What is an 'OEIC'? Definition & meaning

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Net Income (NI)

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.

Oligopoly

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

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

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

S&P 500

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Fixed Income

An investment that provides a fixed rate of return, often over a specific set of time.

Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF)

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

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).

Venture Capital

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

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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