Investment Return

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

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

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

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works

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

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

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

Learn what quick ratio stands for in financial terms and how to calculate it.