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Union Bancaire Privée’s net profit rises by 24.6% to CHF 138.1 million

Union Bancaire Privée reports net profit of CHF 223.8 million, up 6.4% year on year.

Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) announced today that it has further strengthened its emerging market (EM) fixed income capabilities by hiring three seasoned experts and developing its EM fixed income product range into a comprehensive offering embedding responsible investment principles.

Union Bancaire Privée posts net profit of CHF 110.8 million for the first half of 2023

Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) announced today that it has signed a distribution agreement with Securis Investment Partners LLP (Securis), a leading investment manager of Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS).

Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) announced today that it has further expanded its fixed income offering with the launch, in December 2022, of a new high-income strategy.

Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) announced today that it has acquired 100% of the shares issued by Angel Japan Asset Management Limited (Angel Japan AM), a Tokyo-based independent investment advisor specialised in the Japanese small-cap equities space.

UBP and RMG have sourced and co-advised a consortium of institutional investors and families on a transaction involving buildings leased to Hôpital de La Tour as part of a sale and leaseback agreement.

UBP has onboarded a new credit alternative strategy on its alternative UCITS platform.

Since 2022, certain strategies have been putting in solid performances and their outlooks are excellent. We talk to UBP’s Kier Boley.

With a rise in popularity of alternative investments in recent years, UBP is tapping the private market space with a mixture of specialist in-house expertise and a highly selective approach to third-party manager solutions.

Hubbis met with Eric Morin recently to learn more about UBP’s current momentum in Southeast Asia, the bank’s key focus areas, his strategic priorities, and his vision for the future of private banking in the region.

Structured products have changed a great deal, after a long period in which they were treated with a degree of scepticism by investors, and as a result of tighter regulations. Although the number of clients using them remains very (too) small, they are likely to play a growing role in asset allocation strategies.

The CEO of wealth management bank Union Bancaire Privée is focused on growth through acquisitions.

US national government debt-to-GDP reached 120% in 2023, recapturing the level seen following years of wartime spending in 1945.

Strong Q1 economic data from the US manufacturing, housing and employment sectors, combined with inflation of between 3.5–4% since mid-2023, have caused markets not to only price out the six rate cuts they had priced in up until the start of 2024, but, more recently, to also begin to question whether the Fed might forego rate cuts entirely in 2024.

As 2023’s concentrated market rally is extending into 2024, equity investors are worried about a potential consolidation or pullback.

There are signs that sterling is set to embark on an upward trend after several years in the doldrums.