UBS Wealth Management

Compensation related to financial advisor recruiting fell 22% for the second quarter.

While the business is producing steady profits, the lender rejigged financial targets this year after investors argued Ermotti should do more to improve returns after the shares languished.

There’s no obvious reason to row back from the bank's strategic commitment to focus on wealth management while keeping a leash on the investment bank

The regional broker-dealer has stepped up its expansion this year.

As turnaround plans at peers such as Credit Suisse gather speed, some investors are asking whether UBS is doing enough to sustain its lead.

Wirehouse policy changes are bearing fruit and leaving advisor career options in flux.

Here’s what the two seemingly contradictory trends mean for advisors.

Susan Elolampi will be company's latest high-level hire following a dozen appointments in recent months.

Gains by rivals expose independent advisors' vulnerability, says United Capital's Matt Brinker.

"We're not being judged on what other banks are doing. We're being compared to Amazon and Google," says Kraleigh Woodford, managing director at UBS WM USA.

Apps aimed at the very wealthy have lagged behind those for other groups, but there's interest in developing them, especially ones that track total net worth.

Gauthier Vincent, Principal and Wealth Management Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP, Deborah Waters, Global Head of Private Bank Operations and Technology, Citi, Kraleigh Woodford, Managing Director Head of Digital Client Experience, UBS WM USA

Clients may be compelled to sell their shares as nearly 90% of the products have experienced losses this year.

The only other fund of its kind has $269 million in assets, a figure that’s ballooned roughly 1,700% this year.

The No. 1 IBD’s top recruiting executive announced his retirement after the firm disclosed some mixed recent results.

The firm scaled back its investment bank after the financial crisis to reduce risk and focus on its large wealth-management business.

The smallest of UBS’s operating divisions is said to have eliminated at least 100 positions in areas including distribution over recent months.

Wirehouses have made some recruiting mistakes in recent years. Meanwhile some aspects of corporate strategy are being done right in certain pockets of the industry. Danny Sarch offers his insight as we continue the dialogue from our Recruiters Roundtable.

If wirehouses decided to adopt a salary-plus-bonus compensation model, how would they do it?

The regional firm's latest hires include several veteran financial advisors.