What is 'Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)'?

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Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

Retail Prices Index (RPI)

An index published each month by the Office for National Statistics, which measures the level of retail prices in the UK. Cash flows on all index-linked gilts are linked to the RPI.

Investment Trust

A company that pools money together from multiple investors and then invests it.

Equity

The amount of money a company would be left with by subtracting its liabilities from the value of its assets.

Time Value of Money

The concept that money you have now is more valuable than the same sum in the future.

Forward pricing

Mutual funds are traded on a forward pricing basis, meaning the price you see will be different to the price you may trade at.

index-linked gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.

Bond

Learn what a bond is

Depository

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

Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)