Volatility

Trading in new shares before they’re officially admitted to the exchange, on the condition that admission goes ahead.

Understand what compound interest means and how it's calculated

Learn what's a collective investment scheme

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

Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.

A collective investment scheme the investors pay money into in exchange for units. The money is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.

What's the base rate?

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

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