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| The income that an investment produces. |
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| The degree to which an investment's return or value may change. |
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| The possibility of variation in the return on your investment. |
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| 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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| Any retirement plan 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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| A personal saving 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, tex-deferred
retirement plan designed specifically for self-employed people. |
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| Ownership intetrest in the corporation. |
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| Individual units of ownership. |
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| Investors who purchase shares of stock. |
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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 company's net profits. |
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| An individual or firm that will but 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 a mutual fund or other security. |
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| A contract purchased from an isurance company. |
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| Land and any structures on it. |
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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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| The process of making legal and financial arrangements 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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| The individual who is in charge of handleing the affairs of an estate. |
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| A person or group 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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| A legal arrangement that can serve as an alternative to a will. |
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| A legal document assigning someone the right to act on a person's behalf. |
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| A legal document that outlines a person's wishes for medical treatment under specific circumstances. |
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