An investment vehicle is basically any structure or place where you put your money to try to make more money. Some examples of investment vehicles are stocks, bonds, and mutual funds.
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An Investment Vehicle is…
Friday, June 3rd, 2011Screening is…
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Screening is the way you evaluate potential investments based on certain criteria. While the criteria is different for different objectives (for example, respect for human rights when looking for socially responsible companies or low price-earning ratios for value stocks), the process of making the list smaller based on specific criteria is the same.
Screening is an integral part of socially-responsible investing (SRI). It refers to the way you evaluate potential investments based on certain social, environmental, and good corporate governance criteria. When you screen companies for social responsibility, you’re checking to make sure that they have respectable employee relations, strong records of community involvement, excellent environmental impact policies and practices, respect for human rights around the world, and safe and useful products.
A Money Market Fund is…
Sunday, October 18th, 2009A money market fund is a type of mutual fund that invests only in short term, low-risk securities like CD’s or government securities. These funds are often not insured by the FDIC, though some of the securities that they invest in are insured.
A Mutual Fund is…
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009A mutual fund is a pool of securities (stocks, bonds, money market instruments, etc.) managed by an investment company or other professional and paid for by investors. Each share of a mutual fund contains a small piece of every different type of security in the fund (so when you buy a share of a mutual fund, you’re really buying a little piece of a stock from Company A, a little piece of a stock from Company B, a little piece of a government bond, and so on).
An Index Fund is…
Thursday, June 11th, 2009An index fund is a mutual fund, or compilation of instruments (such as stocks, bonds, housing, art, commodities), that mimic the composition of an index. For example, if the index fund replicates the S&P 500 index, all 500 stocks (in the appropriate percentages) would be in that fund. Because it’s a mutual fund, the monetary value of an index fund is determined at the end of each trading day (as opposed to the price of a stock, which fluctuates throughout the day).
A Fund is…
Thursday, June 11th, 2009A fund is an organization or legal structure set up to manage and control a certain amount of money. Each fund has a specific investment objective. For example, an equity mutual fund invests in stocks, a private equity fund invests in non-public companies, and a bond fund invests in fixed income instruments.