a stock for more than you paid for it, the diffrence is called a captial gain. Capital gains are income that must be reported on taxes. |
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| When what you sell a stock for is less than what you originally paid for a stock, the diffrence is called capital loss. |
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| A share in a company's assets and profits. The ownership of a publicly traded company is split up into the shares of a stock being traded and held. |
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| Money paid by a corp. to each shareholder, typically given four times a year, these distributions of company profits can be used to reinvest in more share of the company. |
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| A type of mutual fund or account that invests in short term, liqid investments. These funds generally pay better then a savings account. |
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| A pool of stocks, bonds, and other securities managed by an investment company. |
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| A incorporated business that does not trade shares of stock on an open market. |
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| A business owned jointly by all stockholders. |
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| The annual amount of money an investment makes, given as a percentage. |
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| The chance of loseing value from stocks, or gaining from them. |
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| Monetary increase that an investment makes. |
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| A time with generally falling stock prices. |
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| Stocks issued by soild and reliable companies with long records of growth and stability. |
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| Money loaned to the government, corporations, or municipalites that pays the investor interest. Different types of bonds can be more or less risky, and bonds can have high yields or low yields (interest rates). |
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| A time with generally rising stock prices. |
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| Stocks of companies that produce such staples as food, beverages, and pharmaceuticals, and insurance companies. |
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| Owning a collection of investments such as stocks from diffrent industries and small and large companies, bonds, and money market funds for cash, in order to rspread risk and have a safer investment overall. |
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| Stocks of companies that generally do not pay dividends or pay only very small dividends. |
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| The collection of investments you personally hold, including stocks, bonds, money market accounts, and savings accounts. |
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| Stocks of very large companies such as WalMart, General Electric, and IBM, that have a market capitallization of between $10 billion and $200 billion. |
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| A collection of investments tailored to your investment risk tolerance and time horizon. |
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| Stocks of largely unkown companies with smaller market capitlization, that is, dollar value of total stock ownership. |
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| The difficulty of getting to your money. The more liquid it is the easier to get to the money and vice versa. |
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| The real chance of a investment paying off. Determines if its worth the risk. |
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| A chunk of stock owned by a outside individual. The stock itself is dependent on the company. |
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