Personal Finance Final Exam Review Game
Investing
Basics
Stocks and
Bonds
Mutual
Funds
Retirement
Planning
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Miscellaneous
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.
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A portion of its earnings that a
company pays out to its common
stock shareholders.
The Question is:
What is a dividend?
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The name given for a period of time
where security prices have risen 20%
or more.
The Question is:
What is a “bull market”?
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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?
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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?
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Shares of ownership in the
assets and earnings of a
business corporation.
The Question is:
What is stock?
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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?
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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?
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Type of stock that may sell for less
than the true worth of its assets.
The Question is:
What is a value stock?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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Type of mutual fund that provides taxexempt income by investing solely in
bonds issued by state and local
government and government agencies.
The Question is:
What is a municipal
bond fund?
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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?
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A source of information about
mutual funds.
The Question is:
What are: The Wall Street Journal,
financial magazines, Morningstar,
and the Investment Company
Institute?
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The full retirement age for
Social Security benefits for
workers born in 1960 or later.
The Question is:
What is age 67?
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A personal retirement savings
account for workers with
earned income?
The Question is:
What is an individual retirement
account (IRA)?
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An advantage of a tax-sheltered
(tax-deferred) retirement
savings account.
The Question is:
What are: contributions may be
tax deductible, earnings are taxdeferred, and possible employer
matching.
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The act of transferring retirement
savings from one tax-sheltered
account to another.
The Question is:
What is a rollover?
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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?
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The practice of investing regular dollar
amounts at regular time intervals.
The Question is:
What is dollar-cost
averaging?
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Example of a tax break that
increases investment returns.
The Question is:
What are: long-term capital gains,
tax-deferred investments, and taxfree investments.
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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?
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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?
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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.?