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ESG is a hot topic right now for investors. Understand what ESG investing is all about and how you can use it to diversify your portfolio.

A listed company run by a fund manager, investing mainly in private companies.e.

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

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

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).

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

A graphical representation of interest rates over time

A measure of how much the prices of an asset or index vary over time.