Personal Finance/Assets

      Personal asstes defination

      Personal assets in simple terms can be described as things (at times virtual things like web-addresses, copyrights etc) that possesses value. Additional, rather more important feature of assets is they generate personal income.

      Types of assets

      Personal assets can be broken down into different classes:

      1. Cash
      2. Money Market
        • Government money market
        • Taxable money market
        • Tax-free money market
      3. Bonds
        • Government Bonds
        • High-grade corporate bonds
        • High Yield Bonds
        • Global bonds
        • Convertible bonds
      4. Stock
        • Conservative domestic stocks
        • Aggressive (growth) domestic stocks
        • International stocks
        • Emerging market stocks
        • Small Cap Stocks
        • Mid cap stocks
        • Large cap stocks
      5. Real Estate
      6. Intellectual Property
      7. Commodities
        • Gold
        • Silver
      Last modified on 22 June 2012, at 11:36