- Industria: Financial services
- Number of terms: 25840
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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.
Counselling facilities of a bank or other specialized units in the area of asset management. Advisory services are geared to clients' requirements: capital growth or income-oriented. Unlike with a managed account, the client ultimately makes his own investment decisions. Investment advisory services may also include succession planning, drafting agreements and establishing foundations.
Industry:Banking
US banking law introduced in 1931 in response to the stock market crash of 1929 which prohibits commercial banks from engaging in investment banking and prevents deposit banks from dealing in securities.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: SPI. Broadest based Swiss share index, covering all domestic companies listed on the Swiss Exchange. Weighted by capitalization and dividend-adjusted, the SPI is an ideal benchmark for performance comparisons.
Industry:Banking
Provision in a company's articles of association whereby it shall not be bound by the obligation to make a public offer if it acquires more than one-third of the voting rights of a listed company. See also public offer.
Industry:Banking
Cessation of trading in a certain security during an ongoing trading session. On Swiss Exchange, a Stop Trading is automatically triggered as soon as there is a certain percentage difference between two paid prices. See also à la criée trading.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: GIPS. Recommendations issued by the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) aimed at ensuring globally uniform and modern performance reporting. The objectives are to ensure full disclosure and fair presentation of the performance of asset managers, and also to enable performance comparisons. See also Swiss Performance Presentation Standards.
Industry:Banking
Abbr.: SPPS. Recommendations issued by the Swiss Bankers Association aimed at ensuring uniform and modern performance reporting. The objectives are to ensure full disclosure and fair presentation of the performance of asset managers, and also to enable performance comparisons. See also Global Investment Performance Standards (GIPS), Gold GIPS.
Industry:Banking
Limit setting the next paid price which will trigger a buy or sell order being sent to the exchange. A buy order is triggered if the last price paid on the exchange is equal to or higher than the trigger limit. A sell order is triggered if the last price paid on the exchange is equal to or less than the trigger limit.
Industry:Banking
Negative change in ratings for a security. An example is an analyst's downgrading of a stock such as from "buy" to "sell".
Industry:Banking
