Coupon

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.

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Maturity value

What's the maturity value of a bond?
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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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Bond

Learn what a bond is
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Oligopoly

A situation in which a market or industry is controlled by a small group of companies.
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Formal admission

The moment new shares are officially admitted to the stock exchange and open to trading for everyone.
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Value stocks

Stocks in companies that aren’t necessarily growing fast, but instead are dependable and stable.
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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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NYSE

The world's largest stock exchange. Wall St HQ.
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Hypothesis Testing

A mathematical test used to determine whether a claim is true or false.
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