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low-margin custody business, baby-sitting institutional assets

German translation: see below

06:55 Aug 15, 2000
English to German translations [Non-PRO]
Bus/Financial
English term or phrase: low-margin custody business, baby-sitting institutional assets
Selling such services is X´s way of goosing the low-margin custody business - which pays pennies per thousand dollars for baby-sitting institutional assets - ...
Birgit Schmidt-Leinigen
Germany
Local time: 07:45
German translation:see below
Explanation:
Selling such services is X´s way of goosing the low-margin custody business - which pays pennies per thousand dollars for baby-sitting institutional assets - ...

This is a rather derogatory statement that the English is making. In essence, it's saying that the low-margin custody business doesn't do anything except sit and watch the assets of institutional investors.

Custody business refers to Verwahrung or Depot -- my IRA (individual retirement account) is a custodial account - the investment fund keeps my money for me until I reach retirement age.
So I would suggest s.th. like Depotgeschäft [or Treuhandgeschäft or Verwahrungsgeschäft] mit niedriger [geringer] Gewinnspanne, maybe also Depotverwahrungsgeschäft.

As far as the babysitting insititutional assets goes - I would suggest "institutionelle Anlagen" [or Anlagewerte] for institutional assets, and I would try to work the term babysitting in there.

Maybe a phrase like "nur als Babysitter institutioneller Anlagen fungieren" would work.

Schäfer, Wirtschaftswörterbuch, gives Verwahrung for custody, Treuhandkonto for custodial account; Zahn, Bank- und Börsenwesen gives Verwahrung for custody, and Depot, Depotkonto, and depotmäßig verwahrte Wertpapiere for custodial account.
An institutional investor = institutioneller Anleger [Schäfer and Zahn]

goosing is literally "in den Po zwicken", but the figurative meaning in colloquial US English is to give someone a small scare.

I hope this helps a bit! I'm sure you can come up with a more elegant structure.
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Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 23:45
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Thanks for the quick answer and the additional information on "slam"...
Birgit
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Explanation:
Selling such services is X´s way of goosing the low-margin custody business - which pays pennies per thousand dollars for baby-sitting institutional assets - ...

This is a rather derogatory statement that the English is making. In essence, it's saying that the low-margin custody business doesn't do anything except sit and watch the assets of institutional investors.

Custody business refers to Verwahrung or Depot -- my IRA (individual retirement account) is a custodial account - the investment fund keeps my money for me until I reach retirement age.
So I would suggest s.th. like Depotgeschäft [or Treuhandgeschäft or Verwahrungsgeschäft] mit niedriger [geringer] Gewinnspanne, maybe also Depotverwahrungsgeschäft.

As far as the babysitting insititutional assets goes - I would suggest "institutionelle Anlagen" [or Anlagewerte] for institutional assets, and I would try to work the term babysitting in there.

Maybe a phrase like "nur als Babysitter institutioneller Anlagen fungieren" would work.

Schäfer, Wirtschaftswörterbuch, gives Verwahrung for custody, Treuhandkonto for custodial account; Zahn, Bank- und Börsenwesen gives Verwahrung for custody, and Depot, Depotkonto, and depotmäßig verwahrte Wertpapiere for custodial account.
An institutional investor = institutioneller Anleger [Schäfer and Zahn]

goosing is literally "in den Po zwicken", but the figurative meaning in colloquial US English is to give someone a small scare.

I hope this helps a bit! I'm sure you can come up with a more elegant structure.


Ulrike Lieder (X)
Local time: 23:45
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in pair: 1505
Grading comment
Thanks for the quick answer and the additional information on "slam"...
Birgit
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