Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered Investment Adviser with the state of South Carolina, where he launched ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset ...

If you’re getting into investing, you might have come across the term financial securities. Financial securities, or ...