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100
Early withdrawal tax penalty for certain retirement plans.
What is 10%?
100
Maximum sales charge allowed under FINRA’s rules on a single purchase of investment company securities.
What is 8.5%?
100
Annual Interest Rate ÷ Current Market Price.
What is Current Yield of a Bond?
100
Annual Dividend ÷ NAV per Share
What is the Current Yield of a Mutual Fund?
100
Frequency of NAV calculations for mutual funds and variable contracts.
What is Daily? (as of 4:00pm EST on business days only)What is
200
Maximum tax rate that is assessed on long-term capital gains and qualifying cash dividends.
What is 20%?
200
Maximum 12b-1 fee.
What is 1%?
200
Par Value (of a bond) ÷ Conversion Price.
What is the Conversion Ratio to convert bonds to stocks?
200
Total Net Assets ÷ Number of Shares Outstanding
What is the Net Asset Value (NAV)?
200
Minimum frequency of sending customer account statements.
What is Quarterly?What is
300
Maximum rate of growth that is permitted in a performance illustration.
What is 12%?
300
Maximum sales charge that may be levied over the life of a contractual plan.
What is 9%?
300
Tax-free Municipal Yield ÷ (100% - Investor Tax Bracket %)
What is Tax-Equivalent Yield?
300
Net Asset Value ÷ (100% - Sales Charge %)
What is the Public Offering Price (POP)?
300
Regulation T customer payment date for securities transactions (in either cash or margin accounts)
What is T+5?
400
Possible Tax penalty for the failure to take a required minimum distribution (RMD).
What is 50%?
400
Tax penalty on excess IRA contributions (those above the maximum).
What is 6%?
400
Taxable Yield × (100% - Investor Tax Bracket %)
What is Net Yield?
400
Dividends + Capital Gains Distributions +/- Change in NAV
What is the Total Return?
400
Maximum time allotted to complete an IRA rollover.
What is 60 days?
500
Minimum percentage of assets that must br invested in a prescribed manner for a fund to be considered diversified.
What is 75%?
500
Maximum 12b-1 fee that may be levied by a no-load fund (?% of the fund’s average annual net assets.
What is 0.25%?
500
Total Expenses ÷ Average Net Assets
What is a Mutual Fund’s Expense Ratio?
500
Total Offering Prices ÷ Months Invested -AND- Total Amount Invested ÷ Total Shares
What is Dollar Cost Averaging? Average price/share vs. Average cost/share
500
Required minimum holding period for a distribution from a Roth IRA to be considered qualified.
What is 5 years?
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