What is 'Fundamentals'? | Freetrade Dictionary

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Ponzi Scheme

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

Wall Street

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.

Maturity value

What's the maturity value of a bond?

Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.

Leverage

A method of trading using borrowed money that usually involves a very high level of risk.

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).

Depository

We look at what is a depository and what role they play in keeping markets work.

Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works

Synthetic ETFs

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

Fundamentals