investment income
Money from money
Investment income is money earned from assets rather than labor—returns on capital you've put to work.
This includes dividends from stocks, interest from bonds or savings accounts, rental income from property, and capital gains from selling investments at a profit.
Tax treatment often differs from earned income: Most of her investment income came from dividend-paying stocks.
Also called unearned income, though the term understates the effort of managing a portfolio.
- royaltiesOngoing payments to creators
- dividendsProfits paid to shareholders
- quarterly dividendsRegular corporate profit sharing
- capital gainsProfit from asset sales
- annuitiesPeriodic fixed payments
interest · money market · stocks · blue chip stocks · bonds · municipal bonds · tax free · equities · Wall Street · residuals · diversification · real estate · index funds · asset allocation · tax credits · withholding taxes · tax shelters · rental
- incomesalary, earnings, wages, pay, net earnings
- finance termsnet profit, gross profit, budget, credit, debt
- taxationtax, sales tax, tax return, tax refund, tax code
- income taxtax return, tax brackets, tax rates, tax bracket, tax rate
- investment returnsrate of return, dividends, ROI, capital gains, returns
- passive incomedividends, interest, royalties, capital gains, annuities
investment incomeearned income
Pay from work
wages · salary · employment income · active income · hourly wages
investment incomecapital loss
Selling asset below purchase price
investment loss · depreciation · capital expenditure · management fees · transaction costs