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What is a 12b1 fee? A 12b1 fee is paid on mutual funds. The fee is paid by investors and is used to market the mutual fund to other potential inves...

What are moving averages? Moving averages are calculated using past stock prices in an attempt to determine future trends. It’s calculated by ave...

What is the difference between load and no load? Load and no load are terms used for different mutual funds. Load mutual funds charge a fee or comm...

What is an Alternative Investment? Alternative investments are just different types of investments that are a little more complicated in nature. Th...

What is Electronic Communication Network (ECN)? In order to facilitate the exponential increase of trading volume in the markets, any financial ins...

What does a financial analyst do? Financial analysts research the market and recommend investments. There are quite a few licenses required to be a...

What is Good Delivery? Good delivery just means that nothing gets in the way of a security transfer after a transaction is made. It’s kind of a d...

What is a Busted Convertible? A busted convertible is a convertible bond that will never be converted to stock because the underlying stock price i...

What are the different types of mutual funds? There are many different types of mutual funds, including bond funds, equity funds, money market fund...

What is the difference between mutual funds and index funds? Mutual funds are professionally managed. Those investors trade shares and realize taxa...

What are ETFs? They are Exchange Traded Funds, and unlike index funds, they don't really change, or rebalance, based on the industries represented...

What are mutual funds? Mutual funds are an aggregation of stocks, professionally managed for a "small" fee. Investors wanting exposure to a given a...

What is a Chartist? A chartist is a trader and/or analyst who relies on technical analysis and charts in order to make decisions for trading the ma...

What is Diversified Mutual Fund? Diversified mutual fund allow individual investors to obtain the benefits of risk mitigation through diversificati...

What are systematic and unsystematic risk? Take a risk on this video and hit play.

Modern Portfolio Theory claims there's a smart way to invest. If it's not "put all your money under your mattress," we might be doing it wrong...

What does it mean to rebalance an account, and will we need a yoga mat? Hit play to find out.

What is a portfolio? Hit play to find out.

What are NASDAQ and the NYSE? NYSE stands for New York Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ is more or less a component of this. The stock exchange is where...

What's the SEC? Easy. Seals Eating Candy. Or maybe Silly Elephants Canoodling? We can never remember. Guess it's time to watch this video and refre...