Investment Return

What is yield to maturity and why is it useful?

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

A legal requirement for financial firms to understand exactly who their customers are. Used to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

The increase in the prices of goods and services over time, and the process by which money loses its value.

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

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

An investor that is able to meet several regulatory criteria.

A summary of a company's finances, including its assets, liabilities and shareholder equity.

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