Dirty price

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

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

The money you pay when investing.

A summary of a company's finances, including its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity.

An investment that provides a fixed rate of return, often over a specific set of time.

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.

The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

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.

The amount of money generated by an asset during the time that it was held by an investor..