Education Articles
More people than ever are taking control of their finances and exploring the world of investing. But, the stock market can be a tricky and daunting thing to navigate if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Thankfully – we’ve got you covered. Our education section provides in-depth guides and articles across a range of topics to help you become a pro in no time.
Financial Glossary
List of Education Articles
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What is Diversification?
Diversification is a risk management strategy that involves combining a wide range of investments within a portfolio.
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What is a Balance Sheet?
A balance sheet is a financial statement that reports a company’s assets, liabilities and shareholder equity at a specified point in time.
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What is a Convertible Share?
Convertible shares are a type of security that pays a dividend and includes an option to convert to a fixed number of common shares after a...
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What is a Tax Credit?
There are many different types of tax credit and the value of each differs depending on the type of credit.
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What is the Tungsten Cube?
Tungsten cubes are the latest craze to hit the crypto community and become a hot meme topic. What are they, are they valuable. and what makes them...
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What is Alpha?
Alpha is a term used to describe an investment strategy’s ability to beat the market or its edge. Often referred to as excess return or abnormal...
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What is Dollar Cost Averaging?
Dollar cost averaging is a strategy where investors divide their total investment amount across periodic purchases to reduce the impact of...
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What is a Tender Offer?
A tender offer is a bid to buy all or some of a shareholder’s stock in a corporation. It is common practice for tender offers to be made publicly
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What is a Security?
A security is a fungible, negotiable financial instrument that has a monetary value. There are three primary types of securities, equity, debt and...
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What is a Bond?
Put simply, purchasing a bond is purchasing debt. You have essentially lent money to the bond issuer and they have committed to pay this back with...
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What is a Futures Contract?
Futures contracts are agreements to purchase something at a specific time and price. Sellers make profit by the value of the items falling before...
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What is ROA?
Return on assets (ROA) tells you how profitable a company is relative to its assets by comparing a company’s net income against the capital it has...
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What is Return on Equity (ROE)?
Return on equity (ROE) is a measure of how much profit an organization generates per share, and is used to measure a company's success at turning...
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What is ROI?
Return on investment (ROI) measures the profitability of an investment which you can use to compare the viability or success of different options.
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What is Risk Tolerance?
Risk tolerance is the level of variability in investment returns that an investor is willing to tolerate in their financial planning.
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What is an Earnings Report?
An earnings report is a document that all publicly traded companies are legally required to produce each quarter to outline the financials of the...
