Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

A collective investment scheme the investors pay money into in exchange for units. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.

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

The amount of money a user has stored in a financial repository.

Income from an investment as a percentage of its current price.

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Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

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.

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.

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