Disability income insurance:Can cover part of your lost income while you are disabled.Pays medical expenses associated with a disability.Should only be purchased by star athletes.Is primarily for the unemployed.
Technical analysis is a technique based on factors that are inherent to the market and include:Number of shares sold on a specific day.Number of consecutive days of price increases of a stock.Changes in the direction of movement of a market index.All of the above
Determining total return typically utilizes the:Inflation-adjusted annual performance of all mutual-funds.Annual capital gain plus dividend payout of a stock or fund.Math skills learned in college-level calculus courses.Dividend yield on the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The January Effect:Is the influence on the market of the mutual funds’ performance reported in December.Is another name for the Superbowl anomaly believed to affect stock prices.Is the result of several studies regarding inexplicably higher returns during January.Supports the predictabilityof cyclical prices determined by chaos theory.(Portfolio Construction, Management and Protection by Robert A. Strong, p. 182.)
For tax purposes, a capital gain is considered long term if the investment was held more than:1 day.1 month.1 year.10 years.
A benchmark asset, commonly considered by investors to be risk-free:Treasury Bill (T-Bill).Share of preferred stock.A EurobondA junk bond.
Variable life insurance:Offers tax deferral.May provide higher return potential and greater risk than a whole life policy.Allows you to invest a portion of the premium in various subaccounts.All of the above.
Mortgage payments:Can be completely deducted from income for tax purposes.Vary from month to month on a fixed rate loan.Represent high principal payments early in the term of the loan.Are typically tax deductible to the extent that they represent payment of interest.