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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.
The Motley Fool November 25, 2011 Shubh Datta	Another Investment Bank Chops and Changes UBS looks to shed its investment banking business.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Navjot Kaur	UBS Joins the Long Cost-Cutting Line UBS cuts 3,500 jobs to stay profitable.
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. 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.
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. June 6, 2008 John Churchill	UBS Considers Divulging Client Names In Tax Evasion Case The Swiss bank may divulge the names of 20,000 of its wealthy US clients as one of its top private bankers faces a Florida court.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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 6, 2009 John Churchill	IRS Circling, UBS Bans Travel for Some Advisors The United States' ongoing hunt for tax cheats will be putting a crimp in some clients' quarterly portfolio reviews.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
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.
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. 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. 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.
On Wall Street October 1, 2009 Helen Kearney	UBS Weighs Options as the Suddenly Smallest Wirehouse No one can deny it's been a tough year for UBS's wealth management business in the U.S.
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 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.
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.
Registered Rep. April 19, 2010 John Aidan Byrne	EXCLUSIVE: Is UBS Turning Around? Brokerage CEO Says Yes. UBS Wealth Management Americas, scrambling to stem the outflow of client assets, is seeing signs of hope.
Registered Rep. November 17, 2009 John Aidan Byrne	McCann Sets Ambitious Targets for UBS The chief executive of UBS' Wealth Management Americas also reiterated his profitability target of 15 to 20 percent for the division, and set a goal of CHF1 billion for annualized pre-tax profit.
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.
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. 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.
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 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.
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 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!
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Laura Cohn	Swiss Banks: Paradise Lost Tougher rules are just part of what's making this haven less appealing.
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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
Registered Rep. September 4, 2013 Diana Britton	What Is Wealthy? Fifty percent of investors define wealth as having no financial constraints on what they do, while only 16 percent say it's about surpassing a certain asset threshold.