Investment Return

Learn what a limit order is and how to use it to make the most of your portfolio.

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

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.

A company that pools money together from multiple investors and then invests it.

The face value of a gilt. It represents the amount that will be repaid to the holder at maturity and is also used to calculate the dividend or coupon payment.

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Non-US individuals and businesses may have to file this form for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US tax authority.

A physical/digital place where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities.

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