Glossary of Investment Terms

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The NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) provides its own comprehensive Glossary of Investment and Securities Terms on its website at http://tinyurl.com/7w5wc.

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopedia that serves as a glossary for terms with which you may be unfamiliar. Each page on Wikipedia is created and edited by users of the site. An example of a page in this encyclopedia is titled "Private equity" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_equity) and gives a definition of the term along with related content sections such as "Private equity firms", "History", "External links", "Industry Organizations & Other Resources", "Articles", and "Videos". A related page titled "Venture Capital" is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital.