Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

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Value Investing

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.
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Securities

Bonds and stocks.
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Time Value of Money

The concept that money you have now is more valuable than the same sum in the future.
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Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works
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Conventional gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms. This is as opposed to an index-linked gilt where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
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Dirty price

The total price payable on the purchase of a gilt. It’s calculated as the clean price plus accrued interest.
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UK Treasury bill

A debt instrument issued by the UK government with a maturity of less than one year.
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Accrued interest

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
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Zero-Sum Game

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.
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