Deliver as one firm

In the US, we have combined the portfolio management and related execution resources from across Global Wealth Management and Asset Management within Asset Management. Alongside this, in January 2020, we introduced a new approach enabling Global Wealth Management clients to access selected SMA strategies in the Americas with no additional management fee for the clients. This transformative move allows our financial advisors to focus on delivering the best ideas, solutions and capabilities to our clients – regardless of where they originate in the firm – and positions UBS as an industry leader.

Personal & Corporate Banking initiates client asset shifts and client referrals to other business divisions to ensure that our clients are best served, based on their needs, and fosters growth by delivering the entire firm’s value proposition to our clients. For example, personal banking clients whose needs in terms of investing have become more complex are shifted to Global Wealth Management’s high-net-worth individuals and affluent segments, and corporate and institutional segment clients are referred to Asset Management for pension fund solutions or the Investment Bank for capital market and corporate transactions, so as to deliver the entire firm to our clients.

Our Global Family Office unit brings together the capabilities of Global Wealth Management, Asset Management and the Investment Bank to leverage growth opportunities and deliver holistic solutions. It provides customized, institutional-style services to wealthy families and individuals seeking access to, or advice on, capital market activities.

The Wealth Management Platform is shared between Global Wealth Management Switzerland & International and Personal & Corporate Banking in Switzerland. This platform can be navigated intuitively and supports strong advice capabilities across all channels, thus helping our clients to benefit from a broader universe of products and services, simplified onboarding and a better banking experience. In the US, our innovative partnership with Broadridge is aimed at revamping the technology used for our financial advisors’ workstations, thus improving their productivity.

We are continuing to develop a strategic partnership between Global Wealth Management and the Investment Bank that is focused on growth – in our ultra-high-net-worth, middle market institutions and public finance businesses – and identifying synergies across the supporting infrastructure. This important initiative includes creating a unified capital markets team, integrating risk management systems and simplifying our regional operating processes.

We have introduced a new Global Lending team: a cross-divisional group designed to serve the financing and lending needs of all UBS clients around the world. The team aims to provide a faster, simpler and more client-centric approach that establishes a single, global center of excellence that will look to strengthen UBS’s financing and lending capabilities in every region. It expands the UBS product offering to meet the needs of all our clients, whether individuals or families, professional family offices, corporations or large institutions. The team also aligns UBS’s best talent and resources by integrating Global Wealth Management and Investment Bank financing, lending and risk management experts in one team.