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Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

Retail Prices Index (RPI)

An index published each month by the Office for National Statistics, which measures the level of retail prices in the UK. Cash flows on all index-linked gilts are linked to the RPI.

Geometric Mean Return

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

Hypothesis Testing

A mathematical test used to determine whether a claim is true or false.

Value stocks

Stocks in companies that aren’t necessarily growing fast, but instead are dependable and stable.

Conventional gilts

Gilts where the dividends and principal repayments are fixed in nominal terms. This is as opposed to an index-linked gilt where the dividends and principal repayments are related to movements in the Retail Prices Index (RPI).

Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

Wall Street

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.

Free Trade

The other free trade. International trade in which countries allow goods to flow across their borders without imposing import or export taxes.

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