What are 'securities'? Definition & meaning

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United States Dollar (USD)

The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

Time Value of Money

The concept that money you have now is more valuable than the same sum in the future.

Spot Rate

The currency exchange rate a bank quotes, valid with immediate effect.

Dividends

Find out what dividends are and how they can contribute to the growth of your investment portfolio.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Coupon

Also called a dividend, this is the fixed annual interest paid to gilt holders. It’s usually paid in two equal, semi-annual instalments and expressed as a percentage of the nominal value of the gilt.

Technical Analysis

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

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).

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.

Securities