February 2022

Over the Lunar New Year, we at UBS Asset Management wanted to do more than visit our relatives and chomp down on tasty Chinese New Year treats. We wanted to tackle the food insecurity issues in our communities.

Late last year, we set up UBS-AM x Hunger Hurts and raised S$6,000 in three weeks for this initiative.

Over a Friday afternoon, 20 of us headed down to two neighbourhoods. We gave out 360 packs of cooked food to families in Lengkok Bahru, while 75 families living at King George Avenue received grocery essentials from us.

Social engagement and giving back to the community are important to UBS Asset Management and forms a core tenant of our corporate culture. Here, they aren’t just buzzwords – it’s who we are.

September 2021

This year’s Mid-Autumn festival was a special one here at UBS Asset Management. Instead of our usual business tradition of gifting mooncakes, we chose instead to support the less privileged amongst us, both young and old.

For the second year running, we worked with Beyond Social Services to support youths from lower-income families. This time, we contributed to The Typing Warriors Program, an initiative to help children and youths gain some digital skills.

We also collaborated with Care Corner Senior Services to support our elderly community. We donated blood pressure monitors, anti-slip mats and a body BMI scale to a Care Corner centre in Toa Payoh, Singapore.

Many of us from the wider UBS Group also celebrated mid-autumn festival with the Care Corner Seniors virtually.

UBS Asset Management “walks the talk” on social engagement

Social engagement is important to us and is part our corporate culture. It also guides the way we invest.

For close to 10 years now, we’ve talked to companies about their environment, social and governance (ESG) policies and consider ESG factors in how we evaluate companies.

April 2021

It was an early morning video call for 15 of us at UBS Asset Management Singapore, and business dealings were not on anyone’s mind.

We were excited to be volunteering for a video coaching session with Halogen Foundation Singapore (Halogen), to help secondary school students with their business plans.

This initiative is part of Halogen’s Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) program. It helps empower youths from underprivileged communities by cultivating an entrepreneurial mindset and build business skills.

During the two-hour 1-1 coaching session, we gave students pointers to fine-tune their business concepts and discussed how to size up their target audience.

Social engagement is important to UBS-AM and is part our corporate culture. It also guides the way we invest.

For close to 10 years now, we’ve talked to companies about their environment, social and governance (ESG) policies and consider ESG factors in how we evaluate companies.

About Halogen NFTE Program

The NFTE Program offer students the access to skills relevant to the real world, motivating them to stay in school and understand the importance of education. Through this, they will learn to recognize opportunities for success and be equipped with presentation and problem-solving skills. This can help them in their education and contribute to the economy by either running their own businesses or joining the workforce.

August - December 2020

We asked our readers and investors to take part in two Charity polls to raise funds for Beyond Social Services, a charity that helps young people from less privileged backgrounds break away from poverty through education and development programmes.

But more than a straight out cash donation, we backed up Beyond Social Services when they told us that they needed sponsors for a Back to School project.

So we sponsored 400 “Back to School” packs for low-income kids in Singapore’s Henderson neighbourhood with SGD 30 bookshop and SGD 20 shoe vouchers to help them start the new school year.

UBS Asset Management “walks the talk” on social engagement

Social engagement is important to us and is part our corporate culture. It also guides the way we invest.

For close to 10 years now, we’ve talked to companies about their environment, social and governance (ESG) policies and consider ESG factors in how we evaluate companies.