What is 'Yield'? | Freetrade Dictionary

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Ponzi Scheme

A form of fraud designed to lure new investors, and pays the earlier backers by using the new investors' money.

Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS)

A set of standards which investors use to present their investment results.

Fundamentals

The data or information that is likely to impact a company's stock price.

Net Income (NI)

The money a firm is left with from sales after subtracting taxes and different business costs.

Dividends

Find out what dividends are and how they can contribute to the growth of your investment portfolio.

Money laundering

A method of moving money obtained illicitly through the financial system so it can be used legally.

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).

Know Your Customer (KYC)

A legal requirement for financial firms to understand exactly who their customers are. Used to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing.

LSE

London Stock Exchange, which was founded in 1571 and now has a market cap of almost $5 trillion.

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