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  1. How do I list the beneficiaries of my life insurance policies if I have a trust?

  2. Does the federal government fund any NGOs? Which ones?

  3. What is the difference between redemption of shares and repurchase of shares?

  4. How do NGOs get funding?

  5. If I want to have some cash in a liquid account for unexpected emergencies, what is best? A savings account or another type?

  6. What is a triple tax-free municipal bond?

  7. How are capital gains and dividends taxed differently?

  8. Is a dividend reduction a signal to sell?

  9. What is pay-as-you-drive auto insurance?

  10. Are 401(k) loans taxed?

  11. If a LEAP option is purchased and held for more than 12 months, is the tax treatment long term?

  12. What is an annuity?

  13. How does the government spend my taxes?

  14. What is a monopoly?

  15. What is the difference between a credit report and a credit score?

  16. Who is eligible for student loan forgiveness?

  17. What is the difference between a stock buyback and management buyout?

  18. What is a stock ticker?

  19. What is an asset?

  20. What exactly is a startup?

  21. What happens if I cannot pay a margin call?

  22. How do you flip a home?

  23. How do I start using technical analysis?

  24. Is there ever a bad time to invest in gold?

  25. What is a reasonable amount of debt?

  26. How are share prices set?

  27. Where can I look for a financial planner?

  28. What exactly is being done when shares are bought and sold?

  29. What is the difference between positive and normative economics?

  30. Can my insurance company refuse me coverage?

  31. What pension benefits are available to military personnel?

  32. When buying a car, is it better to have a trade in or a down payment?

  33. Is it a good idea to buy mutual funds from banks?

  34. What should you do when you're five years from retiring?

  35. Why do some companies pay a dividend, while other companies do not?

  36. What are the differences between a 401K and an IRA?

  37. Does paying my utility bills on time improve my credit score?

  38. How old should you be to get life insurance?

  39. What is QE3 (quantitative easing)?

  40. If I am looking to get an Investment Banking job. What education do employers prefer? MBA or CFA?

  41. Is it possible to beat the market?

  42. What is an IPO lock-up period and how long is it?

  43. Besides a savings account, where is the safest place to keep my money?

  44. Can I still pass the CFA Level I if I do poorly in the ethics section?

  45. What is a dividend?

  46. How does TARP affect the economy?

  47. How do I retire?

  48. Where can I purchase options?

  49. How is Libor determined?

  50. Suppose my garage collapsed onto my car. Are damages covered by my home insurance or auto insurance?

  51. How long can you short sell for?

  52. What credit cards offer the lowest interest rates?

  53. I recently got married and now we (together) have two houses (hers and mine). I have only lived in mine for 13 months and was wondering if there was an exemption to capital gains tax if we could not reasonably afford the two properties?

  54. Why should I pay myself first?

  55. How can I invest in a foreign exchange market?

  56. What is the difference between weighted average shares outstanding and basic weighted average shares?

  57. What is the difference between investing and trading?

  58. I want to transfer my house title to my child, what are the costs and tax consequences of doing so?

  59. What are the main differences between the Republican and Democratic approaches to regulating the economy?

  60. What are austerity measures?

  61. Why do interest rates change?

  62. What are Government Pension Offsets, and who is subject to them?

  63. How do you plan for retirement if you have multiple employers? Can you combine retirement plans from multiple employers?

  64. What are the biggest factors that can affect my credit score?

  65. What is the difference between arbitrage and speculation?

  66. My daughter would like to use some of her Roth IRA to pay for some current tuition fees and loans. Can she do this without a penalty?

  67. I have a 403(b) from a old employer. I would like to convert it to a 401(k). How can I do that?

  68. What is finance?

  69. How does a company switch from one stock exchange to another?

  70. What is the relationship between inflation and interest rates?

  71. What is a derivative?

  72. If you have a house that is under your company name and you want to sell it back to yourself, do you have to pay capital gains taxes?

  73. Should I pay my mortgage with my credit card to earn credit card rewards?

  74. Our broker switched firms in the middle of 2011. As a result we lost track of our required minimum distribution (RMD) amounts and ended up withdrawing much more than our RMD. Is there a way to defer some of the withdrawal to 2012 to avoid the tax liabilit

  75. What is the correlation between American stock prices and the value of the U.S. dollar?

  76. What do the terms weak dollar and strong dollar mean?

  77. What is the hard-to-borrow list?

  78. What is the difference between risk tolerance and risk capacity?

  79. What is "whoops" and how did it come to refer to one of the biggest municipal bond defaults in history?

  80. How do you make money trading money?

  81. How do I convert dollars to pounds, euros to yen, or francs to dollars, etc.?

  82. How does margin trading in the forex market work?

  83. What is the difference between trading currency futures and spot FX?

  84. Why is the U.S. dollar shown on the top of some currency pairs and on the bottom of others?

  85. What does it mean when there is "price action"?

  86. Can a company be state-run and publicly traded at the same time?

  87. How can I trade in cross currency pairs if my forex account is denominated in U.S. dollars?

  88. Why is currency always quoted in pairs?

  89. Where do most fund managers get their market information?

  90. What do the different types of mutual fund classes mean?

  91. If my mortgage lender goes bankrupt, do I still have to pay my mortgage?

  92. What happens during the consolidation phase of an investor's life cycle?

  93. What are the rules for placing stop and limit orders in forex?

  94. Is it possible to trade forex options?

  95. What happens during the spending/gifting phase of an investor's life cycle?

  96. How can I use layaway plans for budgeting?

  97. What does deflation mean to investors?

  98. I want to start buying stocks. Where do I start?

  99. How do I use an arbitrage strategy in forex trading?

  100. How are international exchange rates set?

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    How do I list the beneficiaries of my life insurance policies if I have a trust?

  2. Does the federal government fund any NGOs? Which ones?

  3. If I want to have some cash in a liquid account for unexpected emergencies, what is best? A savings account or another type?

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