Spot Rate

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

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

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Total Return

This is the measurement of a fund’s performance in a specific period.
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Wall Street

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.
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Value stocks

Stocks in companies that aren’t necessarily growing fast, but instead are dependable and stable.
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Arithmetic Mean

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

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works
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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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ESG investing

ESG is a hot topic right now for investors. Understand what ESG investing is all about and how you can use it to diversify your portfolio.
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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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Yield curve

A graphical representation of interest rates over time
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