- 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.
Also: earnings before interest and tax. Basic earnings figure of a company derived from net profit for the year before deducting tax, interest or extraordinary items.
Industry:Banking
Also known as Settlement Communication System (formerly: SEGA Communication System). The SECOM system is a technical platform for the settlement of national and international securities transactions. SECOM is one of the few systems in the world that offers real-time settlement. The SECOM system is linked to other systems, such as the SWX system (Swiss Exchange) and the SIC system (Swiss Interbank Clearing).
Industry:Banking
Also: earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization. Absolute earnings figure of a company consisting of net profit for the year plus tax, interest, depreciation and amortization.
Industry:Banking
In terms of asset class: investments where the stock market is the main risk driver, i.e. exposure to corporate, region or sector risks. Includes listed stocks of energy / commodity & real estate companies.
Industry:Banking
SRI approach where investors make use of their rights as owners to enter into a dialogue with boards or management of companies with the aim of influencing corporate behaviour on environmental, social, ethical or governance issues. Engagement can take many forms ranging from dialogue with management, voting shares or issuing shareholder resolutions.
Industry:Banking
Endeavours by a company's management to steadily increase the value of the company for the shareholders. See also stakeholder value.
Industry:Banking
Ratio that measures the risk-adjusted performance of a portfolio by dividing the excess return (over cash) by the standard deviation of the portfolio's return.
Industry:Banking
Combination of banking and insurance services in one financial institution. Sometimes used to refer to the full range of financial services.
Industry:Banking
Investment fund which is not restricted to any particular countries, regions or sectors and which invests globally.
Industry:Banking
Option which can be exercised at any time, including on the expiry date. See also European option.
Industry:Banking
