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Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.

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Value Investing

The art of buying shares which trade below their value, according to the analysis of the value investor.

Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

Securities

Bonds and stocks.

Ponzi Scheme

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

Yield curve

A graphical representation of interest rates over time

Maturity value

What's the maturity value of a bond?

Maturity date

The date on which a gilt is redeemed and the gilt holder receives the repayment of the nominal amount and final dividend or coupon payment.

Oligopoly

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

Compound interest

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

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