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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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Yield to maturity (YTM)

What is yield to maturity and why is it useful?

Custodian bank

Learn what a custodian bank is.

Geometric Mean Return

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

Net Asset Value (NAV)

The value of a company's assets relative to the number of shares it has.

Unit Trusts

A collective investment scheme the investors pay money into in exchange for units. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.

Year to Date (YTD)

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

ESG investing

ESG is a hot topic right now for investors. Understand what ESG investing is all about and how you can use it to diversify your portfolio.

OEIC

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.

Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works

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