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Forward pricing

Mutual funds are traded on a forward pricing basis, meaning the price you see will be different to the price you may trade at.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Net Income (NI)

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.

Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.

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).

Account balance

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

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

Withholding Tax

A tax deduction made at the source of the payment.

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