- 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.
A method of purchasing medium term claims whereby the purchaser waives any entitlement to enforce the claim against its original owner. Forfaiting is normally used as a method of export financing, with an exporter selling a claim for receivables against an importer to a third party, thereby converting a sale on deferred payment terms (between 1 and 5 years) into a sale against cash payment.
Industry:Banking
Strategy of hedging a share portfolio with put options on a share index, e.g. SMI. See also hedging.
Industry:Banking
Abbr. P/E or PER. Relationship (ratio) of the share price to the net profit of a company. It is calculated by dividing the market price of the shares by the earnings per share. The price/earnings ratio is one of the most widely used indicators for the assessment of stocks.
Industry:Banking
Price at which a convertible bond would have to sell as a conventional bond relative to yields of other bonds of similar maturity, size and quality.
Industry:Banking
Intentional reversal of deflation through aggressive monetary policy easing.
Industry:Banking
Also known as blue chip. Share of widely known companies with large stock market capitalizations and which are heavily traded on the stock markets.
Industry:Banking
Positive change in ratings for a security. An example is an analyst's upgrading of a stock such as from "sell" to "buy".
Industry:Banking
Commission of the Swiss Exchange which decides independently on the admission of securities to the Swiss Exchange and defines the attendant reporting obligations of the listed companies.
Industry:Banking
Person or firm engaged in arbitrage. Arbitrageurs take substantial positions in value terms in order to profit from extremely small price fluctuations, thus ensuring high market liquidity.
Industry:Banking
Also: stock exchange dealer, broker. An individual or firm which trades professionally on the stock exchange in its own name on behalf of clients. More precisely, the broker (as opposed to the dealer) has merely an intermediary or negotiating function in that it contracts in its own name but for the account of the client or provides the possibility of such trades. See also securities trader.
Industry:Banking
