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The Motley Fool
April 2, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
UBS: You Hang In There The Swiss bank looks to cut its losses and put the crisis behind it.   |
Registered Rep.
December 11, 2007
John Churchill |
UBS Flushes $10 Billion, Gets $11.5-Billion Injection UBS announces it will take an additional $10-billion write-down related to sub-prime loan investments; and also that it has received $11.5 billion in capital from the sovereign fund of Singapore, as well as an undisclosed Middle East investor. |
Registered Rep.
March 16, 2012
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Betting Big On Asia UBS Wealth Management will embark on a global expansion outside the U.S., announcing yesterday it will hire another 500 advisers in the fast-growing emerging markets and Asia Pacific regions. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2008
Alex Dumortier |
Is UBS Calling the End of Universal Banks? UBS is reversing its "one bank" strategy by giving increased autonomy to its three businesses: Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Asset Management. |
Registered Rep.
July 28, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Brokerage Unit Turning the Corner? The "turning point" in client fund outflows is about to appear for UBS Wealth Management Americas. |
Registered Rep.
July 10, 2007
John Churchill |
With Wuffli Out, What Next for UBS? A Wealth Management Surge in the USA Peter Wuffli was replaced as CEO of UBS last week after the firm realized millions of dollars in losses in an internal hedge fund. |
Registered Rep.
August 6, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Advisors Welcome Mortgage Rollout Financial advisors at UBS Wealth Management Americas closely watched this week as the U.S. brokerage rolled out plans to sell more of its own mortgage and lending products through its retail brokerage force. |
Registered Rep.
October 31, 2007
John Churchill |
UBS Earnings Bomb Swiss banking giant UBS joined Merrill Lynch at the bottom of the credit related write-down pile with the release of its earnings. |
Registered Rep.
May 5, 2009
John Churchill |
UBS Posts Loss But Gains Retail Client Assets UBS posts its first-quarter earnings and blames bad loans on its books for the poor result. |
Registered Rep.
February 10, 2009 |
UBS Earning Get Kicked In The ARS! U.S. Wealth Mgt Unit Profit Wiped Out By ARS UBS announced a fourth quarter loss of U.S. $7.5 billion, capping a horrendous year for the Swiss firm. |
Registered Rep.
April 26, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Wealth Management Unit Improves Performance UBS Wealth Management Americas, rising from the ashes of its well-publicized disasters, had something to crow about this latest quarter (Q1 2011) |
Registered Rep.
February 9, 2010
Kristen French |
UBS Americas Bleeds More Client Assets in Q4, Advisor Attrition Way Down Clients continued to withdraw significant assets from the firm both in the U.S. and around the world. |
Registered Rep.
July 26, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Wealth Management on the Turnaround UBS Wealth Management Americas continues to improve, reporting pretax profit of $165 million for the second quarter. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008
John Churchill |
UBS Projecting More Huge Write-Downs, Recapitalization In addition to the write-downs and recapitalization, it was also announced that long-time chairman Marcel Ospel will be stepping down at the end of the first quarter. |
Registered Rep.
January 29, 2010
Kristen French |
UBS Morale Lifts A number of top financial advisors at the firm say that they are so far very pleased with the leadership of UBS Wealth Management CEO Bob McCann and his team. |
Registered Rep.
November 12, 2002
Rick Weinberg |
Wealth Management R Us! The Gnomes of Zurich to Drop Kick the PaineWebber Name The century-old PaineWebber name is going to be dropped from UBS AG's brokerage and investment-banking businesses in 2003, the company says. The new name is to be, UBS Wealth Management USA. |
Registered Rep.
September 3, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Hires Four HNW Advisors The latest hires by UBS Wealth Management Americas reflect its goal of attracting business from the ultra rich in mostly major metropolitan markets in the United States. |
The Motley Fool
March 20, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Don't Let Bear Stearns' Price Fool You Since news of Bear Stearns' deal with JPMorgan shares have been trading higher than the proposed $2 price. Why? |
Registered Rep.
July 8, 2009 |
Is UBS' Marten Hoekstra On the Way Out? A story in the Financial Times teasingly suggests UBS US Wealth Management is in for a big change at the top. |
The Motley Fool
May 4, 2007
Tom Taulli |
UBS Trims Its Hedge Stung by poor performance, the firm closes a key hedge fund. |
Registered Rep.
May 4, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Client Asset Outflows Slow in Q1 Improving market conditions softened the blow as total client assets hit $721.6 billion in the brokerage unit of the Swiss banking giant. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Keki Fatakia |
For Banks, Pink-Slip Showers Continue After a long string of job cuts at banks, UBS is the latest to slash 3,500 jobs in an attempt to save $2.5 billion annually. |
Registered Rep.
April 14, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Retail Brokerage Nearing a Turnaround? Client asset withdrawals have slowed at the embattled U.S. wealth management business of UBS where, in a positive sign to investors, it reported much stronger first quarter pre-tax profit than previously expected. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2008
Morgan Housel |
Waiting for the Next Bear Stearns A new survey shows that nearly 60% of 146 institutional investors polled expect another major financial firm to collapse in the next six months. |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Stanley Reed |
The Master Of Zurich How Peter Wuffli turned around UBS- and brought the glory days back to Swiss banking. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2012
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS' U.S. Brokerage Boosts Profits, Boasts Most Productive Advisors Despite global market conditions that lowered asset-based fees and transaction-based income, UBS Wealth Management Americas ended 2011 on firmer footing, earning $573 million for the year on revenues of $5.96 billion. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
The Tools Make The Man Looks like there's quite a market for new wealth-management software tools. |
BusinessWeek
November 19, 2007
Goldstein & Henry |
On the Subprime Endangered List Which CEO will be catching subprime heat next now that Citigroup's Chuck Prince is out? Bear Stearns' Jimmy Cayne may be vulnerable. |
Registered Rep.
