- 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.
Gold is one element in the collective term for precious metals. Precious metals are characterized by their chemical durability, valuable physical properties and attractive appearance. Only gold, silver, platinum and palladium are used for capital investments; they are traded worldwide around the clock in spot and forward markets. Precious metal options serve as hedging instruments.
Industry:Banking
(1) Holdings of bills and similar paper managed or administered by a bank.
(2) A pool of investments owned by an individual or an organization. The portfolio can either be managed by the owner him/herself or by a professional portfolio manager. Totality of securities held by banks in custody for clients or for own account.
(3) All securities owned by a person or company.
Industry:Banking
Adjustment of the value of an asset on the balance sheet to its true value.
Industry:Banking
Fixed-interest debt obligation in the form of a security usually issued to bearer. Debentures may be secured or unsecured. See also bond.
Industry:Banking
A principle which states that the maturities of the loans granted by a bank should be congruent with, or match, the maturities of the deposits used to finance such loans. According to the rule, short-term transactions should be financed with short-term money, long-term transactions with long-term funds.
Industry:Banking
Also: business cycle, economic cycle, trade cycle. All the regular and irregular fluctuations in gross domestic product around a long-term trend level. An economic cycle consists of the following phases: upswing, peak, downturn or recession, and trough.
Industry:Banking
Accounting apportionment items listed on the assets side of the balance sheet, such as expenses paid during the past financial year, but relating to the new fiscal year.
Industry:Banking
Instrument that signifies an ownership position in a corporation (stocks or shares), a creditor relationship with a corporation or government body (bonds), or rights to ownership such as those embodied in options or subscription rights.
Industry:Banking
Macro-economic term: percentage of persons actually in employment in a country in relation to the potentially employable workforce. See also employment.
Industry:Banking
A measure of economic activity, providing information on the state of the economy.
Industry:Banking
