A comprehensive glossary of investing terms could go on for miles, but here are some basic words you're bound to run into. Learn these words to conquer confusion and impress friends with your thoroughly respectable investing intelligence.

Investing terms to know:

1. 12b-1 fee 29. International fund 2. Actively managed fund 30. Large cap 3. Aggressive growth 31. Life-cycle fund 4. Alpha 32. Lifestyle fund 5. Asset allocation 33. Load 6. Balanced fund 34. Market capitalization 7. Beta 35. Midcap 8. Blend fund 36. Money market funds 9. Bond fund 37. Moving Average 10. Bond 38. Mutual funds 11. Broker 39. Net asset value 12. Capital gain 40. No-load funds 13. Commodity 41. Passively managed 14. Convertible bond 42. Prospectus 15. Convertible preferred stock 43. Put option 16. Core holding 44. R-squared 17. Correlation 45. REITs 18. Dividend 46. Return 19. Diversification 47. Risk 20. Emerging market fund 48. Risk tolerance 21. ETFs 49. S&P 500 index 22. Expense ratio 50. Sector (specialty) 23. Federal funds rate 51. Small cap 24. Fund of funds 52. Standard deviation 25. Growth fund 53. Value fund 26. Growth stocks 54. Value stocks 27. Index 55. Yield curve 28. Index fund 56. Yield spread

1. 12b-1 fee -- An annual fee deducted from an investor's fund assets to pay for the distribution and marketing costs of the fund. 12b-1 fees are capped by law at 1 percent.

2. Actively managed fund -- A fund that uses a manager or team to analyze securities and try to beat the market return. The opposite of active management is passive management, found in index funds.

3. Aggressive growth -- This is an investment style of funds that hold positions in potential high-growth companies. Aggressive growth funds have high betas, meaning they tend to be more volatile than the stock market.