Corporations
Not a person, but a legal person.
What's a Corporation?
They own the company, but don't really OWN it!
What are Shareholders?
Money given to another party in exchange for future repayment plus interest and other charges.
What's a Loan?
A pool of money allocated for investment in a portfolio of various investments.
What's a Fund?
Its stock is traded on the stock exchange.
What's a Publicly-Traded Company?
Sold by corporations to raise funds.
What are shares?
The amount of a loan or bond, the sum put into an investment, or a private company's owner, or the headmaster.
What's a Principal?
An investment fund typically funded by donations to a specific cause or foundation.
What's an Endowment?
A parent company owns over 50% of its stock.
What's a Subsidiary Company?
A regulated public institution for buying, selling, and issuance of shares of publicly-held companies.
What's a Stock Exchange?
An investment in which an investor loans money to a company (or a governmental entity) for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate.
What's a Bond?
A person that acts on behalf of another to manage their assets in their best interests.
What's a Fiduciary?
Appoint and oversee the management of a corporation.
What's the Board of Directors?
The distribution of a portion of the company's earnings to its shareholders.
What's a Dividend?
This is when the principal is due to be paid back.
What's a Maturity Date?
A professionally-managed investment fund, collected from many investors for the purpose of investing in securities.
What's a Mutual Fund?
A public relations stunt, mostly.
What's Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)?
The process of offering shares of a private corporation to the public in a new stock issuance.
What's an IPO?
A form of credit issued by a financial institution that provides the borrower with the flexibility to withdraw funds, repay, and withdraw again.
What's a Revolving Loan or Line of Credit?
An investment strategy which explicitly seeks to consider both financial return and the social good.
What's SRI?