22.07.2024
First half-year results 2024
Union Bancaire Privée’s net profit rises by 24.6% to CHF 138.1 million
A comprehensive service
You and your clients have specific and varied needs. Our strategic capabilities and extensive range of investment solutions have been developed so that we can meet them.
Once you have determined your investment approach, we will provide you with access to markets, products and investment themes while proactively engaging with you on the latest market updates and investment opportunities.
You can draw on the full spectrum of our strategic capabilities:
Direct Access Client (DAC) Sales
A directly accessible team of sales traders, based in Geneva and Zurich, who:
- Identify your investment objectives and match them with the best-suited sales expert
- Give you direct access to the trading floor ensuring quick and efficient execution of trades
- Proactively share the Bank’s views, explain market moves, and highlight relevant news
- Provide tactical and timely ideas based on our forex, fixed income, structured product, equity and derivative convictions
Structured products
Our range of structured products is an attractive alternative to traditional investments and caters for many different risk profiles.
Our specialised team provides a broad range of pay-offs tailored to your clients’ risk appetite, diversification requirements and return expectations.
Depending on the structured product’s complexity, we are able to efficiently translate an investment idea into an investable product in just a few hours or a few days.
A click-and-trade platform is also available for a swifter selection and execution of the product.
Actively Managed Certificates
Access a wide range of asset classes through an actively managed certificate: a fully flexible and transparent investment vehicle designed for the demanding investor.
UBP offers investment managers access to the CREAM platform, a single, state-of-the-art platform for centralised and secure access to all certificates. CREAM is an easy-to-use tool which provides various portfolio views and key figures, rebalancing capabilities and access to certificate documents and performance reports.
Traditional and alternative investment funds
Through you, your clients can draw on our investment professionals’ extensive expertise to tap into the full potential of global financial markets.
Every year our cutting-edge know-how earns us awards from independent research bodies. These distinctions attest to our ability – and that of our managers and our funds – to combine agility and innovation in our quest for performance.
We offer a broad range of long-only and alternative funds with most of our strategies managed internally.
Private Markets
The Private Markets Group (PMG) is an exclusive UBP team dedicated to professional investors; the team identifies, analyses and selects transactions providing clients with unique investment opportunities. PMG helps those clients diversify their overall portfolio allocation beyond traditional instruments by using tangible assets generally only reserved for institutional investors.
Wealth Planning
On request, we can analyse your clients’ wealth structure with our highly experienced in-house wealth planning team to help you pinpoint risk areas and identify wealth planning opportunities in line with your clients’ needs and objectives, such as dedicated funds and life insurance.
The team
A EAM dedicated team of over 40 professionals servicing form Geneva, Zurich, Basel, and Lugano.
Team Head
Frédéric Toselli
12.07.2024
Sustainability: an increasingly important consideration for wealth management
In early 2023, Nicolas Barben was appointed UBP’s Group Head of ESG Solutions within the Wealth Management division. We spoke to him about the role of regulation, the evolution of client interest in sustainability, and the performance of sustainable solutions, as well as his top priorities.
10.07.2024
Finnish ex-premier addresses UBP clients
Our annual flagship conference “UBP Looks at Geopolitics” at the prestigious Widder Hotel in Zurich recently brought together nearly 130 clients, prospects, and UBP employees for an evening of dynamic dialogue. The anticipation was palpable as Adrian Künzi introduced the high-profile keynote speaker, Sanna Marin.
17.06.2024
2024 US elections comes into view
Our experts examine the tumultuous US election landscape and historical market behaviour during election years, as well as anticipate the fiscal challenges awaiting the next president amidst record-high US federal debt levels.
14.06.2024
UBP's Strategic Vision of Pure-Play Private Banking in Southeast Asia
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.
12.06.2024
Structured products: a strategic solution
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.
11.06.2024
“Forget unrestricted market access to Europe”
The CEO of wealth management bank Union Bancaire Privée is focused on growth through acquisitions.
05.06.2024
UBP House View - June 2024
Eased ECB policies will boost Europe's recovery. As US growth normalises, developed market economies should converge in the second half of the year, while recent regional market rallies have reinforced our confidence in the UK and Switzerland.
