Dirty price

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

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SPAC

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ESG investing

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.
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Unit Trusts

A collective investment scheme the investors pay money into in exchange for units. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.
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Conventional gilts

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).
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Money laundering

A method of moving money obtained illicitly through the financial system so it can be used legally.
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Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.
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Capital

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Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.
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Xetra

A trading venue operated by the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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