Inflation

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

Bonds and stocks.

What's the base rate?

Find out what quantitative easing is and how central banks use this monetary measure to encourage economic growth.

Listing a company on a stock exchange, or the shares that are genuinely up for grabs once it’s there.

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

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

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.