What is 'Nominal amount'? | Freetrade Dictionary

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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).

Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.

Hedge Fund

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.

Volatility

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

Bull market

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Accrued interest

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

Bond

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Dividends

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52-week high/low

The highest, or lowest, price a share has traded at in a passing year.

Nominal amount