HUNTER: Investing

An employer contribution made to their employees' 401(k) plan based on individual employee's contributions

• 401(K) Match

• ROTH IRA

• Money Market

A market in which prices are falling, encouraging selling.

• Bear Market

• Bull Market

• Depression

• Recession

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

• Bond

• Stock

• Mutal Fund

• CD

A measurement of the likelihood that a bondholder will be paid back

• Bond Rating

• Bond Mark

• Bond, James Bond

• Bond Villian

A market in which there is increased stock trading and rising stock prices

• Bear Market

• Bull Market

• Stock Market

Profit from the sale of an asset, such as a stock or a bond, calculated by subtracting the price you initially paid from the price you then sold it for

• Capital Gain

• Dividend

Reinvesting earned interest back into the principal to allow money to grow exponentially over time

• Simple Interest

• Compound Interest

• Asset Interest

The annual interest payment on a bond, usually expressed as a percentage of its face value

• Capital

• Coupon

• Dividend

Money from the profits of a company that is paid out to its shareholders, typically on a quarterly basis

• Dividend

• Capital Gain

• Coupon

A low-fee portfolio of stocks chosen to track or mimic a stock market index, thereby removing the human element of investing because no one is choosing the individual stocks

• Index Fund

• Mutual Fund

• Brokerage