60% of people are intimidated by investing.

If this is you, understanding these 50 terms will change that:

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1. Stock/Share – a piece of ownership in a company

2. Stock market – where people go to exchange stocks

3. Bond – a loan to the government or a company

4. Real Estate – private property like land or buildings

5. REIT – a company you can invest in that owns real estate

6. Asset class – a group of investments with similar traits

7. Index – a list of stocks

8. Index fund – a fund that tracks a list of stocks and trades once/day in the stock market

9. ETF – a fund that tracks a list of stocks but trades all day in the stock market

10. S&P 500 – an index (list) of the top 500 companies in the US

11. Market cap – the total value of a company

12. Large-cap – a company worth more than $10B

13. Mid Cap – a company worth $3B - $10B

14. Small Cap – a company worth $250M - $3B

15. Active management – when a fund is managed by pro investors

16. Hedge fund – a partnership between private investors that invests using risky strategies

17. Turnover – the rate at which a stock is bought and sold

20. Expense ratio – the % cost of investing in a fund