Clean price

Learn what a margin call stands for in financial terms.

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.

An investment that provides a fixed rate of return, often over a specific set of time.

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

When a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. Its stock market debut, basically.

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

The period after an IPO when insiders have to sit on their hands and can’t sell their shares.