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Maturity date

Maturity date

The date on which a gilt is redeemed and the gilt holder receives the repayment of the nominal amount and final dividend or coupon payment.

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Collective investment scheme

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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.

Diversification

An investment strategy in which money is put into a variety assets.

Investment Trust

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

Gilt

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Beta

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S&P 500

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Venture Capital

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

Money weighted rate of return

Learn what Money Weighted Rate of Return or MWRR stands for in finance.

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