What is 'gross margin'? Definition & meaning

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Nominal amount

The face value of a gilt. It represents the amount that will be repaid to the holder at maturity and is also used to calculate the dividend or coupon payment.

Costs and Charges

The money you pay when investing.

Beta

Learn what Beta stands for in finance.

Accrued interest

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

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

Withholding Tax

A tax deduction made at the source of the payment.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Account balance

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

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

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Gross Margin