What is 'yield'? Definition & meaning

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United States Dollar (USD)

The famous greenback our friends in the US use as currency.

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.

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.

Fundamentals

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

Investment Return

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

Arithmetic Mean

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

Over-The-Counter (OTC)

A security that is sold outside of an exchange.

Accrued interest

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

Bond

Learn what a bond is

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