| A | B |
| Bond | A form of lending to a company or the government (city, state, or federal) |
| Dividend | The share of profits distributed in cash |
| Financial advisor | A trained professional that helps people make investing decisions |
| Investment risk | The possibility that an investment will fail to pay the expected return or fail to pay a return at all |
| Mutual fund | Created when a company combines the funds of many different investors and then invests that money in a diversified portfolio of investments |
| Return | The profit or income generated by saving and investing |
| Risk | The chance of loss from an event that cannot be entirely controlled |
| Stock | A share of ownership in a company |