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| The income that an investment produces |
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| The degree to which an investments return or value may change |
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| The possibility of variation in the return on an investment |
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| A strategy of making a variety of investments in order to reduce exposure to risk |
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| Collection of investments |
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| A group of people who meet regularly to learn about investing and to make investments together |
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| Any retirement offered to a company's employees |
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| A type of defined-contribution pension plan to which the employee contributes on a pretax basis |
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| Individual retirement accoount; a personal savings plan that enables workers and their spouses to set aside money for retirement |
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| An IRA in which contributions are not tax-deductible; however, earnings accumulate tax-free |
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| A federally approved, defined-contribution, tax-deferred retirement plan designed specifically for self-employed people |
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| Ownership interest in a corporation |
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| Individual units of ownership in a corporation |
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| People who have purchased shares of stock in a corporation and are therefore part-owners of the company |
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| The organized trading of stocks |
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| A central location where stocks are sold |
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| A payment to shareholders that represents a portion of the companys net profit |
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| An individual or firm that will buy and sell stock for clients according to their instructions |
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| A group of investments that is held in common by many individual investors |
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| A legal document that provides potential investors with information about mutual fund or other security |
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| A contract purchased from an insurance company that gaurantees to provide payments at regular intervals in the future, usually after age 59 1/2 |
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| Land and any structures on it |
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| Basic economic goods bought and sold in quantity, such as wheat, corn, iron ore, natural gas, and precious metals |
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| The assests and liabilities of a deceased person |
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| Making legal and financial arrangements for how ones 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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| The individual who is in charge of handling the affairs of an estate |
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| A perosn or group designated to receive some or all of a deceased persons assets |
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| A egal arrangement that can serve as an alternative to a wll. It transfers control of a living persons assets to a trustee, someone who holds and mangaes assets for someone else |
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| A legal document assigning someone the right to act on a persons behalf |
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| A legal document that outlines a persons wishes for medical treatment under specific circumstances |
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