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NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

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Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.
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Investment Return

The amount of money made or lost from an investment. Usually expressed as a percentage.
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Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.
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Total Return

This is the measurement of a fund’s performance in a specific period.
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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.
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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.
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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.
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Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated
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Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT)

An investment trust specialised in investing in commercial property such as parking garages or GP offices.
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