- Branche: Financial services
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- Company Profile:
UBS AG, a financial services firm, provides wealth management, asset management, and investment banking services to private, corporate, and institutional clients worldwide.
Forward purchase or sale of foreign exchange which is not offset by a corresponding spot transaction.
Industry:Banking
(1) Management tool designed to broadly and systematically identify, quantify and manage banking-related risk exposure.
(2) Service package provided by banks to commercial clients to help them limit risk exposure through the use of hedging instruments.
Industry:Banking
Measure of the fluctuations in the price, or rate of return, of a security within a specific period. Usually expressed as an annualized standard deviation.
Industry:Banking
1) The return generated by an asset over a period of time. Absolute return differs from relative return because it does not compare performance with other measures (such as a benchmark).
2) Investment strategy which does not seek to beat a benchmark index. Often the goal ist specified as a return that exceeds a money market rate by a certain amount.
Industry:Banking
Document required by law and issued by a company or public authority planning to issue securities on the Swiss securities market. It provides detailed information about the modalities of the issue, the company's earnings outlook and the securities to be issued (bonds, shares etc.) as well as information about the issuer/guarantors. See also prospectus liability.
Industry:Banking
The income remaining after deduction of all expenses during a specific period. In the case of banks, total income less interest paid is considered gross operating earnings, whereas total gross income minus all operating and non-operating expenses is called the net or clear profit. The disposable net profit consists of the net profit for the year plus any surplus carried forward from the previous financial year.
Industry:Banking
Also: spot price, spot, spot level. Rate of a currency or price of a security in a spot transaction. Opposite: forward rate.
Industry:Banking
