Investments
An investment that represents a share of ownership in a corporation.
What is a Stock?
The two main classifications of trusts.
What are Revocable and Irrevocable Trusts?
An account at a brokerage, bank, company, or anywhere that a single person is responsible for debits and credits thereto.
What is an Individual Account?
An electronic money transfer across a network of banks or transfer agencies across the world.
What is a Wire Transfer?
When a market experiences prolonged price declines. It typically describes a condition in which the price of a major stock market index fall 20% or more from recent highs amid widespread pessimism and negative investor sentiment.
What is a Bear Market?
A debt security issued by a company, municipality, government, or government agency.
What is a Bond?
The individual responsible for administering the trust, managing the assets, and distributing income and/or principal to the terms of the trust.
Who is the Trustee?
A legal ownership structure involving two or more parties for any type of financial account or another asset. Each tenant has an equal right to the account's assets and is afforded survivorship rights if one of the account holder(s) dies.
What is Joint With Rights of Survivorship / JWROS?
Used when a person writes an order instructing a bank to pay a specific sum of money from the drawers account to a designated payee.
What is a Check (Writing a Check)?
The condition of a financial market in which prices are rising or are expected to rise. Typically characterized by an increase of 20% or more in the price of a major stock market index.
What is a Bull Market?
An investment vehicle that offers investors professional money management and diversification by pooling a portfolio of securities together.
What is a Mutual Fund?
The primary person who will benefit from the trust, usually family and loved ones, but can be a charity.
Who is the Primary Beneficiary?
An account that allows individuals to direct pre-tax income toward investments that can grow tax-deferred. The IRS assesses no capital gains or dividend income taxes until the beneficiary makes a withdrawal.
What is a Traditional IRA?
Same registration transfers within the same custodial platform (example- you can transfer $50,000 from a Fidelity cash account to a Fidelity brokerage account this way).
What is a Journal Transfer?
When a major stock market index declines more than 10%, but less than 20%.
What is a correction?
An investment company whose shares are traded intraday on a stock exchange at market-determined prices.
What is an ETF / Exchange-Traded Fund?
The beneficiaries whose interest vests after the primary beneficiary dies or their interest terminates for another reason.
Who is the Contingent Beneficiary?
An account to which you contribute after-tax dollars. While there are no current-year tax benefits, your contributions and earnings can grow tax-free, and you can withdraw them tax- and penalty-free after age 59½ and once the account has been open for five years.
What is a Roth IRA?
Used when a client is moving assets (securities & cash) from one Custodian to another
What is a Transfer of Assets (DTC Transfer)?
A period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in GDP in two successive quarters.
What is a Recession?
An investment in a business that is not listed on a stock exchange. The source of capital is from either a pool of individual investors or investment funds, which either make investments in private companies or buys them out.
What is Private Equity (PE)?
The person who is appointed to carry out a deceased person's wishes specified in their will. They manage and protect the estate's financial assets including distributing assets and paying off outstanding debt/expenses.
Who is an executor?
A business structure that can combine the pass-through taxation of a partnership or sole proprietorship with the limited liability of a corporation.
What is an LLC?
The act of collecting funds from a limited partner whenever the need arises.
What is a Capital Call?
An investment term that describes when a market or security experiences periods of unpredictable, and sometimes sharp, price movements.
What is Market Volatility?