stocks and equity
stock
Essentially a loan you make to a corporation or government in exchange for regular interest payments
What is a bond
Spreading your investments across different assets to lower overall risk
What is diversification
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index that tracks 500 biggest stocks
what is s&p 500
The date when the issuer must repay the principal amount of a bond to the investor
What is the maturity date
A pooled investment vehicle that lets you buy a tiny piece of hundreds of stocks or bonds at once.
What is a mutual fund (or ETF)
Type of low-risk deposit account you buy from a bank for a fixed period of time
What is a Certificate of Deposit (CD)
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payment company makes to shareholders from their profits
what is a divedend
Credit rating agencies use this top tier rating (like AAA) to show a bond has the lowest default risk
What is investment grade
what does etf stand for
What is an Exchange-Traded Fund
A retirement account that allows your money to grow tax-free or tax-deferred.
What is an IRA or 401(k)
music genre in almost every investing club post
underground rap
When a company divides its existing shares into multiple shares to lower the price per share
What is a stock split
The inverse relationship means that when market interest rates go up, bond prices go _________.
What is down
A mutual fund that simply tracks a market index without an active human manager trying to beat the market
What is an index fund?
The degree of uncertainty or potential for loss on an investment
What is risk
ammount of likes on the hit viral "meet the investing club officers" video
76
The type of market condition characterized by falling stock prices and widespread pessimism
What is a bear market
Bonds issued by the U.S. Department of the Treasury that are considered virtually risk-free
What are Treasury bonds (or T-bills/T-notes)
The percentage fee an investment fund charges yearly to manage your money
What is the expense ratio
The rule of thumb that estimates how long it will take for an investment to double by dividing 72 by the annual rate of return
What is the Rule of 72
amount rounded to the nearest hundred of food that was donated to us last year
1500