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Rights offerings are essentially hostile takeover defenses. Unfortunately, they're not as cool as swords and shields.
What is speculation? Speculation refers to a high risk, high reward scenario in investing. When an investor engages in a speculation, they take on...
What is Disinflation? Disinflation is a term used for an interim slowdown of inflation rate. For example, a reduction of inflation growth from 3.5%...
What is Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO)? A CMO is a mortgage bond that consists of a large number of different individual mortgages bundle...
What is Counterparty Risk? Counterparty risk is the risk to either party within a transaction that the other will not or be unable to abide by the...
What is Arbitrage? Arbitrage is a trading strategy used to make risk-free money. The investor buys a security in one market and sells it in another...
What is interest? In order to create an incentive for a lender, a borrower usually repays debt with interest, a percentage of overpayment for the l...
What is a Business Cycle? A business cycle refers to the ups and downs in GDP or output over a period of time. Business cycles show times when the...
A REIT is a mini-mutual fund for real estate investments. Aw. Sounds cute.
What is ordinary income versus long-term gain income? Hit play to find out.
NAV isn't a cool new navigation app...it's how mutual fund shares are valued or priced at the end of each trading day.
What is a Holding Company? A holding company is a company that controls enough voting stake in another company to have control over operations. Usu...
What are the types of income tax? Federal income tax. State income tax. Real estate tax. Value Added Tax (VAT). Some tax is progressive, some tax i...
What is Capital Gains Tax? Capital gain taxes are taxes collected by the IRS on trading profits from investments in equities, real estate, or any o...
What is tax loss carry-forward? We promise it's a real thing, not just a bunch of words strung together.
What is term life insurance, and variable life insurance? Hit play to find out, and, uh...let's hope you live long enough to figure out the answers.
What are operating profits, net profits and gross profits? Profits for a company can be calculated several different ways depending on what metric...
What are systematic and unsystematic risk? Take a risk on this video and hit play.
A wrap account is an account that wraps into one annual fee all of the services you'd normally pay for a la carte at a given brokerage.