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Large Cap, Mid Cap, Small Cap
12b-1 Fees
401(k) Plan
403(B) Plan
529 College Savings Plan
8-K
Account Fee
Accrued Interest
Advance Fee Fraud
Affinity Fraud
After-hours Trading
Annual Meeting
Annual Report (10K)
Annual Return
Annuity
Ask Price
Asset
Asset Allocation
Asset Classes
Back-end Load
Basis Point
Bear Market
Beneficial Owner
Bid Price
Board of Directors
Bond
Bond Swap
Bonus Credits
Broker
Broker Vote
Bull Market
Buying Long
Callable Bonds (or Redeemable Bonds)
Callable CDs
Capital Gain
Cash
CD Call Period
Classes
Closed-end Fund
College Savings Plan
Commission
Committee on Union Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP)
Compound Interest
Contingent Deferred Sales Load
Conversion
Convertible Bond
Corporate Governance
Corporate Reports
Coupon
Coupon Payment
Coupon Rate
Creation Unit
Credit Rating Agencies
Current Yield
Day Trading
Debentures
Default
Deferred Annuity
Deferred Sales Charge
Defined Benefit Plan
Defined Contribution Plan
Derivatives
Discount
Discount Note
Distribution Fees
Diversification
Dividend
Early Withdrawal
Earnings Per Share
Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Enrollment Fee
Exchange Fee
Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)
Expense Ratio
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Financial Planner 
Financial Product
Fixed Annuity
Fixed-rate Bond
Floating-rate Bond (or Variable or Adjustable rate Bond)
Floor
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act
Foreign exchange
Foreign Exchange Markets
Form 10-K
Form 8-K
Fraudster
Free look Period
Front-end Load
Future Value
Futures contract
Futures Market
General Obligation Bond
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
Good-Til-Cancelled Order
High-yield Bond (or Junk Bond) 
Immediate Annuity
Index Fund
Initial Public Offering (IPO)
Interest
Invest
Investment Adviser
Investment Company
Investment-grade Bond (or High-grade Bond)
Issuer
Liability/Debt
Lifecycle Funds
Limit Orders
Liquidity (or Marketability)
Load
London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)
Lost and Stolen Securities Program
Lump Sum Payment
Maintenance Fee
Management Fee
Margin Account
Margin Call
Market Capitalization
Market Index
Market Indices
Market Maker
Market Order
Merger
Microcap stock
Money Markets
Mortgage-backed Securities (MBS)
Mutual Fund
Net Asset Value (NAV)
No-load Fund
Offering Document (or Official Statement or Prospectus)
Open-end Company
Operating Expenses
Options
Pension
Ponzi Schemes
Portfolio
Premium
Prepaid Tuition Plans
Prepayment
Prepayment Risk
Price-earnings (P/E) Ratio
Primary Market
Prime Bank Fraud
Principal
Product Description
Profit
Promissory Notes
Prospectus
Proxy Statement
Proxy Voting
Public Company
Pump and Dump
Purchase Fee
Purchasing Power
Pyramid Schemes
Quarterly Reports (10Q)
Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)
Real Return
Rebalancing
Redemption Fee
Registered Owner
Revenue Bond
Risk
Risk Tolerance
Roth 401(k) Plan
Sales Charge (or Load)
Savings
Say-on-pay Vote
Secondary Market
Section 1035
Security
Senior Bond
Shareholder
Shareholder Service Fees
Short Sale
Standard & Poor's Depositary Receipts (SPDR) Trust
Statement of Additional Information (SAI)
Stock
Stock Market
Stock Quotes
Stock Split
Stop Order
Surrender Charge
Target Date Fund
Ticker
Time Horizon
Total Annual Fund Operating Expense
Trustee
Unit Investment Trust (UIT)
Variable Annuity
Variable-rate CDs
Yield
Yield Curve
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