Finance Topic 2: The Personal Life Cycle

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Aspirations
Things or experiences that people would like to have in the future, for example owning a home instead of renting.
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Assets
Things that a person or business owns.
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Bank Rate
The interest rate the Bank of England uses when it lends money to other banks.
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Demographic Changes
Changes to the size and structure of the population.
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Economic boom
A period when the country is producing and selling an increasing amount of goods and services.
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Interest rate
The amount, expressed as a percentage, that a financial services provider charger a borrower when it lends money, or pays a saver.
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Investements
Money paid into financial products; the aim is that the value of the product will grow over time and so the person will eventually receive back more money than they paid in. Investments are a way of saving over the medium or long term.
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Life assurance
A type of payment policy that pays out a sum of money if the insured person dies.
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Life cycle
The stages through which people pass between birth and death.
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Life expectancy
The number of years that people are expected to live, on average, to live, based on the year they are born.
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Mortgage
A loan taken out to pay for a property, usually over the long term.
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National Insurance contributions
Money deducted from the pay of people who are employed or self-employed and used by the government to fund state pensions and other benefits.
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Needs
Things that people need to survive, such as food, basic clothing and places to live.
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Office for National Statistics
The independant organisation that produces statistics on many aspects of life in the UK such as employments, health, housing etc.
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Pension
An income that people receive after retiring from work. in the UK, people receive a pension from the state; some people also receive pension payments from schemes run by their former employers or arrangements that they have made for themselves.
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Recession
A period of at least six months when the amount of goods and services the country is producing is shrinking.
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Redundancy
Losing a job because the business no longer needs, wants or can afford that job to be done.
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Risk Averse
Reluctant to take any kind of risk.
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Risk tolerant
Willing to take risks.
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Shares
Investments that represent part ownership of a company.
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Wants
Things that people would like to have but can survive without.
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Will
A legal document setting out what a person wants to happen to their assets after their death.
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Things that a person or business owns.

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Assets

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The interest rate the Bank of England uses when it lends money to other banks.

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Card 4

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Changes to the size and structure of the population.

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Card 5

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A period when the country is producing and selling an increasing amount of goods and services.

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