What are 'costs and charges'? Definition & meaning

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Zero coupon bonds

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Dividends

Find out what dividends are and how they can contribute to the growth of your investment portfolio.

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.

Ponzi Scheme

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

Equity

The amount of money a company would be left with by subtracting its liabilities from the value of its assets.

Dirty price

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

OEIC

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

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