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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 your exposure to risk. |
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| collection of investments, that is both diversified and well balanced. |
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| a group of people who meet regularly to learn about investing and to make investments together. |
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| is any retirment plan offered to a company's 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 spouses to set aside money for retirment. |
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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 |
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| investors who purchase shares stocks. |
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| th 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 company's net profits. |
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| is an individual or firm that will buy and sell stock for clients according to their instructions. |
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| is what corporations and governments can obtain funds by issuing certificates of debt. |
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| is a group of investments that is held in common by many individual invetors |
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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 structures on it- by owning their own homes. |
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| basic economic goods bought and sold in quantity. |
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| the assets and liabilities left behind by a deceased person. |
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| is the process of maikng legal and financial arrangments for how one's 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 indivudual who is in charge of handling the affairs of an estate. |
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| a person or gropup designated to recieve some or all of a deceased person's assets. |
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| a person who dies without a valid will. |
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| is a legal arrangment 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 person's behalf. |
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| is a legal document that outlines a person's wishes for medical treatment under specific circumstances. |
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