Month: July 2023

  • Upside risk (also used in German, more rarely upside risk and risk from improvement in the situation) EN

    In general, the possibility that the actual return from an investment may exceed expectations upside (the possibility that the value of an engagement may increase beyond …

  • Underwater (underwater) EN

    In the jargon of a call option, when the price of the underlying asset on the spot market is below the strike price, in other words …

  • Up-Tick Rule (so also said in German, more rarely HandelsbeschränkungsRegelung) EN

    Blocking of turnover on the stock exchange in Neuyork if the Dow Jones stock index rises by more than fifty points within a short period of …

  • Securities number EN

    In Switzerland, this is the usual designation for the securities identification number. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for …

  • Urukagina principle EN

    "Pay in best money!"; decree of the Sumerian (Sumer = an ancient country of southern Mesopotamia in present-day southern Iraq; the Sumerians are believed to have …

  • Security EN

    In older financial terminology, often used for collateral in the sense of depositing an asset in order to increase the probability that a creditor of a …

  • Inalienable and unsaleable EN

    In financial terminology, anything that cannot be supplied to the market (something that may not be sold, transferred or assigned to another). - See Fideïkommiss. Attention: …

  • Value-at-risk (also generally used in German; often abbreviated VaR; more rarely also value at risk) EN

    Possible loss of a position or a portfolio - during a certain period (= risk horizon), which - with a previously defined probability (= confidence level) …

  • Vacancy rate EN

    In statistics, the ratio of vacancies to the labor force. - See unemployment rate, two-pillar principle. - Cf. ECB Monthly Bulletin of February 2002, pp. 33 …

  • Tuition fee EN

    In Germany today, this term usually refers only to private schools and, more rarely, to universities (tuition fees). In older documents, fees for schools are also …