Name: Date:
Personal Finance Mr. Radzicki
Infolympics!
Directions – Working with a partner, answer the following questions on a
separate sheet of paper.
1-What is a stock?
2-List four different types of stocks, and their characteristics.
3-If you had $1000, which kind of stock would you invest in? Why?
4-What is diversification? What is the advantage of diversification in an
investment portfolio?
5-What is a CD?
6- What is the safest investment that you could make? How do you know its
safe?
7-What is the relationship of the risk you take in an investment to the return you
get from an investment?
8-What is a bond?
9-List 5 different types of bonds, and tell what makes them different.
10-What role do stock exchanges play in our economy? Identify two different
stock exchanges.
11-Describe two popular indexes of stock performances and explain the purpose
they play in the economy?
12- What are primary markets and secondary markets? What are their roles in
the economy?