16.09.2025
Gold moves to new all-time highs
In September, gold rose to new all-time highs, approaching USD 3,700 per oz. The upward move reflected several factors.
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Once you have determined your investment approach, we will provide you with access to markets, products and investment themes while proactively engaging with you on the latest market updates and investment opportunities.
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Our range of structured products is an attractive alternative to traditional investments and caters for many different risk profiles.
Our specialised team provides a broad range of pay-offs tailored to your clients’ risk appetite, diversification requirements and return expectations.
Depending on the structured product’s complexity, we are able to efficiently translate an investment idea into an investable product in just a few hours or a few days.
A click-and-trade platform is also available for a swifter selection and execution of the product.
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An AMC is a structured product which offers investors a simple and cost-effective way of participating in the performance of a wide range of asset classes through a single and synthetic strategy basket or tailor-made index without having to buy the underlying assets individually.
With AMCs, UBP offers external asset managers the ability to externalise the operation, administration and tradability of an investment strategy so that they can focus on their real added value: asset allocation management and client relationships.
In addition, UBP can provide external asset managers with access to the CREAM platform, a single, state-of-the-art platform for centralised and secure access to all certificates. CREAM is an easy-to-use tool which provides various portfolio views and key figures, rebalancing capabilities and access to certificate documents and performance reports.
Traditional and alternative investment funds
Through you, your clients can draw on our investment professionals’ extensive expertise to tap into the full potential of global financial markets.
Every year our cutting-edge know-how earns us awards from independent research bodies. These distinctions attest to our ability – and that of our managers and our funds – to combine agility and innovation in our quest for performance.
We offer a broad range of long-only and alternative funds with most of our strategies managed internally.
Private Markets
The Private Markets Group (PMG) is an exclusive UBP team dedicated to professional investors; the team identifies, analyses and selects transactions providing clients with unique investment opportunities. PMG helps those clients diversify their overall portfolio allocation beyond traditional instruments by using tangible assets generally only reserved for institutional investors.
Wealth Planning
On request, we can analyse your clients’ wealth structure with our highly experienced in-house wealth planning team to help you pinpoint risk areas and identify wealth planning opportunities in line with your clients’ needs and objectives, such as dedicated funds and life insurance.
The team
A dedicated EAM team of over 70 professionals providing services across all our booking centres.
From right to left
- Pierre-Emile Schifferli (Head of EAM Geneva)
- Patrizia Colombini (Head of EAM Zurich & Lugano)
- Frédéric Toselli (Global Head of EAM)
- Juan Alvarez (Deputy Global Head of EAM)
- Anja Karcher (Head of EAM Basel)
- Christophe Cantala (Head of EAM International)
15.09.2025
UBP Weekly View - All eyes on central bank meetings
Equities advanced over the week on expectations of a first Fed rate cut on 17 September. Investors will scrutinise the Fed’s commentary for guidance on further potential cuts in October and December, moves which have largely been priced in by the markets. Policy meetings are also scheduled at the Bank of Canada (BoC), the Bank of England (BoE), and the Norges Bank, with the European Central Bank (ECB) having decided last week to leave its key rate unchanged at 2%.
12.09.2025
India: Steadfast amid rising geopolitical challenges
Trade tensions with the United States, marked by 50% tariffs on Indian exports, have dampened sentiment. However, despite trade-related uncertainties, the growth outlook has been revised upwards, reflecting India’s strong long-term potential.
09.09.2025
UBP House View - September 2025
The Fed now appears to prioritise labour market stability over inflation risks, prompting us to reshape our investment strategy and overall asset allocation.
08.09.2025
UBP Weekly View - Soft US labour data raise Fed rate cut expectations
Without further pressure from the White House, the Fed is set to cut rates in September. Markets are debating whether the move will be 25 or 50 basis points after weak payroll figures, though we continue to expect only a 25-bp cut given the persistent inflationary pressures. The prospect of lower rates has buoyed equities, while attention this week will turn to US inflation data for evidence of tariff-related effects.
08.09.2025
Towards a lower rate era
The start of autumn marks a turning point for the Federal Reserve; our rate outlook is shifting accordingly.
01.09.2025
UBP Weekly View - Nvidia disappoints, yet tech stocks advance
While President Trump is pressing for greater influence over the Fed in the pursuit of lower interest rates, US small caps continued to benefit from declining short-term US yields. Attention turned to Nvidia where strong Q2 earnings were eclipsed by underwhelming guidance and geopolitics impacting sales in China, sending the stock lower; even so, global technology equities outperformed. This week, the focus is set to shift to key US macro indicators, namely employment data.
25.08.2025
UBP Weekly View - Markets rally after Jackson Hole symposium
With Fed chairman Jerome Powell opening the door to a rate cut in September, last week’s Jackson Hole symposium reinforced our forecast of two reductions this year. Global equities closed on a positive note, buoyed by the policy easing. However, the impact of tariffs must be fully assessed over the coming weeks.
18.08.2025
UBP Weekly View - US equities scale new peaks
The latest US inflation data confirm that price pressures are set to trend higher in the coming months. Nevertheless, rate cuts remain on the table given the slowdown in the labour market. As earnings season winds down after a solid set of results, market attention will shift to GDP developments and leading indicators, as well as to the Fed’s annual Jackson Hole meeting on Friday.