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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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Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

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.

Value stocks

Stocks in companies that aren’t necessarily growing fast, but instead are dependable and stable.

Arithmetic Mean

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

Unit Trusts

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

Leverage

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

Money weighted rate of return

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

Rate of Return

Profit on an investment, expressed as a percentage of the investment.

Investment Trust

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

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