August 5, 2009
French & Churchill |
UBS Close to Deal With Bob McCann, Reorg Under Way The move comes as the bank works to contain damage to its reputation done by the tax evasion dispute with the U.S. government. |
Registered Rep.
September 26, 2011
Kristen French |
UBS Wealth Management Not For Sale; Analysts Say Don't Rule it Out Completely; Veteran FAs Calm Interim UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti and UBS Chairman Kasper Villiger sent a memo to advisors re-emphasizing that WMA is not for sale, a rumor that has been persistent despite continued denials by executives at the bank. |
Registered Rep.
October 27, 2009
Kristen French |
UBS Hires McCann UBS announced that it has hired Bob McCann as the CEO of its UBS Wealth Management Americas unit, replacing former head of the division, Martin Hoekstra. |
Registered Rep.
February 8, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
Some Bright Spots Among the Red Ink for UBS UBS Wealth Management Americas added client assets and a handful of advisors in the fourth quarter, cushioning the blow from steep legal costs that resulted in a pre-tax loss of $34.6 million. |
BusinessWeek
February 11, 2010
Elena Logutenkova |
No Time to Rest at UBS The Swiss bank is profitable again - but CEO Grubel still needs to stem the exodus of wealthy clients. |
BusinessWeek
July 25, 2005
Frederik Balfour |
Eager To Shepherd Asia's New Money Asia has been minting new millionaires faster than any other region in the world, a fact that hasn't been lost on UBS. |
The Motley Fool
July 2, 2008
Tom Hutchinson |
UBS Purges Board Heads roll as UBS faces a myriad of financial and legal problems. |
Registered Rep.
October 26, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Stops the Bleeding, Adds Retail Client Assets Clients assets at UBS Wealth Management Americas outpaced withdrawals in its latest third-quarter results, a singular achievement last reported by the brokerage unit in the first quarter of 2009. |
The Motley Fool
September 15, 2011
Cliff D'Arcy |
Rogue Trader Loses UBS $2 Billion Switzerland's banking giant admits to an unauthorized loss of nearly 1.3 billion pounds! |
Registered Rep.
August 31, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Beefs Up Alt Investments for Risk Reduction Jerry Pascucci, a former Morgan Stanley Smith Barney executive, is joining UBS Wealth Management Americas on September 7 as head of alternative investments, according to an internal memo obtained by Registered Rep. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2008
Nate Wendler |
Capital Destroyers This chart depicts the write-downs and reserves taken by financial firms, and shows the shocking destruction of capital, as measured by book value and earnings. |
Registered Rep.
December 10, 2009
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Announces New Comp Plan; Comp Focused on FA Loyalty and Future Production UBS' plan is a departure from brokerages where compensation is typically based on trailing commissions rather than on growth. |
Registered Rep.
August 27, 2009
Halah Touryalai |
Uncertainty at UBS, Can UBS Afford McCann? The latest news out of UBS involves former Merrill executive, Bob McCann, who's dealing with a non-compete clause that's keeping him from supposedly joining the firm. |
Registered Rep.
December 1, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
McCann Reassures UBS FAs as His Profile Grows with New Appointment Robert J. McCann's responsibilities at Swiss bank giant UBS dramatically expanded with a new appointment Thursday. |
Financial Planning
June 1, 2008
Dakin Campbell |
UBS to Exit Muni Biz UBS confirms reports that it will exit or sell the institutional municipal securities group in an effort to focus on core client businesses after reporting first-quarter 2008 losses of $11 billion. |
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
UBS Strikes Up a Familiar Band Overall, UBS finished the quarter with a loss of $624 million, due in great part to the $3.6 billion in losses it reported in its fixed income currencies and commodities trading business. |
Registered Rep.
October 5, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Says Headhunters Playing Dirty, Unfairly Smearing the Firm Despite extensive media coverage describing nervous financial advisors and clients at the firm, insiders contend that much of this unflattering coverage is over-the-top. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
A Big Gulp for Big Banks? Is it possible that some big banks are writing off more than they need so that results in future periods can look better? |
Registered Rep.
March 27, 2012
John Aidan Byrne |
Management Shakeup at UBS Wealth-Management Americas A management shakeup by CEO Bob McCann at the Americas brokerage unit of Swiss bank UBS AG will see two of his top executives assume more direct responsibility over its financial advisors, according to people familiar with the changes. |
Registered Rep.
February 7, 2011
Diana Britton |
UBS: Bonds No Longer A Safe Haven Rising interest rates in advanced economies, increasing sovereign debt concerns and the potential for higher inflation will hurt the bond market, according to UBS' "The Decade Ahead" report. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008
Christopher C. L. Anderson |
Sovereign Wealth: It Could be Good for You Concern over the so-called sovereign wealth funds' recent investments in big global companies and U.S. banks are overblown. |
Registered Rep.
October 8, 2009 |
UBS Hires Bob McCann UBS has hired former Merrill Lynch executive Bob McCann to run its wealth management division in the Americas. |
