What is 'Ponzi Scheme'? | Freetrade Dictionary

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Investment Trust

A company that pools money together from multiple investors and then invests it.

Volatility

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

Nominal amount

The face value of a gilt. It represents the amount that will be repaid to the holder at maturity and is also used to calculate the dividend or coupon payment.

Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.

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).

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Venture Capital Trust (VCT)

A listed company run by a fund manager, investing mainly in private companies.e.

Income statement

A summary of a company's income and expenses over a set period of time.

Time-Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR)

A return calculated over the time period invested, that excludes extraneous elements, such as deposits to and withdrawals from the investment accounted.

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