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Costs and Charges

Costs and Charges

The money you pay when investing.

The money you pay when investing.

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Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.
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Investment Return

The amount of money made or lost from an investment. Usually expressed as a percentage.
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Rate of Return

Profit on an investment, expressed as a percentage of the investment.
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52-week high/low

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

The other free trade. International trade in which countries allow goods to flow across their borders without imposing import or export taxes.
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Wall Street

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.
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Xetra

A trading venue operated by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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OEIC

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.
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index-linked gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.
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