Financial Literacy

Bearer shares are stock certificates that belong to whoever holds them. There’s no documentation outside of the physical certificate.

A bear put spread is a strategy in which investors stack puts to hedge against an unexpected upturn in the stock’s price.

Behavioral finance examines several psychological concepts and applies them to how today’s investors behave in public markets.

A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest point on the curve.

BAT stocks mark the rise of Chinese tech stocks and their growing prevalence in investors’ portfolios in the United States.

A bear call spread is simply a vertical call spread that bets on poor price performance. It’s sometimes called a credit spread.

A backdoor Roth IRA is effectively a strategy for making traditional IRA contributions, then converting them into Roth contributions.

Balanced funds have this title because, unlike more aggressive portfolios, they have both equity and bond components to consider.