Unit 3 Investing

4. Money from the profits of a company that is paid out to its shareholders, typically on a quarterly basis.
5. A retirement account, offered in some job sectors or companies, that an employer maintains to give an employee a fixed payout at retirement.
7. The annual interest payment on a bond, usually expressed as a percentage of its face value.
10. The practice of investing in a large variety of stocks, bonds, and/or funds as a way to reduce your overall risk.
11. A person, company, or institution that owns that least one share in a company.
13. The second largest stock exchange in the world behind the NYSE.

1. The rate at which the price of goods increases and consumer purchasing power decreases over time.
2. The process of setting money aside to increase wealth over time for long-term financial goals such as retirement.
3. An asset or item that is acquired with the goal of making a profit.
6. A financial asset, such as a stock or a bond, that can be bought and sold in a financial market.
8. A collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash, and cash equivalents, including mutual funds and ETFs.
9. A security in which the investor loans money to a company or government, which then pays regular interest to the bondholder and returns the principal on the bond's maturity date.
11. A share of the value of a company, which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment and which gives the investor small partial ownership of the company.
12. Degree of uncertainty on how likely the investor is to make money on an investment.