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Yield

Yield

Income from an investment as a percentage of its current price.

Income from an investment as a percentage of its current price.

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Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Time Value of Money

The concept that money you have now is more valuable than the same sum in the future.

Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

A means of calculating the potential future return on an investment.

Unicorn

A startup valued at over £1 billion. They are rare, hence the name.

Venture Capital Trust (VCT)

A listed company run by a fund manager, investing mainly in private companies.e.

Arithmetic Mean

The sum of a set of numbers added together and then divided by the total amount of numbers in that set.

Earnings per share

We look at what earnings per share mean and how to calculate it

Beta

Learn what Beta stands for in finance.

Investment Trust

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

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