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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 retirement 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 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, avaliable for purchase. |
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| investors who purchases shares of stock. |
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| organized trading of stocks. |
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| a central location where stocks are sold on the selling 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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| Corporations and gonvernments can obtain funds by issusing certificates of debt. |
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| is a group of investments that is held in common by many individual investors |
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| is a legal document that provides potential investors with infomation anout mutual fund of other security. |
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| is a contract purchased from an insurance company. |
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| land and many structures on it by owning their own homes. |
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| the assets and liabilities left behind by a deceased person are estate |
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| is the process of making legal and financial arrangments for how one's property should be adminstrated 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 recieve some or all of a deceased person's assests. |
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| a person who dies without a valid will is said to die |
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| is a legal arrangement that can serve as an alternative 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 treatmentunder specific circumstances. |
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