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

When a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. Its stock market debut, basically.

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.

A return calculated over the time period invested, that excludes extraneous elements, such as deposits to and withdrawals from the investment accounted.

An index published each month by the Office for National Statistics, which measures the level of retail prices in the UK. Cash flows on all index-linked gilts are linked to the RPI.

The amount of money made or lost from an investment. Usually expressed as a percentage.

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