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Obama re-election to boost healthcare and banking stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... debate. Birkhold commented: "If there can be no agreement, we will be looking at four more years of uncertainty." Meanwhile, UBS's George Boubouas says that even a partial resolution on the fiscal cliff would be supportive of risk assets moving towards ...

Euro endurance is lesser of two evils

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
The euro will survive because the financial and social cost of failure is too great, according to UBS's David McMahon. The seemingly insurmountable level of debt in the eurozone remains arguably the single biggest concerns for global investors but McMahon ...

Aging and deleveraging impact long-term growth: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... ongoing process of debt deleveraging pose the biggest challenges to investors over the coming years, according to a report by UBS. While cyclical factors tend to dominate day-to-day market movements, according to the asset manager investors with a multi-year ...

Final hour fiscal cliff verdict will be reached: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... US fiscal cliff crisis is a temporary loss of confidence in the markets and a slight dent to economic growth, according to UBS. That is according to a vote at the global asset manager's Cyclical Market Forum, which meets quarterly to discuss on the potential ...

UBS to cut up to 10 000 jobs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
Swiss bank UBS AG could cut as many as 10 000 jobs after announcing a $AUD 2.25 billion net profit loss on Tuesday. As part of a cost-cutting following the result, Switzerland's biggest bank said that it "is likely to have a headcount of around 54 000" ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... rebounded on Tuesday as investors cheered positive company earnings and reacted to news of thousands of job cuts at Swiss bank UBS. London's FTSE 100 index of top companies closed up 0.95 per cent to 5,849.9 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 gained ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... markets rebounded as investors cheered positive company earnings and reacted to news of thousands of job cuts at Swiss bank UBS, despite a lull in trading caused by the monster US storm Sandy. At 0825 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index ...

UBS Global AM picked for three netwealth funds

STAFF REPORTER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
Platform provider netwealth has chosen UBS Global Asset Management to manage investments for three of its Global Specialist Funds. Ben Heap, head of UBS Global Asset Management, Australia and New Zealand, said, "netwealth has invested in our Tactical ...

NZ Superannuation completes five new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2012
... allocation, has been appointed as chief investment advisor and head of strategic tilting. Williams joined the Guardians in 2008 from UBS Global Asset Management in London where he was global head of asset allocation and a managing director in global ...

ASIC lines up Macquarie Private

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... in 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 ...