Credit offering
Personalised wealth management services
Whatever your plans, priorities, nationality, residence, risk profile… our aim is to respond to your wealth management needs and achieve your financial goals.
Our Wealth Management services span a wide range of needs and are delivered in close collaboration with our Asset Management specialists. This ensures comprehensive coverage of needs, and gives private clients under management mandates access to solutions that are normally only available to institutional clients.
Regardless of your level of financial knowledge, we take the time to fully understand your needs to find the best solutions for you. We specialise in wealth management and the primary aim of our commitment to you is to preserve and grow your wealth over the long term.
Our e-Banking system gives you access to your portfolios from any device and a direct line to your relationship manager. Read on or get in touch to find out more.
UBP’s Managed Solutions
You set the rules. We invest on your behalf.
We work with you to understand your goals and build a personalised investment plan, and then we manage your wealth in alignment with your ambitions and constraints applying a diversified or specific investment approach.
Diversified returns
By choosing our multi-asset solutions, you opt for active or passive diversified management, based on the recommendations of our Global Investment Committee, which prioritises a rigorous investment process, liquidity, transparency and risk monitoring, drawing on all our skills.
Specific returns
For an even more bespoke approach, our experts in all asset classes use a variety of strategies to match your preferences and needs, by setting a clear focus on investment terms or by exploiting certain market conditions.
Sustainability preferences
We combine your sustainability preferences and financial goals across the entire range of solutions with different degrees of personalisation.
Advisory mandates
We advise. You decide.
If you prefer to take an active role in the management of your wealth based on investment advice provided by an expert, then UBP Advisory is the best solution for you.
We are able to support you and provide you with investment ideas across all major asset classes, a breadth of market analyses, and optimal asset allocation recommendations while all final investment decisions remain in your hands.
Investment solutions
You may have more focused requirements. No problem, our expertise is broad.
Our range of in-house funds complemented by strategic partnerships and carefully selected third-party products are designed to fit into a well balanced portfolio.
Our wealth management know-how is complemented by expertise in a wide array of asset classes: Equities – Fixed income – Alternative investments – Impact investing – Multi-asset
The team focuses on investment opportunities in sectors such as real-estate development, commercial aviation, new technologies, commodities and renewable energies.
We tailor investment proposals to our clients' risk tolerance, but also their areas of interest and regulatory constraints. UBP's well-connected global network enables us to offer clients an extensive array of opportunities in private equity, private debt, infrastructure, and real estate. See more.
An actively managed certificate (AMC) is a structured product which offers investors a simple and cost-effective way of participating in the performance of a wide range of asset classes through a strategy basket or tailor-made index without having to buy the underlying assets individually.
We use a proprietary state-of-the-art platform which provides portfolio views, key figures, rebalancing capabilities, certificate documents, and performance reports.
In the global forex market, keeping abreast of technical changes and fundamental movements as well as anticipating potential geopolitical events can be very time-consuming.
UBP has the expertise to help you develop and execute a personalised forex strategy and to make it an integral part of your broader asset allocation.
Our forex solutions encompass tactical and strategic trading ideas, passive and active hedging strategies, forex structuring services, and gold and precious physical metal strategies.
Responsible investment, which began as a niche some years ago, is now at the forefront of many of our clients’ minds and increasingly embedded in our approach.
At UBP we firmly believe that long-term risk-adjusted returns can be enhanced through ESG integration, active ownership (engagement and voting) and a focus on the impact our investments make.
e-Banking
Our e-Banking service has been developed for our clients as a completely secure way for you to
- Access your portfolios
- Make payments
- Authorise documents
- Keep up with UBP’s news
- Talk to your relationship manager
wherever you are, whenever you want and from any of your mobile devices.
