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Myer named top Australian family office

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
... providing the highest level of service to our clients," the Myer Family Company said in a statement on its website. UBS Wealth Management was named best global private bank, ahead of Credit Suisse. JPMorgan was third, while Citi moved up to fourth place ...

Credit to escape impending bond rout

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... investors should avoid the worst of the impact of rising interest rates by holding bonds with higher yields, according to UBS Wealth Management global chief investment officer Alexander Friedman. With interest rates at record lows across virtually all ...

UBS investment head departs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
UBS Wealth Management head of investments Benjamin Pedley is set to leave the company after less than six months in the role. Hired in January, Pedley was responsible for delivering the group's global investment ideas to local clients. Prior to joining ...

EQT appoints interim CIO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013
... chief investment officer pending the outcome of EQT's takeover offer for The Trust Company. Boubouras joins EQT from UBS Wealth Management where he was head of investment strategy and consulting and responsible for research and investments across all ...

ASIC lines up Macquarie Private

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... relation to the 2008 collapse of Storm Financial. The regulator has been toughening its stance against wealth providers. UBS Wealth Management entered into an enforceable undertaking with ASIC last year following a failure in process that saw a cohort ...

Australian Unity expands investment team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... executive and ex-Westpac Institutional banker part of the team. Jody Fitzgerald joins as investment specialist from UBS Wealth Management where she was head of investment and product research. Previously with Hastings Funds Management as director of ...

Macquarie Private expands adviser team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... client advisers, Danny Chiu, formerly head of margin FX at MF Global and Simon Vanstone, previously a director with UBS Wealth Management. In Adelaide, Michael Sanderson has joined Macquarie as senior private wealth manager from Morgan Stanley Smith ...

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... income investors in 2012, according to both AMP's senior investment strategist and portfolio manager Nader Naeimi and UBS Wealth Management's head of investment strategy George Boubouras. However, a lack of issuance in the corporate bond market is additionally ...

UBS wealth mgmt to review compliance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
ASIC has signed an enforceable undertaking (EU) from UBS Wealth Management Australia Ltd to review its compliance culture and frameworks and fix past compliance failures. The fund manager didn't provide statements of advice to 764 retail clients invested ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... Yuan to appreciate would be a mistake, according to George Boubouras, head of investments, strategy and consulting at UBS Wealth Management. Politicians need to be "cognizant of the China story," Boubouris said, because "durable domestic demand in China ...