- 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.
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
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
Accounting apportionment items listed on the assets side of the balance sheet, such as expenses paid during the past financial year, but relating to the new fiscal year.
Industry:Banking
Término macroeconómico: porcentaje de personas que tienen un empleo en un país en relación con la mano de obra potencialmente empleable. Vea también Empleo.
Industry:Banking
(1) Término en un acuerdo sobre algunos pagos que se efectuarán en oro o en monedas de oro.
(2) Acuerdo de la cantidad de ciertos pagos que debe estar vinculada al valor del oro fino o de las monedas de oro especificadas (cláusula del valor de oro).
Industry:Banking
Una medida de la actividad económica que proporciona información sobre el estado de la economía.
Industry:Banking
(1) Stock with more limited rights than ordinary stock. This means that holders of deferred stock only have a claim on earnings once the dividend has been distributed to ordinary shareholders. Opposite: preferred stock; preferred shares; preference shares; preference stock.
(2) A share that does not have any rights to the assets of a company undergoing bankruptcy until all common and preferred shareholders are paid.
(3) A method of stock payment to directors and executives of a company through the deposit of shares into a locked account. The value of these shares fluctuates with the market and they cannot be accessed by the beneficiaries for the purpose of liquidation until they are no longer employees of the company.
(4) A share generally issued to company founders that restricts their receipt of dividends until dividends have been distributed to all other classes of shareholders.
Synonym for deferred stock.
Industry:Banking
En derivados o securities trading, una inversión en particular que es entrar en una seguridad. Ver posición larga, posición corta.
Industry:Banking
