What is 'Venture Capital'? | Freetrade Dictionary

A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.

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Know Your Customer (KYC)

A legal requirement for financial firms to understand exactly who their customers are. Used to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

Volatility

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

Geometric Mean Return

A way of calculating compound returns on an investment or savings over a set period of time.

NASDAQ

A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.

DMO

The United Kingdom Debt Management Office. It’s an executive agency responsible for managing the government’s debt and cash needs, primarily through issuing gilts and Treasury bills.

Diversification

An investment strategy in which money is put into a variety assets.

Clean price

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

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.

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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