- 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.
The number of units of one or several types of goods that can be exchanged for one unit of money. In simpler terms, purchasing power is the ratio between money and goods, or how much money will buy in a specific country.
Industry:Banking
Also: middle price. Arithmetic mean between several rates, for example between the bid and asked rates. Another term for average rate.
Industry:Banking
(1) Change in the price of a security.
(2) Change in an index covering part or all of a market.
(3) Change in the income generated by a portfolio.
(4) Effect produced by the investment policy employed by an investment advisor or a fund management company measured against the investment targets.
Industry:Banking
A telegraphic installation which immediately transmits the valid rates during a stock exchange session. It also transmits items of news.
Industry:Banking
Investment fund that invests mainly in commodity stocks or tradable commodities.
Industry:Banking
(1) The amount of money subscribed by the shareholders at par to a company. The equity capital of a public limited company is equal to the share capital plus any participation certificate capital.
(2) Capital stock of a public limited company. Legally governed in Switzerland by Art. 621 ff. of the Code of Obligations.
Industry:Banking
A statement of the assets and liabilities of a bank existing at a particular time or date. In Switzerland, the Banking Law and its Implementing Ordinance stipulate binding regulations for the preparation and publication of annual accounts and interim financial statements. Article 25 of the Implementing Ordinance details minimum requirements.
Industry:Banking
The planning, implementation and monitoring of measures designed to ensure that adequate liquidity is maintained, surplus funds are profitably invested and shortfalls are made up in good time and at low cost.
Industry:Banking
Mortgage note in which both lender and borrower are the same person. A mortgage note in the name of the owner is issued, for example, when a mortgage is repaid and the mortgage note is transferred to the name of the borrower.
Industry:Banking
The open market for lending or borrowing short-term funds (as a rule up to 12 months) and dealing in negotiable instruments. In addition to the national money markets, the Euromoney market has developed in recent years into an efficient international marketplace for dealing in short-dated loanable funds.
Industry:Banking
