- Industria: 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.
Ratio which expresses the so-called risk-adjusted performance of an investment fund. If the average return on a security or portfolio is larger than its expected return, the alpha is positive. If the average return is smaller than expected, the alpha is negative.
Industry:Banking
Share which offers a good return but has only limited appreciation potential. The exposure to declining prices is also only marginal.
Industry:Banking
A form of money market investment developed in the US which is mainly used by the large commercial banks to balance daily liquidity needs. The surplus reserves of banks are traded through the Federal Reserve System.
Industry:Banking
Obligation on the owner of real property to render a specified service (such as maintaining a road through the property). Servitudes are recorded on the land certificate for the property.
Industry:Banking
Words stamped onto a bill of lading to indicate that the shipowner has received the goods for shipment. It does not indicate that the goods have already been shipped.
Industry:Banking
Takeover, usually made in the form of a public offering, with the intention of replacing the current management of the target company. Opposite: friendly takeover.
Industry:Banking
Difference between the capital of a corporation (joint stock company) stipulated in the articles of association and the capital actually paid in.
Industry:Banking
Also referred to as demand deposits. Bank balances which can be withdrawn at any time, i.e. without any prior notification.
Industry:Banking
