Year to Date (YTD)

The money you pay when investing.

The total price payable on the purchase of a gilt. It’s calculated as the clean price plus accrued interest.

A return calculated over the time period invested, that excludes extraneous elements, such as deposits to and withdrawals from the investment accounted.

Investment funds that are often associated with riskier and shorter-term trading strategies.

Trading outside of a stock exchange's opening hours.

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

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest

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

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.