Stocks
Bonds
Mutual Funds & ETFS
Real Estate
Crypto
100

This place is where people buy and sell stocks.

What is the stock market?

100

A bond is a loan made to these types of organizations.

What are companies or governments?

100

This organization or person decides what goes into an actively managed mutual fund.

What is a fund manager?

100

People sometimes “flip” houses — meaning they buy, renovate, and do this to make a profit.

What is sell them (or resell them)?

100

This is the most well-known cryptocurrency, created in 2009.

What is Bitcoin?

200

When you buy a company’s stock, you become this in the company.

What is a shareholder?

200

This is what a bondholder earns for lending money.

What is interest?

200

ETFs can be bought and sold during the day like this type of investment.

What is a stock?

200

This type of property is used for businesses like offices, shopping centers, or warehouses.

What is commercial real estate?

200

Crypto is stored in these digital wallets on this system.

What is blockchain?

300

These investors try to buy low and sell high quickly.

What are Traders? (Ex: Day Traders)

300

Bonds are less risky than stocks, but often have this downside.

What is lower return?

300

Unlike ETFs, mutual fund prices are only updated at this time of day.

What is the end of the trading day (or after market close)?

300

This cost is paid monthly by homeowners with loans.

What is a mortgage payment?

300

This word meaning liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse is often used when referring to crypto.

What is volatile?

400

This is the term for a group of top 30 U.S. company stocks.

What is the Dow Jones Industrial Average?

400

When a bond reaches this, the issuer repays the investor the original loan amount.

What is maturity?

400

This is the main similarity between mutual funds and ETFs — they both help investors do this with their money.

What is diversity?

400

This type of cost includes maintenance, taxes, insurance, and other ongoing property expenses, and must be subtracted to calculate net rental income.

What are operating expenses?

400

This term refers to digital assets like NFTs.

What are non-fungible tokens?

500

This term describes the return you get when a company shares profits with shareholders.

What is a Dividend?

500

This bond type is considered one of the safest in the U.S.

What is a Treasury bond?

500

Mutual funds may require this minimum amount of money to start investing, while ETFs usually do not.

What is an investment minimum?

500

People make money in real estate through rent and this.

What is appreciation?

500

Unlike the U.S. dollar, most cryptocurrencies are not backed by a government or central bank. This makes them what kind of asset?

What is a decentralized (or speculative) asset?