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Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

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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Junk Bond

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

Depository

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

LSE

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

Hedge Fund

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.

Money weighted rate of return

Learn what Money Weighted Rate of Return or MWRR stands for in finance.

Ponzi Scheme

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

Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

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