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Interest Rate

Interest Rate

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

The amount a lender charges for lending your money, or a borrower pays you for borrowing your money.

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Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

An investment trust specialised in investing in commercial property such as parking garages or GP offices.
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UK Treasury bill

A debt instrument issued by the UK government with a maturity of less than one year.
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Hedge Fund

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.
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Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest
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Value Investing

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

A measure of how much the prices of an asset or index vary over time.
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Quick ratio

Learn what quick ratio stands for in financial terms and how to calculate it.
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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).
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