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Coupon

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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Hedge Fund

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.

Value stocks

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

Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

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

Limit order

Learn what a limit order is and how to use it to make the most of your portfolio.

Value Investing

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

Synthetic ETFs

An ETF that that reproduces the return of an index through the use of swaps.

Gilt

What is a gilt?

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.

Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works

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