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EXITSWINGLEVERAGECARRYFRAUDNO RECOURSEBARRIEREXPERTISE
  • Exchange-traded funds 6 Gentle The smallest, most regular fingerprint on the site — the baseline every other shape on the ruler is measured against.
  • UK gilts 9 Gentle As close to the centre of the scale as anything gets — except on volatility, where 2022 proved 'safe' and 'stable' are different words.
  Exchange-traded funds UK gilts
Exit difficulty 1 1
Volatility 3 3
Leverage 1 1
Carry cost 1 1
Fraud risk 1 1
Protection gap 1 1
Barrier to entry 1 1
Expertise needed 1 2
Difficulty 6 Gentle 9 Gentle
In a sentence A fund that trades like a share, usually tracking an index for a few hundredths of a per cent a year — the most consequential financial product of the last thirty years.IOUs from HM Treasury: the benchmark for sterling interest rates, the backbone of UK pensions, and in 2022 the epicentre of a crisis that forced the Bank of England to intervene.
Unit One ETF share £100 nominal
Smallest realistic trade One share, typically £5–£500 £100 nominal via a platform or the DMO purchase service
Settlement T+1, alongside ordinary shares T+1

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