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Hedge Fund

Hedge Fund

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

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

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Investment Trust

A company that pools money together from multiple investors and then invests it.
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Value stocks

Stocks in companies that aren’t necessarily growing fast, but instead are dependable and stable.
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Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

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

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.
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Growth stocks

These are stocks in companies that are considered to be “growing”. These companies may be delivering new products and services, or entering new markets.
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Conventional gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms. This is as opposed to an index-linked gilt where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).
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Net Income (NI)

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.
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Securities

Bonds and stocks.
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Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest
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