What is 'volatility'? Definition & meaning

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Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Wall Street

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

Venture Capital

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

Maturity date

The date on which a gilt is redeemed and the gilt holder receives the repayment of the nominal amount and final dividend or coupon payment.

Accounting standards

The rules a company follows when preparing financial statements.

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.

Geometric Mean Return

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

Money weighted rate of return

Learn what Money Weighted Rate of Return or MWRR stands for in finance.

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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