CFP Certification Korea: financial-planning foundations key terms
CFP Certification Korea: financial-planning foundations · Get comfortable with the vocabulary.
- Net worth
The difference between a household’s stated assets and liabilities at a specified date, distinct from recurring income.
- Cash-flow statement
A record of receipts and payments over a period, used to identify surplus, deficit and timing mismatches.
- Liquidity
The ability to meet payments using resources available at the needed time without unacceptable delay or loss.
- Planning horizon
The period over which a particular goal and its funding need are evaluated, which can differ across goals.
- Risk capacity
The financial ability to absorb adverse outcomes without undermining essential obligations, distinct from emotional willingness to take risk.
- Engagement scope
The agreed services, responsibilities and boundaries of the planner-client relationship, including relevant information and compensation arrangements.
- Monitoring
Periodic assessment of implementation, outcomes and changing circumstances to decide whether a financial plan requires adjustment.
- Diversification
Combining exposures to reduce dependence on a single source of risk, without eliminating all possible investment losses.
- Concentration risk
The potential adverse effect of excessive dependence on one issuer, asset class, sector or other common exposure.
- Duration approximation
An estimate of percentage bond-price change from a small yield movement, subject to the model and neglected convexity effects.
- Sequence risk
The effect of the order of investment returns on outcomes when contributions or withdrawals occur during the investment period.
- Strategic allocation
A long-term target mix of assets chosen to reflect the investor’s objectives, constraints and capacity for risk.
- Liquidity risk
The risk that an investment cannot be sold or accessed at the required time and acceptable price.
- Currency exposure
Sensitivity of a home-currency investment result to exchange-rate movements affecting foreign-currency assets, income or liabilities.
- Defined benefit
An arrangement defining benefits through a specified formula, distinct from simply promising the member a fixed account contribution.
- Defined contribution
An arrangement defining contributions while the eventual account outcome depends on investment results, fees and applicable withdrawal arrangements.
- IRP
An individual retirement pension account used within Korean rules for portability or additional retirement saving, distinct from an unrestricted brokerage account.
- National Pension
Korea’s contributory public pension arrangement, whose eligibility and benefit rules differ from Basic Pension and workplace schemes.
- Basic Pension
A Korean old-age support program with its own income-recognition and eligibility framework, not an automatic award for every pension contributor.
- Housing pension
A home-secured retirement-income arrangement whose conditions, guarantee costs, occupancy and settlement rules require product-specific verification.
- Longevity risk
The risk of living longer than the period for which resources were planned, increasing the need for durable income.
- Tax deduction
An amount that reduces the relevant taxable base under the applicable rules, distinct from a direct reduction of calculated tax.
- Tax credit
An amount applied against calculated tax liability subject to the applicable conditions, rather than a reduction of the income base.
- Marginal rate
The rate applied to the next relevant increment of taxable amount within the specified rate structure.
- Effective rate
Tax measured relative to a specified total income or taxable base, whose denominator should be made explicit.
- Beneficiary designation
Identification of the person entitled under a contract or arrangement, which need not resolve every associated tax or inheritance question.
- Estate liquidity
Resources accessible to meet obligations and expenses associated with succession without assuming immediate sale of illiquid property.
- Transition provision
A rule specifying how a legal change applies across dates, transactions or coverage periods instead of treating every case identically.
- Policyholder
The party entering the insurance contract and holding its contractual rights and obligations, which can differ from the insured person.
- Insured person
The person whose life or health is the subject of the relevant insurance risk under the contract.
- Beneficiary
The person entitled to the specified insurance proceeds under the contract, subject to its conditions and applicable law.
- Deductible
The portion of a covered loss or expense retained by the insured under the contract’s stated terms.
- Exclusion
A condition or category outside the policy’s promised coverage, which must be read with the actual contract.
- Risk transfer
Allocation of a specified financial consequence to another party under an arrangement such as insurance, without eliminating the event itself.
- Needs analysis
Assessment of the financial protection required after considering obligations, dependents, existing resources and relevant household or business circumstances.