What is a 'hedge fund'? Definition & meaning

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ESG investing

ESG is a hot topic right now for investors. Understand what ESG investing is all about and how you can use it to diversify your portfolio.

Leverage

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

Earnings per share

We look at what earnings per share mean and how to calculate it

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).

Alpha

The percentage by which an investor outperforms a relevant benchmark.

Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works

Arithmetic Mean

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

Margin call

Learn what a margin call stands for in financial terms.

Synthetic ETFs

An ETF that that reproduces the return of an index through the use of swaps.

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