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Ponzi Scheme

Ponzi Scheme

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

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

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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

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

Technical Analysis

Examining price movements of shares and other assets, and trying to predict how they will move in the future.

Compound interest

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Fundamentals

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

LSE

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

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.

Leverage

A method of trading using borrowed money that usually involves a very high level of risk.

Custodian bank

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Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

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