Across
- 1. A person, company, or institution that owns that least one share in a company
- 5. The process of setting money aside to increase wealth over time for long-term financial goals such as retirement
- 8. The world's largest stock exchange, physically located in New York City
- 9. The second largest stock exchange in the world behind the NYSE
- 10. Degree of uncertainty on how likely the investor is to make money on an investment
- 11. A financial asset, such as a stock or a bond, that can be bought and sold in a financial market
- 15. 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
- 17. A collection of financial investments like stocks, bonds, commodities, cash, and cash equivalents, including mutual funds and ETFs
Down
- 2. The practice of investing in a large variety of stocks, bonds, and/or funds as a way to reduce your overall risk
- 3. A collection of many investments, such as stocks or bonds, pooled together and bought and sold as a single unit.
- 4. Money from the profits of a company that is paid out to its shareholders, typically on a quarterly basis
- 6. An asset or item that is acquired with the goal of making a profit
- 7. A single unit of ownership in a company. It can refer to units of stock, mutual funds, and real estate investment trusts
- 12. The rate at which the price of goods increases and consumer purchasing power decreases over time
- 13. A retirement account, offered in some job sectors or companies, that an employer maintains to give an employee a fixed payout at retirement
- 14. The annual interest payment on a bond, usually expressed as a percentage of its face value
- 16. 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
