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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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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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NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.
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Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated
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Leverage

A method of trading using borrowed money that usually involves a very high level of risk.
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American Depository Receipts (ADRs)

Tradeable assets that let Americans invest in overseas stocks using US laws and dollars.
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Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.
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Running yield

The annual interest payment (dividend) divided by the current market price of a bond.
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Geometric Mean Return

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

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.
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