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| is the income that an investment produces. |
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| is the degree to which an investment's return or value may change. |
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| is the possibility of variation in the return on your investment. |
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| is a strategy of making a variety of investments in order to reduce yiour exposure to risk. |
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| collection of investments, that is both diversified and well ballanced. |
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| is any retirement plan offered to a companys employees. |
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| is a type of defined-contribution pension plan to which the employee contributes on a pretax basis. |
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| is a personal savings plan that enables workers and their pouses to set aside money for retirement. |
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| is an IRA in which contributions are not tax-deductible; however, earnings accumulate tax-free. |
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| is a federally approved, defined-contribution, tax-deferred retirement plan designed specifically for self-employed people. |
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| ownership interest in the corporation. |
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| individual units of ownership, available for purchase. |
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| are actually part-owners of the comapny. |
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| the organized trading of stocks. |
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| a central location where stocks are sold on a trading floor. |
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| a payment to shareholders that represents a portion of the compnay's net profits. |
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| is an individual or firm that will buy and sell stock for clients according to their instrcutions. |
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| corporations and giverments can obtain funds by issuing certficates of debt. |
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| is a legal document that provides potential investors with information about a mutual fund or other security. |
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| is a contract purchased from an insurance company. |
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| land and any strcutures on it by owning their own homes. |
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| wheat, corn, iron ore, natural gas, and precious metals. |
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| the assets and liabilities left behind by a deceased person. |
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| is the process of making legal and financial arrangments for how one property should be administered before and after death. |
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| a legal document in which a person directs how his or her estate is to be distributed after death. |
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| is the individual who is in charge of handling the affairs of an estate. |
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| a person or group designated to receive soem or all of a deceased person's assets. |
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| is a legal arrangement that can serve as an alternative to a will. |
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| is a legal document assigning someone the right to act on a persons behalf. |
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| is a legal document taht outlines a persons wishes for medical treatment under specific circumstances. |
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