UBP Geneva
Geneva is the seat from which Union Bancaire Privée (UBP) has been developing since 1969, to become one of the biggest family-owned private banks in the world. UBP’s headquarters, right in the centre of Geneva, are the largest of UBP’s sites worldwide. The head office is also one of the eleven booking centres the Group has spread across the world’s financial and economic hubs. Our experienced wealth management professionals working out of Geneva provide both private and institutional clients with high-quality, specialised services.
UBP Luxembourg
UBP has been active in Luxembourg since 1971 through its subsidiary Union Bancaire Privée (Europe) S.A. Over the years, Union Bancaire Privée (Europe) S.A. has steadily built up its presence through major acquisitions and solid organic growth to become one of the Top 10 Luxembourg private banks (in total assets). As the Group’s European hub, UBP Luxembourg is fully licensed to carry out its activities in the European Union, which allows our experts to serve our clients in each of the 27 Member States from our headquarters in Luxembourg.
UBP London
UBP’s London branch opened in 1991 and provides both asset and wealth management services. Located in the central area of Marylebone, UBP London employs over 130 staff (as at 31 December 2022).
UBP Singapore
UBP: A family-owned bank with a legacy of innovation and strong foothold in Asia
UBP Hong Kong
UBP: A family-owned bank with a legacy of innovation and strong foothold in Asia
UBP Monaco
Since it was created in 2014 the Monaco branch of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA, a Monaco- and French-regulated institution, has steadily built up its offering to become a leader in the Principality. We offer traditional banking products and solutions but stand out among our peers through a range of exclusive services.
UBP Zurich
The Zurich branch of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (UBP) is the second-largest office of the Group’s global network with CHF 22 billion in assets under management. At its prime Bahnhofstrasse 1 location, UBP Zurich employs over 230 staff (as at 31.12.2022) providing private banking and asset management services for private and institutional clients. UBP Zurich works closely with the Group’s fourteen investment offices across the globe.
UBP Portugal
Union Bancaire Privée (Europe) S.A. – Sucursal em Portugal (“UBP Lisbon”), a branch of the Luxembourg subsidiary of Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA (“UBP”) in Geneva, is located in the heart of Lisbon. It began commercial operations in January 2024 with the aim of offering its clients a more convenient, local service, and to provide immediate support for each client’s individual needs, along with local investment consultancy services.
13.11.2024
UBP House View - November 2024
Trump's return to the White House marks the start of a new era that is set to boost US-based companies while the wider global investment landscape continues to contract.
08.11.2024
Gold: still a shining investment
Since the beginning of the year, gold prices have risen by nearly 40%, outpacing every major developed market equity index – even the S&P 500.
06.11.2024
Trump’s Comeback: Implications for markets
With voting now completed across the continental United States, it is confirmed that Donald Trump is making a comeback to the White House.
04.11.2024
Infrastructure: The new, sought-after safe haven?
Infrastructure assets provide essential services to communities, facilitating the transport of people, data, and energy.
22.10.2024
The Swiss touch retains its value
Lately, several commentators have suggested that Switzerland’s dominance in global wealth management, particularly in Asia, is fading. But is this narrative accurate?
15.10.2024
Selective growth through uncompromising quality of service
At Union Bancaire Privée (UBP), External Asset Managers (EAMs) represent around CHF 20 billion in assets under management (AuM), and so the service and support it provides to EAMs is an important part of UBP’s business. We spoke about UBP’s EAM business in Switzerland with those that lead it.
14.10.2024
The potential influence of US elections on markets
As the US elections loom large on the horizon, investors are bracing for market turbulence.
11.10.2024
What the new rate-cutting cycle means for asset classes
Several central banks, including the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, and European Central Bank, have ushered in a new era of rate-cutting, signalling the end to their fight against inflation. But what does this easing cycle mean for asset classes?
10.10.2024
UBP House View - October 2024
The global economy is becoming more fragmented, creating a complex landscape for investors and policymakers. Geopolitical events, such as the US elections, the Ukraine-Russia war, and heightened tensions in the Middle East, are amplifying market uncertainties. In response, we have raised our conviction on gold from 3/5 to 4/5.