- Industria: Financial services
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UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Zeitraum, während die Abonnements für eine neue Wertpapiere Problem von der abonnierenden Agent (in der Regel eine Bank) akzeptiert werden kann.
Industry:Banking
List published periodically by a bank containing a selection of securities recommended for investment.
Industry:Banking
A cheque signed by the drawer with no amount specified. This is inserted by the payee on pre-agreed terms. Liability remains with the drawer.
Industry:Banking
Analysis of the securities in a safekeeping account according to market value, income as well as the risk distribution by industry, country and currency. The portfolio analysis is part of the advisory service and asset management.
Industry:Banking
Also: futures contract. A futures contract based on a financial instrument. Depending on the type of underlying a distinction is made between interest futures, currency futures, index futures and precious metal futures. See also commodity futures contract.
Industry:Banking
Means of enhancing profitability using borrowed money by exploiting the fact that the rate of interest on equity capital is higher than the interest payable on borrowed funds. A leverage effect can also be achieved with derivatives, enabling market operators to invest in sizeable holdings of an underlying for a relatively modest capital outlay. The upshot of leveraging is that any percentage change in the gains and losses on options and futures contracts will be larger than the corresponding change in the underlying.
Industry:Banking
Statistical measure of the linear relationship between two series of figures (e.g. performance of a security and the overall market). A positive correlation means that as one variable increases, the other also increases. A negative correlation means that as one variable increases, the other decreases. By definition, the scale of correlation ranges from +1 (perfectly positive) to -1 (perfectly negative). A correlation of 0 indicates that there is no linear relationship between the two variables.
Industry:Banking
(1) In the Swiss context only: a fixed or variable-rate security legally classed as a bond or debenture issued as a private placement. The maturity is usually between five and seven years. Notes are inexpensive financing instruments for foreign issuers and have become a popular medium-term investment among institutional investors.
(2) In other contexts, a note is a credit instrument consisting of a written, unconditional promise to pay a sum of money at some specified future date to a named person or to bearer.
Industry:Banking
Tax collected at source by withholding the amount of the tax from payments due to the taxpayer. See withholding tax.
Industry:Banking
English gold coin, made from 22 carat gold and first minted in London in 1816 under Queen Victoria. Due to Britain's numerous colonies, the sovereign became widely accepted and used worldwide and was long regarded as the quintessential unit of currency and investment. Half sovereigns were also issued.
Industry:Banking
