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Zero-Sum Game

Zero-Sum Game

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

A situation in which one person's gain is another's loss.

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Stock Market

A place where shares of publicly listed companies are traded.

Wall Street

A street in New York that became a figure of speech for the financial markets of the US.

Yield to maturity

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Money laundering

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

Arithmetic Mean

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

United States Dollar (USD)

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

Annualised Rate of Return

The average annual return an investor sees over a set period of time.

Bull market

We explain what a 'bull market' means

Synthetic ETFs

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

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