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Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

More terms

Dividends

Find out what dividends are and how they can contribute to the growth of your investment portfolio.

Money weighted rate of return

Learn what Money Weighted Rate of Return or MWRR stands for in finance.

Alpha

The percentage by which an investor outperforms a relevant benchmark.

Capital

Learn what financial capital means

Synthetic ETFs

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

Equity ETF

An exchange-traded fund that is comprised of a set of stocks.

Fundamentals

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

Base rate

What's the base rate?

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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