- 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.
Part of the annual financial statements, listing all inflows and outflows of cash and therefore the change in liquidity during the year under review.
Industry:Banking
(1) Agreement whereby commercial banks temporarily borrow liquidity from the central bank. Under a repurchase agreement, the Swiss National Bank (or equivalent) will buy a specific quantity of securities for a set period and subsequently sell them back to the bank it bought them from. Also called repos.
(2) The acceptance of securities (such as equity paper) by a bank or financing institution for a limited period, with the depositor or a third party undertaking to repurchase the relevant securities after a stipulated period.
Industry:Banking
Balance brought (carried) forward from one accounting period to the next.
Industry:Banking
Securitized claim to a share in the profit or dividend. Dividend coupons may be attached to regular shares, dividend-right certificates or participation certificates. Not customary in the United States. Opposite: fixed-interest securities.
Industry:Banking
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
