Financial Jargon Buster Dictionary

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S2P
S & P 500
Salary Sacrifice
Satellite Funds
Scattergram
Screening
Secondary Market
Section 226 (Retirement Annuity)
Sector
Sector Averages
Sector Index
Sector Risk Number
Section 32
Security
Securities
Segregated Fund
Seller's Market
Selling (Bid) Price
SERPS
Settlement
Settlement Date
Settlement Risk
SFC Recognised
Share
Share Capital
Share Certificate
Share Exchange
Share Holder
Share Option
Share Price Index
Share Register
Shares
Sharpe Ratio
Short Position
Shorts
Short Selling
Single Life Pension
Single Premium
Single Price
Single Pricing
Skandia Investment Management (SIM)
Skandia Investment Management Limited (SIML)
Smaller Companies
Small Gifts Exemption
Soft Dollars
Specialist Manager
Specific Risk
Spread
Stag
Stakeholder Pension
Stamp Duty
Standard Deviation
State Pensionable Age
State Pension Schemes
Stock
Stock Broker
Stock Exchange
Stock Market
Stockbrokers
Stocks and Shares
Stock Selection
Strategic Asset Allocation
Subscription
Subsidiary
Sum Assured
Sum Insured
Superannuation
Surrender Value
Swap
SWIFT
Switching
Switching Facility
Systematic Risk
Systemic Risk

Tactical Asset Allocation
Tactical Asset Allocation Overlay
Takeover
Taper Relief
Tax Credit
Tax Exempt
Tax Relief
Tax Year
Technical Analysis
TER
Term Assurance
Term Deposit
Testate
Thematic Manager
Tied Agent
Tiger Economies
Tillinghast Towers Perrin
Tilt
Time Horizon
Timing
Top Down Analysis
Topix
Top Slicing
Total Expense Ratio (TER)
Total Return
Tracker Funds
Transfer Payment
Tracking Error
Trader
Transaction Notes
Treasuries
Treasury Bills
Treasury Bonds
Treasury Notes
Trend
Trust
Trustee
Turnover

U-Skan
UK Resident (for tax purposes)
Unbundled
Under Funded
Under Insured
Underlying
Underlying fund
Underlying Inflation
Underperformance
Undervalued
Underweight
Underwriter
Underwriting
Unearned Income
Unit Linked
Unit Trust
Unitised With Profits
Units
Universe
Unlisted
Unlisted Securities
Utility

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