Maturity date

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

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

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).

A graphical representation of interest rates over time

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.

When a private company sells shares to the public for the first time. Its stock market debut, basically.

The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.