Investment Types

Investment products

Cash & Fixed Interest investments
Traditional Guaranteed Investment Certificates (GICs) -Canada or Certificates of Deposit (CD’s),- US
Market-linked guaranteed investments
money market accounts
Short-Term Deposits
Bonds
Zero Coupon or "Strip" Bonds
Treasury bonds (T-bonds),
municipal bonds (munis),
corporate bonds.
government bonds
high yield bonds
preferred shares.
Stocks & Options & Shares
Mutual funds
Segregated funds
Closed-end Investment Funds
Money Market Funds:
Fixed Income Funds:
Bond mutual funds
Global mutual funds
gold mutual fund
Growth or Equity Funds:
Balanced Funds:
Global and Foreign Funds:
Hedge Funds
pooled funds
Index (Exchange-Traded) Funds (Below are some most popular indexes)
---- Dow Jones Industrial Average, DJIA (US)
---- Standard & Poor's 500, S&P 500 (US)
---- Nasdaq Composite Index (US)
---- Wilshare 5000 Total Market Index (US)
---- Russell 2000 Index (US)
---- FTSE (UK)
---- Nikkei (Japan)
---- DAX (Germany)
---- Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX (Canada)
---- CAC 40 (France)
Unit Investment Trusts
Managed funds
Superannuation
Annuities
Buying gold and silver
Buying collectibles
Short-term Investments are: Bank savings accounts, money-market funds, Certificates of Deposit (CD’s), and Treasury Bills (T-bills)
equity investment, and bonds (including bonds denominated in foreign currencies).

Canada
Portfolio Funds
RESP
RRIF
RRSP
Australia
PROPERTY
PROPERTY SECURITIES FUNDS SHARES
AUSTRALIAN SHARE FUNDS
INTERNATIONAL
INTERNATIONAL SHARE FUNDS
CASH
CASH BASED INVESTMENTS
FIXED INTEREST
AUSTRALIAN FIXED INTEREST FUNDS
MORTGAGE FUNDS
TERM DEPOSITS AND DEBENTURES
DIVERSIFIED CAPITAL STABLE FUNDS
DIVERSIFIED BALANCED FUNDS
ALLOCATED PENSION FUNDS
COMPLYING SUPERANNUATION PENSION FUNDS