Thursday, September 15, 2016

Stock Definition

Stock Definition

‘Companies’ and ‘Shares’ with limited liability were devised during the colonial period to mitigate high risk and uncertainty involved in the seafaring ventures. Shares enabled raising huge sums required to fund expeditions from many small investors and limited liability protected the investors from creditors accessing their personal properties in case of a failed venture. Thus a share is ownership of a company into a tiny unit or block.

With the advent of stock exchanges the shares got listed on the exchanges bringing a great amount of liquidity to shares.

Stock is a term used to describe shares in general while the word share is used in the context of a particular company. For example you own shares of NMDC Ltd. or SJVN Ltd. You also own stocks of a great number of Indian companies.

It is not uncommon, at least in India that the two terms stocks and shares are used interchangeably.


A Share of 'The Empire Jute Company Limited"

Passive Income Definition

Meaning and Definition

Passive Income is income that accrues to a person without carrying on of active vocation or profession or the expenditure of any physical or mental labor or time. Passive income is the antonym to ‘active income’, which requires carrying the person’s active engagement and exertion.

Passive income can accrue to a person from two sources:
  1. Inheritance
  2. Investments

For a majority of us, only sustained, prudent and significant investments can result in the creation of adequate passive income to liberate us from the drudgery of the necessity to work for a living, which is called ‘financial freedom’.

Examples:

Examples of passive incomes are:
  • Rent
  • Dividend
  • Interest
  • Royalty

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