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index-linked gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI). This is as opposed to a conventional gilt, where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms.

Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

Time-Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR)

A return calculated over the time period invested, that excludes extraneous elements, such as deposits to and withdrawals from the investment accounted.

Limit order

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

Leverage

A method of trading using borrowed money that usually involves a very high level of risk.

Ponzi Scheme

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

Quantitative easing

Find out what quantitative easing is and how central banks use this monetary measure to encourage economic growth.

Volatility

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

Oligopoly

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

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