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Dealer - participant on the market of securities who trades in them for own account and by order
Diversification - inclusion in a portfolio of various types of assets, to reduce the risk and improve the investment results of the portfolio. Diversification of portfolio can be made both among different types of assets (shares or bonds, for example), and among assets of one class but with different parameters. For example, a portfolio may cover bonds of various issuers with different maturities and different credit rating. As a whole, the risk of securities portfolio is lower than the risks of the individual securities in it.
Dividend - part of the earnings of a joint-stock company, which is distributed on an annual basis among the shareholders after payment of taxes. For the preference shares it is paid at the rate of preliminarily set fixed percent of their issue value. For the common stocks the dividend depends on the amount of the earnings, received by the company