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NYSE

The world's largest stock exchange. Wall St HQ.

The world's largest stock exchange. Wall St HQ.

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Forward pricing

Mutual funds are traded on a forward pricing basis, meaning the price you see will be different to the price you may trade at.
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Ponzi Scheme

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

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.
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Yield to maturity (YTM)

What is yield to maturity and why is it useful?
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W-8BEN Form

Non-US individuals and businesses may have to file this form for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the US tax authority.
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Money weighted rate of return

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

What's the base rate?
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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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Zero-Sum Game

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