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Investment Trust

Investment Trust

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

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

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Volatility

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

Maturity value

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Oligopoly

A situation in which a market or industry is controlled by a small group of companies.

Know Your Customer (KYC)

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

52-week high/low

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

SPAC

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Yield to maturity (YTM)

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LSE

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

Yield curve

A graphical representation of interest rates over time

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