This person invests private capital in small or new businesses.
What is an angel investor?
100
This company is an investment manager that makes investments in the private equity of operating companies.
What is a private equity firm?
100
This is a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits.
What is a dividend?
100
This is wealth in the form of money or other assets owned by a person or organization or available for a particular purpose such as starting a company or investing.
What is capital?
100
To refuse to loan money to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk.
What is redlining?
200
This person accepts lower financial returns in order to generate greater good for society.
What is a social investor.
200
This is a company that administers the public stock offerings and distribution of securities from a corporation.
What is an underwriter?
200
This is a stock that entitles the holder to a fixed dividend, whose payment takes priority over that of common-stock dividends.
What is preferred stock?
200
This is a method by which a business can offer stock to the public without a middleman.
What is a DPO or direct public offering?
200
This is a profit from an investment.
What is "return"?
300
This person arranges business deals between other people.
What is a middleman?
300
This is a large organization, such as a bank, pension fund, labor union, or insurance company, that makes substantial investments on the stock exchange.
What is an institutional investor?
300
These are shares entitling their holder to dividends that vary in amount and may even be missed, depending on the fortunes of the company.
What is common stock?
300
This is the first sale of stock by a private company, made with the help of an underwriter or other middleman.
What is an IPO or initial public offering?
300
The proportion of a loan that is charged as interest to the borrower, typically expressed as an annual percentage of the loan.
What is interest rate?
400
This is a person who owns part of a company's capital, and may receive profits.
What is a shareholder?
400
This is a business entity that is granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service.
What is a non-profit organization?
400
This is a single payment made at a particular time, as opposed to a number of smaller payments or installments.
What is a lump sum?
400
The practice of funding a project or venture by raising many small amounts of money from a large number of people, typically via the Internet.
What is crowdfunding?
400
This is a sum of money lent or invested on which interest is paid.
What is "principal"?
500
This is a corporate officer primarily responsible for managing the fiscal risks of the corporation.
What is a CFO or Chief Financial Officer?
500
This is a business or organization that is owned and operated by the people who work there or the people who use its services
What is a co-op, or cooperative?
500
The networks of relationships among people and companies that live, work and do business in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively.
What is social capital?
500
This is money provided, especially by an organization or government, for a particular purpose.
What is funding?
500
An interest rate on a loan that remains the same for the entire term of the loan or for part of this term.