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Registered Rep.
July 28, 2009
John Churchill |
IRS Tailing UBS Bankers and Advisors The IRS has upped the ante in its fight to gather thousands of names of alleged tax-dodging American UBS clients, by sending IRS agents to tail the firm's bankers and financial advisors as they visit clients.   |
Registered Rep.
July 13, 2009 |
Swiss and U.S. Tension Rising Over UBS Tax Evasion Case The problem continues to be that Swiss banking laws -- which say tax fraud is illegal, but not tax evasion -- protect the names of the 52,000 American clients and giving them up would violate Swiss criminal law. |
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 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. |
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.
February 18, 2009
John Churchill |
UBS Nailed With $780 Million Fine, Admits To Aiding Tax Dodge Clients The U.S. government has taken its pound of flesh from UBS today. According to a Department of Justice press release. |
Registered Rep.
April 16, 2009
John Churchill |
UBS to Cut Lower Producing Advisors The 8,700 jobs UBS plans to cut by the end of 2010 will include 2,000 in the Wealth Management division, many of them financial advisors. |
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
June 2, 2011
David Voreacos |
The IRS Grills Taxpayers on Offshore Accounts IRS agents and prosecutors have interviewed more than 200 offshore-bank clients to learn who helped them avoid taxes. |
Financial Advisor
April 2009 |
A Swiss Miss The Internal Revenue Service is cracking down on tax cheats hiding money in foreign countries, and financial advisors who have wealthy clients with cash stashed overseas better hope their clients properly reported such funds. |
Registered Rep.
May 8, 2008 |
UBS Needs A Lift Ticket UBS is facing serious scrutiny by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to determine whether or not the bank aided clients in committing tax evasion from 2000 to 2007. |
Registered Rep.
December 3, 2009
Kristen French |
IRS Investigates Stanford Clients With Offshore Accounts The IRS believes many of Allen Stanford's clients used offshore accounts to conceal income. |
Registered Rep.
October 27, 2009
John Aidan Byrne |
McCann Vows to Return UBS Wealth Management To Profitability New CEO Robert J. McCann says the wealth management division of UBS will not be put on the block. |
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.
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.
October 25, 2011
Kristen French |
UBS Wealth Management Unit Pulls Into First Place, McCann Tells Troops The "rogue" trading loss and departure of CEO Oswald Grubel doesn't seem to have driven clients away from UBS in the third quarter. |
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. |
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.
November 12, 2008
John Churchill |
UBS Executive Indicted, Faces Up To Five-Years Jail Time The U.S. Government's investigation of cross-border business by UBS has resulted in an indictment of Raoul Weil, Chairman and CEO of UBS Global Wealth Management and Business Banking. |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. |
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.
February 19, 2009
John Churchill |
UBS Wealth Mgt Executive On The Lam; U.S. Promises To Find Tax Cheats--And The Advisors Who Assist Them Allen Stanford isn't the only high profile financial executive currently on the run from authorities. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2008
Andrew Ackerman |
In First, Mass. Sues UBS In the first state-level lawsuit against an investment firm over auction-rate securities, Massachusetts has filed securities fraud charges against UBS for selling retail investors auction-rate paper as "liquid, safe, money-market" instruments even though the defendants knew it was not. |
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.
March 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Everybody Wants Their Overtime UBS said it has agreed to pay $89 million to settle class-action wage and hours claims of reps filed this past summer in several federal courts. |
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.
February 9, 2006
John Churchill |
Pro Or Hourly Wage Earner? UBS Pays $89 Million to Settle Overtime Suits The settlement resolves claims that UBS incorrectly classified financial advisors and financial advisor trainees as exempt from overtime pay under federal and U.S. state laws. |
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. |
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. |
On Wall Street
June 1, 2010
Lee Conrad |
Betting on McCann Can Bob McCann and his renewal team restore UBS Wealth Management Americas? |
On Wall Street
July 1, 2009
Helen Kearney |
RBC Swooping in on UBS Advisors A string of veteran UBS advisors have made the jump to RBC Wealth Management over the past eight months. |
Registered Rep.
November 29, 2011
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS: Going Mobile with an FA App Financial advisors at UBS Wealth Management Americas are about to go more mobile - in a far-reaching pilot program that enables them to use an extensive array of UBS tools and other applications. |
Registered Rep.
January 1, 2007
Halah Touryalai |
Spitzer Defends UBS Brokers--No, Seriously Eliot Spitzer announced in mid-December that he thinks the $89 million overtime settlement that UBS agreed to in February 2006 is unfairly distributed, and he's asking a Northern California District Court to reject the proposed settlement amount. |
Registered Rep.
March 15, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
McCann Is the Man at UBS; Name Change to PaineWebber? The much-anticipated revival plan for UBS Wealth Management Americas will cap off a series of recent organizational changes garnering support from an important constituency: advisors at the beleaguered brokerage. |
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. |
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. |
Registered Rep.
November 9, 2010
Kristen French |
UBS Hires Three From Morgan Stanley As Recruiting Wars Intensify The war for talent is as fierce as ever, with some firms like UBS issuing a press release every time they make a big new hire. |
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.
February 6, 2010
John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Reorganizes Wealth Management Division (update) The Wealth Management Americas division is aiming to bolster the Swiss bank's brokerage. |
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.
September 6, 2006
John Churchill |
UBS Buys Another Brokerage With the ink still drying on its deal to purchase Piper Jaffray's brokerage arm, Swiss firm UBS announced today it will now buy Cleveland-based McDonald Investments, KeyCorp's brokerage unit. |
Financial Planning
August 1, 2013
Charles Paikert |
What the Rich Need Now Three new reports suggest the wealth management industry still needs improvement - and hint at a slowdown after recent growth. |
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.
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.
March 17, 2008
John Churchill |
UBS Says U.S. Wealth Management Not For Sale But top executives did meet to discuss strategy, including the prospect of a 5- to 10-percent cut in jobs, according to published reports. |
