- Domeniu: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
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- Company Profile:
UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Instrument, das ein Besitz bedeutet position in einem Unternehmen (Aktien oder Aktien), ein Gläubiger-Verhältnis bei einer Körperschaft oder Regierung Stelle (Anleihen) oder Rechte Eigentum wie jene in Optionen oder Abonnement Rechte verkörpert.
Industry:Banking
Also: share portfolio. Portfolio which is invested in equities and to a small extent in money market investments and where the investment objective is to achieve a high long-term return on the international equity markets through capital gains and forex revenues.
Industry:Banking
Macro-economic term: effective deployment of the production factor labour over a given period of time. Employment can be measured in absolute (hours worked/number of people in employment) or in relative terms (employment rate).
Industry:Banking
Fixed-interest debt obligation in the form of a security usually issued to bearer. Debentures may be secured or unsecured. See also bond.
Industry:Banking
Government bond that need never be redeemed (but may be, at the discretion of the government); only the payment of interest is guaranteed. Issued most commonly in France and the United Kingdom, where such bonds are known as consols (short for consolidated annuities). For some years large companies have also issued bonds and notes without fixed maturities (perpetual floating rate notes).
Industry:Banking
A principle which states that the maturities of the loans granted by a bank should be congruent with, or match, the maturities of the deposits used to finance such loans. According to the rule, short-term transactions should be financed with short-term money, long-term transactions with long-term funds.
Industry:Banking
Also: business cycle, economic cycle, trade cycle. All the regular and irregular fluctuations in gross domestic product around a long-term trend level. An economic cycle consists of the following phases: upswing, peak, downturn or recession, and trough.
Industry:Banking
Night depository in the form of a vault which is used mainly by commercial clients to deposit their takings in safeboxes or safebags outside opening hours. Their use is regulated by written agreement.
Industry:Banking
Investments in tradable securities and book-entry securities of foreign issuers. The key motivation is to earn a return and not to exert an influence on the company's business operations. Examples include foreign bonds, money market paper, equities and fund units. Investments in derivatives are not generally regarded as portfolio investments these days.
Industry:Banking
Temporary assignment or conversion of debt into shares or similar equity paper. See also swap.
Industry:Banking
