Company Profile
UBS is a wealth manager and bank globally. Its business is organized into five segments: Global Wealth Management, Personal & Corporate Banking, Asset Management, Investment Bank, and Non-Core and Legacy.
The Global Wealth Management segment offers financial services, advice, and solutions. Its portfolio also includes investment management, estate planning, and corporate advice services, and wealth management and banking products and services to private wealth and institutional customers.
Its Personal & Corporate Banking segment provides banking, retirement, financing, investments, and strategic transactions to private, corporate, and institutional customers through its branch network and digital channels in Switzerland. The Asset Management segment offers diversified asset management services.
Its Investment Bank segment provides equities, foreign exchange, precious metals, research, advisory, and capital markets services to institutional, corporate, financial sponsor, and Global Wealth Management customers focused rates and credit platform, as well as lending products, such as securities-based lending, mortgages, structured products, and tailored solutions.
Its portfolio also includes collateralized lending residential and commercial real estate, primarily against securities, residential and commercial real estate, other real assets (such as ships and aircraft), private market and hedge fund interest, and unsecured lending. Founded in 1862 and headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, UBS was formerly known as UBS AG before rebranding in December 2014.