Glossary Terms for Investments

Assets

• Resources such as merchandise, land, buildings and equipment, that will provide future economic benefits
• Partial ownership in a company
• The Allocation of investments across different industries with the goal of diversifying your portfolio.
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Asset Allocation

• The way money is split between various investments
• How fast you can buy or sell the asset
• The amount of investments you have
• The limit of investments you can partake in.

Asset Management

• When a financial expert is paid to invest the money of other people
• A regular payment made from companys to shareholders.
• Resources such as merchandise, land, buildings and equipment, that will provide future economic benefits
• A type of fish that dwells at the bottom of the sea

Bond

• A promise to pay interest in the future in exchange for money right now.
• A shareholding in a company
• Grouping of the top 500 stocks
• A precious metal that is a popular alternative to common investment oppurtunities

Commercial Real Estate

• Property that is owned for the purpose of making money (office, Rretail, Industrial, Residential)
• Real estate that the property owner lives in
• Real estate owned by companies public on the stock exchange
• Space rented out to clients with the intent to live in

Compound Interest

• Interest investors realize when iterest is both earned on the original prinipal and the prior interest earned.
• The first 5 payments of interest
• Interest that investors pay loaners
• a investment oppurtunity that a company really has an interest in

Dividend

• Payments made by corperations to their shareholders
• A partial shareholding of a stock
• Resources such as merchandise, land, buildings and equipment, that will provide future economic benefits
• The rate at whih the overall price level is rising

Headline Inflation

• The rate at which the overall price level is rising
• The change in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over timee.
• Inflation exclusive to the compan

Inflation

• The change in the general level of prices of goods and services in an economy over timee.
• The price of gas going up 0.35$
• The rate at which a company is expanding its busines
• the price a borrower pays for the use of money they do not own

Interest Rate

• the price a borrower pays for the use of money they do not own
• Interest investors realize when iterest is both earned on the original prinipal and the prior interest earned.
• Regular payments made to a loaner
• The amount of money a company is seeking