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One North Wacker, UBS Tower is a 50-story (199 m (653 ft)) skyscraper at One North Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago, Illinois. The tower was built from 1999 to 2002 to accommodate Swiss investment bank UBS AG 's Chicago headquarters.
UBS PaineWebber logo in use from 2001 until 2003 when the use of the Paine Webber brand was dropped UBS Warburg was the brand used for the Investment Banking division of UBS from 1999 to 2003. On 3 November 2000, UBS merged with Paine Webber , an American stock brokerage and asset management firm led by chairman and CEO Donald Marron .
77 West Wacker Drive, [1] previously the United Building, is an American office building in the Loop, Chicago. Finished in 1992, the building rises to a height of 668 ft (204 m) with around 944,000 square feet (87,700 m 2) of interior space. [2] The building, with 50 floors, was designed by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura. [3]
UBS also entered the life insurance business in 1993 establishing UBS Life. UBS formed a joint venture with Swiss Life in 1995, known as UBS Swiss Life. UBS took a 25% ownership position in Swiss Life in exchange for a 50% share in the joint venture. [5] UBS entered the 1990s clearly the largest and most conservative of the three large Swiss Banks.
Brinson Partners (later known as UBS Brinson) was an asset management firm focused on providing access for U.S. institutions to global markets. [1] The firm was founded by noted investor Gary P. Brinson in the 1980s and established as an independent firm in 1989.
UBS cuts jobs in the Asia-Pacific region, in order to reduce costs and restructure businesses.
Initially the business was given the divisional name "UBS PaineWebber" but in 2003 the 123-year-old name Paine Webber disappeared when it was renamed "UBS Wealth Management USA." [ 52 ] The bank would grow considerably in the 2000s, building a large investment banking franchise to compete with the major US and European bulge bracket firms.
Ron Huberman, CEO of Chicago Public Schools, previously president of the Chicago Transit Authority; Jörg Kukies, German Minister of Finance (2024-) Christina Liu (MBA, PhD), former finance minister of Taiwan (2012) Jack Markell, 1985, Governor of Delaware; Peter G. Peterson, (1972–73) U.S. Secretary of Commerce; chairman of The Blackstone Group