- 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.
A hedge fund strategy that invests in currencies, exchange rates, commodities, gold, bonds and fixed-income securities and is based on fundamental analysis of the global macroeconomy. Macro hedge funds are the oldest and best known. Their trading volumes are very high, and they apply a diverse range of instruments. These funds are regarded as highly speculative, as leverage is particularly high and managers also make use of derivatives, and especially financial futures. The aim is to maximize returns on the hedge fund through leverage.
Industry:Banking
A stock exchange order that links two transactions so that one is contingent on the other and they can only be executed together. With a contingent order the proceeds of the sale of one security can be used when switching to another.
Industry:Banking
Obsolete. A bank licensed to trade securities on a ring. See also stock exchange bank.
Industry:Banking
The rate of interest charged on an overdue debt, from the date of default to the date of eventual settlement.
Industry:Banking
Also: accounts, annual accounts. The balance sheet and profit and loss account/income statement of a company prepared at the end of an accounting period.
Industry:Banking
Place where banks are domiciled or are represented by business offices. In Switzerland only those localities are considered to be banking centres in which the Swiss National Bank maintains its own bank office or agency or is represented by a correspondent bank. This distinction plays a role primarily in connection with bill collection and discounting.
Industry:Banking
A grouping of equities, indexes or other factors combined in a standardized way, providing a useful statistical measure of overall market or sector performance over time.
Industry:Banking
Also: electronic bourse, screen-based trading. Trading system where stock exchange transactions are carried out via a computer system, e.g. SWX Swiss Exchange.
Industry:Banking
The pledging of several pieces of land as security for the repayment of the same claim, each property being encumbered with the full amount of the pledge. A multiple lien may be established only if the pieces of land belong to the same owner or are owned by debtors granting joint and several guarantee.
Industry:Banking
