UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms, serving a discerning global client base. As an organization, it combines financial strength with a global culture that embraces change. As an integrated firm, UBS creates added value for clients by drawing on the combined resources and expertise of all its businesses.
UBS is the world's leading wealth management business, a global investment banking and securities firm with a strong institutional and corporate client franchise, a key asset manager and, with roughly a quarter of the Swiss lending market, the market leader in Swiss corporate and individual client banking.
On 31 March 2006, UBS employed more than 70,000 people. With headquarters in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, UBS operates in over 50 countries and from all major international centers. UBS is managed through three Business Groups and its Corporate Center, each of which is described below.
Businesses:
Wealth management
With more than 140 years of experience, our global wealth management business provides a comprehensive range of products and services individually tailored for wealthy clients around the world. With roughly 11,600 client advisors and more than CHF 1.8 trillion in invested assets, the business consistently delivers high-quality, individually tailored solutions through a global network of 110 offices in Switzerland and 67 offices worldwide. In the US, it is one of the top wealth managers. Business Banking Switzerland is the market leader in Switzerland, providing a complete set of banking and securities services for individual and corporate clients. It also has relationships institutional investors, public entities and foundations based in Switzerland, as well as 3,000 financial institutions worldwide.
Investment banking and securities
UBS's Investment Bank is one of the world's leading firms in the investment banking and securities business, providing a full spectrum of services to institutional and corporate clients, governments and financial intermediaries. Its salespeople, research analysts and investment bankers provide products and services to the world's key institutional investors, intermediaries, banks, insurance companies, corporations, sovereign governments, supranational organizations and private investors. For both its own corporate and institutional clients and the individual clients of other parts of UBS, the Investment Bank provides product innovation, research and advice, and comprehensive access to the world's capital markets.
Global Asset management
The Global Asset Management business is one of the world's leading asset managers, providing traditional and alternative investment solutions to financial intermediaries and institutional investors. The breadth, depth and scope of its varied investment capabilities enable it to offer innovative solutions in nearly every asset class. Invested assets totaled CHF 801 billion on 31 March 2006, making it one of the largest global institutional asset managers, the second largest mutual fund manager in Europe, and the largest mutual fund manager in Switzerland.
Swiss corporate and individual clients
UBS is the leading bank for Swiss corporate and individual clients. It serves around 2.6 million individual clients through more than 3 million accounts, mortgages and other financial relationships. It also offers comprehensive banking and securities services for 136,500 corporations, institutional investors, public entities and foundations as well as 3,000 financial institutions worldwide. With a total loan book of over CHF 140 billion, UBS leads the Swiss lending and retail mortgage markets.
Technology:
With over 8000 technologists globally we run one of the globe's largest IT organizations, whose innovative, flexible and technologically cutting-edge solutions make a significant contribution towards the success of the bank.
In an environment of strategic growth, always-on business and customers looking for self-service, IT is fundamental to the firm's ability to serve it's clients. Industry leading technology platforms, new levels of client connectivity, and a tight knit fabric of security, help connect an expanding client base to an evolving portfolio of products.
