Whois & Analysis for postfinance.ch

Financial services are the economic services provided by the finance industry, which encompasses a broad range of businesses that manage money, including credit unions, banks, credit-card companies, insurance companies, accountancy companies, consumer-finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds and some government-sponsored enterprises.

Financial services companies are present in all economically developed geographic locations and tend to cluster in local, national, regional and international financial centers such as London, New York City, and Tokyo.

PostFinance was founded in 1906 and is the financial services unit of Swiss Post.

It is the fifth largest retail financial institution in Switzerland.

Its main area of activity is in the national and international payments and a smaller but growing part in the areas of savings, pensions and real estate.

To invest is to allocate money (or sometimes another resource, such as time) in the expectation of some benefit in the future.

Finance is a field that deals with the study of investments.

It includes the dynamics of assets and liabilities over time under conditions of different degrees of uncertainty and risk.

Finance can also be defined as the science of money management.

Finance aims to price assets based on their risk level and their expected rate of return.

Finance can be broken into three different sub-categories: public finance, corporate finance and personal finance.

Retirement planning, in a financial context, refers to the allocation of savings or revenue for retirement.

The goal of retirement planning is to achieve financial independence.