INVESTOR
An individual who commits capital to investment vehicles and expects financial returns. Generally speaking, investors’ primary concern is to minimize risk while maximizing returns. They utilize their investments to increase the money and/or generate income during retirement such as annuity. There are various investment vehicles such as bonds, stocks, commodities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), mutual funds, futures, options, foreign exchange, real estate, and retirement plans, among others. Investors also employ technical and/or fundamental analysis to identify favorable investment opportunities.
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Liquidity Adjustment Facility
A tool in monetary policy where banks are allowed to borrow money through repurchase agreements, and to respond to liquidity pressures. The governm ...
Data Warehousing
Electronic storage of information in a business or corporation. It should be secure, reliable and easy to retrieve and manage. It originated in 198 ...
One-Tailed Test
A statistical test where the critical area of a circulation is one-sided so that it is either less than or greater than a specific value, but not b ...
Less-than-Truckload
A shipping service that carries small loads of freight, weight between partial and full truckload. The service is being offered by many large and n ...
Original Cost
It simply refers to the total cost associated in buying an asset.
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Ethical Investing: Socially Responsible Investing
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Ethical Investing: Its Advantages and Disadvantages
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