Time Value of Money

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

A collection of investments, pooled into a single fund that can be bought and sold on a stock exchange.

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.

The amount of money generated by an asset during the time that it was held by an investor..

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An investor that is able to meet several regulatory criteria.

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

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.