There are certain things you must understand about bonds before you start investing in them. Not understanding these things may cause you to purchase the wrong bonds, at the wrong maturity date.The th...
The Nature of Stocks and Their MarketsStock BrokersBesides money, the only thing you need to start investing is a stock broker. Your broker will be the individual or organization that have execute you...
Another month is almost in the books so lets recap the recent spinoff activity and also take a look at what spinoffs the next month will bring:Spinoffs Completed Prior MonthSome big spinoffs in April....
A beneficiary is any person who gains an advantage and/or profits from something. In the financial world, a beneficiary typically refers to someone eligible to receive distributions from a t...
A beneficial owner is a person who enjoys the benefits of ownership even though the title to some form of property is in another name. It also means any individual or group of individuals who, e...
A bell curve is the most common type of distribution for a variable and is thus considered to be a normal distribution. The term "bell curve" originates from the fact that the graph used to depict a&n...
BAT is an acronym referring to Baidu Inc. (BIDU), Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (0700.Hong Kong, TCEHY), three large Chinese internet stocks often likened to Alphabe...
A basket trade is an order to buy or sell a group of securities simultaneously. Basket trading is essential for institutional investors and investment funds who wish to hold a large number o...
A backdoor Roth IRA is not an official type of retirement account. Instead, it is an informal name for a complicated, IRS-sanctioned method for high-income taxpayers to fund a Roth, even if their...
The back-end ratio, also known as the debt-to-income ratio, is a ratio that indicates what portion of a person's monthly income goes toward paying debts. Total monthly debt includes expenses, suc...