Retirement Planning Miscellaneous Investing Basics Stocks and Bonds Mutual Funds Personal Finance Final Exam Review Game
The Answer is: A good reason for investing money.
The Question is: What are: achieving financial goals, increasing income, feeling financially secure, having money for retirement.
The Answer is: A portion of its earnings that a company pays out to its common stock shareholders.
The Question is: What is a dividend?
The Answer is: The name given for a period of time where security prices have risen 20% or more.
The Question is: What is a “bull market”?
The Answer is: Type of investment category where borrowers (e.g., bank, government entity, or a corporation) agree to pay periodic interest and typically return principal to an investor at a future date.
The Question is: What is a “loanership” investment such as bonds and CDs?
The Answer is: The risk that the value of an investment may drop due to events that affect all similar investments.
The Question is: What is market risk?
The Answer is: Shares of ownership in the assets and earnings of a business corporation.
The Question is: What is stock?
The Answer is: Interest-bearing certificate of long-term debt issued by a corporation, state or municipality, or the U.S. government.
The Question is: What is a bond?
The Answer is: Two ways to make money from common stock investments.
The Question is: What are receiving dividends (as cash or reinvested in additional shares) and increase in share prices?
The Answer is: Type of stock that may sell for less than the true worth of its assets.
The Question is: What is a value stock?
The Answer is: Current market price of a stock divided by its earnings per share over the past four quarters.
The Question is: What is the price-earnings ratio?
The Answer is: A legally required document that describes a mutual fund’s objectives, expenses, and performance that must be given to new fund investors.
The Question is: What is a prospectus?
The Answer is: The per share value of a mutual fund calculated by dividing the number of outstanding shares into the value of the fund portfolio.
The Question is: What is net asset value or NAV?
The Answer is: Type of mutual fund that provides tax- exempt income by investing solely in bonds issued by state and local government and government agencies.
The Question is: What is a municipal bond fund?
The Answer is: Type of mutual fund that invests in stocks from one industry sector (e.g., technology or health care).
The Question is: What is a sector fund?
The Answer is: A source of information about mutual funds.
The Question is: What are: The Wall Street Journal, financial magazines, Morningstar, and the Investment Company Institute?
The Answer is: The full retirement age for Social Security benefits for workers born in 1960 or later.
The Question is: What is age 67?
The Answer is: A personal retirement savings account for workers with earned income?
The Question is: What is an individual retirement account (IRA)?
The Answer is: An advantage of a tax-sheltered (tax-deferred) retirement savings account.
The Question is: What are: contributions may be tax deductible, earnings are tax- deferred, and possible employer matching.
The Answer is: The act of transferring retirement savings from one tax-sheltered account to another.
The Question is: What is a rollover?
The Answer is: The name given to the tax-deferred retirement savings plan offered to employees of schools, non-profit organizations, and universities.
The Question is: What is a 403(b) plan?
The Answer is: The practice of investing regular dollar amounts at regular time intervals.
The Question is: What is dollar-cost averaging?
The Answer is: Example of a tax break that increases investment returns.
The Question is: What are: long-term capital gains, tax-deferred investments, and tax- free investments.
The Answer is: Type of insurance that protects you from financial losses suffered when you are held responsible for injury to others.
The Question is: What is liability insurance?
The Answer is: The least expensive type of life insurance that provides coverage only for a specific period of time.
The Question is: What is term life insurance?
The Answer is: An example of a relationship between good health and increased wealth.
The Question is: What are decreased medical expenses, increased work productivity and/or income, and living long enough to collect Social Security, etc.?