Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

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

A security that is sold outside of an exchange.

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

A mathematical test used to determine whether a claim is true or false.

The official document a company publishes before selling shares to the public. Long, detailed, and worth a read.

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

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

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A form of debt investment that carries higher risk because of the likelihood that the issuer will default.