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Withholding Tax
Withholding Tax
A tax deduction made at the source of the payment.
A tax deduction made at the source of the payment.
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Gross Margin
The difference between a company's revenue and the cost to produce its goods/services, divided by revenue.
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Venture Capital
A type of financing that investors provide to startups, who sometimes announce getting said financing in TechCrunch, to big fanfare.
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Volatility
A measure of how much the prices of an asset or index vary over time.
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NASDAQ
A US stock exchange specialising in the shares of technology companies.
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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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Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)
A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.
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Bed & ISA
Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works
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OEIC
Unique to the UK, these funds pool together money to invest from multiple investors.
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Free Trade
The other free trade. International trade in which countries allow goods to flow across their borders without imposing import or export taxes.
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