- 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.
Abbreviation for undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities. Undertakings under EU law whose sole object is the collective investment in transferable securities of capital raised from the public, which operate on the principle of risk diversification and where the units are, at the holders' request, repurchased or redeemed, directly or indirectly, out of those undertakings' assets.
Industry:Banking
Swiss Federal Act on Stock Exchanges and Securities Trading (SESTA) of 24 March 1995. Regulates the establishment and operation of exchanges and commercial trade in securities. The law also contains provisions on the disclosure of shareholdings and on mandatory public bids.
Industry:Banking
Purchase of new shares in a rights issue without investing additional funds; a shareholder sells exactly the number of subscription rights in a rights issue as are required to finance the purchase of the remaining subscription rights allocated to him or her. The aim is to enable the sum invested in a particular company to grow without investing additional funds.
Industry:Banking
Also referred to as the Tankan report. Comprehensive survey of Japanese companies conducted each quarter by the Bank of Japan and regarded as the benchmark for Japanese business sentiment.
Industry:Banking
Chinese gold coin of 1 ounce fine gold with a face value of CNY 100. Also minted with fine gold content of 1/2, 1/4, 1/10 and 1/20 ounce.
Industry:Banking
Also: Club of Paris (more rarely). International forum which convenes to negotiate rescheduling the debt of heavily indebted countries. The negotiations are held between the delegates of the various creditor and debtor countries. See also moratorium.
Industry:Banking
Also known as the ifo index. German leading indicator of economic trends published every month and derived from a survey of over 7,000 companies conducted by the ifo Institute for Economic Research. Firms polled are asked to offer their assessment of the economic situation and provide details of their short-term plans.
Industry:Banking
Abbreviation: IGLU. Structured product consisting of a bond and a call option on the market index. IGLUs offer a synthetic diversified share portfolio which is also hedged against losses (minimum capital redemption is guaranteed). See also structured product.
Industry:Banking
Equity sector incorporating shares of companies producing capital goods, offering corporate services, and transports. The respective MSCI Sector index acts as a benchmark for shares of companies belonging to this sector.
Industry:Banking
Equity sector incorporating shares of companies developing, producing and/or distributing software, hardware, or semiconductors. The respective MSCI Sector index acts as a benchmark for shares of companies belonging to this sector.
Industry:Banking
