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The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

A period of time that starts with the first day of the current calendar year and ends with today.

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

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

An investment strategy in which money is put into a variety assets.

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).

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

These are stocks in companies that are considered to be “growing”. These companies may be delivering new products and services, or entering new markets.