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Additionally, the UBS Group AG disclosed shareholders registered in their share register with 3% or more of shares issued. As of 30 September 2017, these are Chase Nominees Ltd, DTC (Cede & Co.) and Nortrust Nominees Ltd with 10.32%, 6.63% and 4.04% of total share capital respectively.
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.
UBS only wanted Credit Suisse if the price was low, and if Swiss authorities indemnified UBS from any Credit Suisse regulatory violations. [15] [16] On the morning of 19 March, UBS made an offer of 0.25 Swiss francs ($0.27) per share, valuing Credit Suisse at around $1 billion, but the price outraged the Mideast investors. SNB urged Credit ...
GAM was founded as "Global Asset Management" in 1983 by Gilbert de Botton, [4] a pioneer of the "open architecture" asset management model. [5] In 1999, it was acquired by UBS.
The UBS 100 Index is a Swiss share index launched in April 1987. It tracks the 100 Swiss companies with the largest market capitalizations that are listed on the SIX Swiss stock exchange . In 2022, the UBS 100 Index covered 98% of the publicly traded shares of Swiss companies, measured by free-float market capitalization.
PaineWebber & Co. was an American investment bank and stock brokerage firm that was acquired by the Swiss bank UBS in 2000. The company was founded in 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts, by William A. Paine and Wallace G. Webber.
The combined UBS logo incorporated UBS's name with SBC's "three keys" symbol. On December 8, 1997, Union Bank of Switzerland and SBC announced an all-stock merger. At the time of the merger, Union Bank of Switzerland and Swiss Bank Corporation were the second and third largest banks in Switzerland, respectively, both trailing Credit Suisse . [ 37 ]
Peter A. Wuffli (born 26 October 1957) is a Swiss businessman who was appointed president and chief executive officer of UBS AG in December 2001 after having been chief executive of UBS Asset Management and the company's chief financial officer.