Nominal amount

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

The average annual return an investor sees over a set period of time.

A situation in which a market or industry is controlled by a small group of companies.

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A collective investment scheme the investors pay money into in exchange for units. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.

The concept that money you have now is more valuable than the same sum in the future.

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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.

How banks work out what investors will pay for shares before an IPO, one order at a time.