Year to Date (YTD)

A period of time that starts with the first day of the current calendar year and ends with today.

A period of time that starts with the first day of the current calendar year and ends with today.

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Custodian bank

Learn what a custodian bank is.
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Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Product (PRIIP)

An investment where, regardless of its legal form, the amount repayable to the retail investor is subject to fluctuations.
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UK Treasury bill

A debt instrument issued by the UK government with a maturity of less than one year.
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Investment Trust

A company that pools money together from multiple investors and then invests it.
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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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Bed & ISA

Understand what Bed and ISA is and how it works
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Base rate

What's the base rate?
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Equity

The amount of money a company would be left with by subtracting its liabilities from the value of its assets.
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Zero coupon bonds

What is a zero coupon bond?
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