(Bloomberg) — UBS Group AG is reorganizing its international wealth administration arm within the first main transfer by its new leaders Rob Karofsky and Iqbal Khan, pursuing its long-standing purpose of bringing extra funding companies to its ultra-rich shopper base.
As a part of the transfer, UBS will create a brand new unit — dubbed GWM Options — that may deliver varied wealth choices below one roof, in accordance with a memo seen by Bloomberg Information.
Former Credit score Suisse wealth banker Yves-Alain Sommerhalder will lead the unit, which incorporates choices comparable to funding administration, lending, household and institutional wealth and different investments, the memo stated.
As a part of the push, Michael Camacho is becoming a member of UBS, the memo stated. The JPMorgan Chase & Co. veteran will lead wealth administration within the US and can begin in September.
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The organizational modifications come a few month since UBS introduced a brand new management construction. In Might, funding financial institution head Karofsky was appointed to run its US enterprise and collectively oversee wealth with Khan, who was the only head beforehand. Khan will relocate to Asia and was additionally made president of the Asia-Pacific area.
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Each bankers, who’re seen as potential successors to Chief Govt Officer Sergio Ermotti, are getting into new territory to increase their information of the general agency. Khan has spent most of his profession in wealth administration, whereas Karofsky has a markets background.
UBS is quickly progressing with the mixing of Credit score Suisse, which it took over final 12 months in a Swiss government-orchestrated rescue. A part of that features increase within the US.
The lender additionally determined to make Latin America a brand new enterprise unit led by Marcello Chilov, “recognizing its considerably elevated dimension and potential.”
Late final 12 months, activist investor Cevian Capital AB took a stake in UBS, betting the financial institution can use the takeover of Credit score Suisse to double its share value and safe its spot because the primary international wealth supervisor.
New Unit
UBS is trying to the brand new unit to present recent momentum to a mannequin each UBS and Credit score Suisse have lengthy pursued: Connecting their shopper base of rich households and people, typically entrepreneurs or firm homeowners, with funding banking recommendation and asset administration.
Sommerhalder, a Credit score Suisse veteran, will work out of New York and Zurich, steering a enterprise that “will deliver all shopper options right into a single assemble,” in accordance with the memo.
UBS is launching a brand new “division-agnostic” International Options enterprise to deepen its ties with restricted companions throughout the globe “to seize greater returns and diversify their portfolios.” The unit will mix the shelf of other single and multi asset managers of the financial institution’s wealth enterprise and asset administration.
The unified international banking unit might be led by Jason Hutchings with the purpose to originate extra wealth shoppers searching for funding banking recommendation, comparable to entrepreneurs promoting their firms. It would report into Sommerhalder and Javier Oficialdegui, the financial institution’s international funding banking head.
Extra Modifications:
- Jason Chandler will turn into chairman of GWM Americas
- Patrick Grob, the top of UGM, will relocate to APAC
- UGA, the options enterprise, might be led by Johannes Roth and Jerry Pascucci, reporting into Sommerhalder and asset administration Chief Aleksandar Ivanovic
