Across
- 1. calculated by dividing the profit earned on an investment by the cost of that investment.
- 4. collection of products, services, and other company divisions.
- 6. prediction of your credit behavior, such as how likely you are to pay a loan back on time, based on information from your credit reports
- 8. the practice of increasing total wealth over time by acquiring, maintaining, and trading investments that have the potential to grow in value
- 11. a spending plan based on income and expenses
- 12. a way of describing the perceived or true value of an asset
- 14. type of unearned income that is acquired with minimal labor to earn or maintain.
- 15. a lower-risk investment strategy that focuses on generating consistent payments from investments such as bonds, money-market funds and certificates of deposit, or CDs.
Down
- 2. amount of your income that can be taxed.
- 3. debt security
- 5. when a market or security experiences periods of unpredictable, and sometimes sharp, price movements
- 7. let you pool your money with other investors to "mutually" buy stocks, bonds, and other investments.
- 9. how investors divide their portfolios among different assets that might include equities, fixed-income assets, and cash and its equivalents.
- 10. amount of capital invested or owned by the owner of a company
- 13. the value of the assets a person or corporation owns, minus the liabilities they owe.