- 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.
Strategy of taking opposite positions in the shares of a takeover candidate and its likely buyer. Highly speculative investment technique.
Industry:Banking
Share of net earnings paid to a company's management, or members of the Board of Directors.
Industry:Banking
The right to purchase either in preference to others or before an offer is made to others.
Industry:Banking
To correct share prices when there are changes in capital structures, in particular when subscription rights are reduced or in the case of stock splits or reverse splits.
Industry:Banking
Also: limit option. Option that in contrast to normal calls and puts is subject to certain restrictions which create better premiums. If the underlying of a barrier option touches, exceeds or falls below a specific price or rate (barrier) during the term, the option is either activated or expires. See knock-in option, knock-out option.
Industry:Banking
A certificate attached to a bond or share which, when detached and presented to the issuer of the security, entitles the bondholder or shareholder to receive the interest payment or dividend or to exercise rights. Due to the dematerialization of securities trading, coupon is now often only used in a figurative sense. See also coupon sheet.
Industry:Banking
Term denoting participation in an underwriting syndicate by being named in the issue prospectus. The underwriter is listed like a syndicate member but is strictly speaking only a sub-participant because he has signed neither the loan agreement nor the syndicate agreement. See also sub-participation.
Industry:Banking
Figure obtained by dividing adjusted earnings per share by the share price for the financial year in question. It is the reciprocal of the price/earnings ratio, and is multiplied by 100 to give a percentage for comparison purposes.
Industry:Banking
A guarantee credit where the bank assumes liability towards a third party for the performance or payment obligations of its client. Contract bonds normally relate to the proper execution of work and the quality of materials supplied.
Industry:Banking
