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Registered Rep. September 8, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
An Offer They Can't Refuse UBS is doing all it can to hold onto as many of the advisors at newly acquired Cleveland-based McDonald Investments as possible -- beginning with a retention package that will be hard to refuse.  |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
UBS Offers Hot Retention Bonus UBS is doing all it can to hold onto as many of the newly acquired Cleveland-based McDonald Investments advisors as possible -- beginning with a retention package that will be hard to refuse.  |
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. 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. 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.  |
Financial Advisor March 2012 |
UBS Reeling In Merrill Advisors The big four wirehouse firms are always trying to poach top talent from their rivals, but UBS Wealth Management seems to be doing a particularly job good job of late when it comes to snagging advisor teams from Bank of America/Merrill Lynch.  |
Registered Rep. April 11, 2006 John Churchill |
UBS Snaps Up Piper Jaffray's Brokerage Unit The Swiss banking giant UBS added the retail unit of Midwestern gem Piper Jaffray today to its wirehouse brokerage division for $500 million in cash and other considerations.  |
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. May 1, 2006 John Churchill |
UBS Bellies Up to the Acquisition Table With the cost of recruiting and training soaring, firms continue to turn to acquisitions. The recent purchase by UBS of Piper Jaffray's brokerage unit won't be the last as competition for clients and their assets continues to intensify.  |
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.  |
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. 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. 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. 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.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2010 Lee Conrad |
Betting on McCann Can Bob McCann and his renewal team restore UBS Wealth Management Americas?  |
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. 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. 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.  |
On Wall Street July 1, 2010 Lee Conrad |
Barclays Builds Its Beachhead In The U.S.-- But Can It Pick Up The Pace? There are lingering questions in some corners over whether Barclays Wealth can really make a go of it in the United States.  |
Registered Rep. September 22, 2011 John Aidan Byrne |
McCann Memo Aims to Reassure Jittery UBS Brokers In a strongly-worded memo this week to employees at UBS Wealth Management Americas, CEO Bob McCann assured them that matters are under control.  |
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. 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, 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. February 3, 2009 John Churchill |
Wachovia-UBS Hookup Rumored but Unlikely Here's a possible new twist in the changing financial services landscape: A report in the New York Post raises the possibility of a "joint venture" between the wealth management divisions of Wachovia Securities and UBS.  |
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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.  |
Registered Rep. March 30, 2010 John Aidan Byrne |
Waiting on McCann's Plan for UBS It won't be announced this week or next; instead UBS is eying an announcement in mid-April or later, people familiar with the matter told us.  |
Registered Rep. May 31, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Sizing Up the Street In the latest earnings cycle, here's how the wirehouses stacked up.  |
On Wall Street August 1, 2012 Mason Braswell |
Solid Business Models Key to Success in Difficult Economy The second quarter has just wrapped up. It's after the closing bell on the first Wednesday of what many analysts believe will be a tempestuous round of earnings announcements. But Ron Kruszewski, the president and chief executive officer of Stifel Nicolaus, is bullishly calm.  |
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. October 1, 2006 John Churchill |
Mission USA UBS, with a strong brand name among the wealthy in Europe and Asia, continues to try to stoke some brand awareness among the wealthy here in the U.S.  |
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.  |
On Wall Street January 1, 2010 |
The Hire Powers Speak Out Headhunters open up about hiring, entrepreneurial mindsets, and wirehouse business models.  |
On Wall Street November 1, 2010 Bill Willis |
The Treasure Within In an effort to compete for the high-net-worth segment of the retail market, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and UBS have formed separate divisions, which were developed to focus on the challenges unique to this wealthy group.  |
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.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2011 Lorie Konish |
Wells Fargo Creates New Regional Structure A new regional wealth management structure and continuing merger and acquisition buzz surrounding the firm could shift its role in the industry.  |
On Wall Street June 1, 2009 Helen Kearney |
Big Name Boutiques Flex Their Muscles For those wirehouse advisors who want something new, but don't quite have the nerve to go independent, these elite boutiques look mighty attractive.  |
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. June 10, 2010 John Aidan Byrne |
UBS Ran Gauntlet, Beats Merrill, Says Bob Mulholland "We are really the only major relevant firm that actually went into the 2008 and 2009 abyss and came out the same firm," Mulholland told Registered Rep.  |
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. April 18, 2012 Diana Britton |
Tiburon's Roame: Less of a Breakaway Trend, More of a `Broken-Away' Trend Whether you agree with him or not, Chip Roame, managing principal of Tiburon Strategic Advisors, is not afraid to tell you exactly how he sees it when it comes to the financial services industry.  |
Registered Rep. September 30, 2013 Megan Leonhardt |
Wirehouse Evolution Far from a dying model, the big brokerages are changing their game.  |