Year to Date (YTD)

A tax deduction made at the source of the payment.

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The amount of money made or lost from an investment. Usually expressed as a percentage.

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

The interest earned on a gilt since the last dividend date. When buying a gilt, the buyer pays the accrued interest at the time of a transaction to the seller in addition to the clean price of the gilt

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

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

An ETF that that reproduces the return of an index through the use of swaps.

The quoted price of a gilt, which excludes accrued interest