Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

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Professional Client

An investor that is able to meet several regulatory criteria.
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W-8BEN Form

Non-US individuals and businesses may have to file this form for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US tax authority.
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Leverage

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

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.
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52-week high/low

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.
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Venture Capital Trust (VCT)

A listed company run by a fund manager, investing mainly in private companies.e.
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Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works
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Net Asset Value (NAV)

The value of a company's assets relative to the number of shares it has.
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Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.
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