We focus on the one activity we excel at – wealth management for private and institutional clients. Our energy and resources are dedicated to constantly expanding our expertise in this field. We are proud to attract and foster outstanding talent among our teams, in order to offer a service of the highest calibre.
All the divisions of our Bank serve each other. Our integrated business model ensures an exceptionally efficient and agile spread of skills and knowledge. Our business is built on a strong commitment to sharing our know-how and exchanging ideas with our clients.
We build solutions around your views and your needs. Our aim is to provide constant, in-depth guidance, and to empower you to directly influence your wealth management strategies. This approach enables us to deliver the bespoke investment solutions upon which our success is founded.
Fast-moving and visionary
UBP has grown, in just a few decades, to be recognised among our peers as a stable, reliable and successful private bank with an unmatched talent for entrepreneurship and vision.
Today, UBP stands among the leaders in the field of wealth management in Switzerland. It continues to expand both in its home market and abroad, consistently stepping up its private banking activities and reinforcing its asset management capabilities. In recent years, the Bank has acquired, among others, the international private banking divisions of Royal Bank of Scotland (Coutts) and Lloyds, as well as the Swiss subsidiary of the ABN AMRO group.
With the acquisition of Coutts, UBP has made its mark in Asia. We have also set up a leading asset management team in China, UBP Investment Management (Shanghai) Ltd. And more recently, we opened a new Hainan office in China – UBP Private Fund Management (Hainan) Co. Ltd.
In addition, the Bank has joined forces with several leading companies around the globe – such as Partners Group, SEB, Bell Asset Management and Noah – to be able to offer specific expertise to our clients.
Solid and well-established
With assets under management of CHF 140 billion as at the end of December 2023 and a professional, global workforce of around 2,094 people, Union Bancaire Privée is a major player in Switzerland’s wealth-management industry.
Headquartered in Geneva, the Bank has over twenty locations in key economic and financial hubs worldwide, enabling it to combine global expertise with local know-how.
The Bank sets itself apart with its financial robustness, which is thanks to careful risk management and conservative balance sheet oversight. With a Tier 1 ratio of 28.9% – well above the regulatory requirements –, UBP ranks among the most strongly capitalised Swiss banks.
In January 2019 the rating agency Moody’s assigned UBP a long-term deposit rating of Aa2 with stable outlook. This high-grade rating is an endorsement of UBP’s ongoing solidity.
Agile and robust
The size and the structure of our organisation enable prompt and fully-informed decision-making. We continuously demonstrate our ability to act quickly and seize opportunities, and this agility benefits not only our clients, but also serves our own vision for growth.
We manage our business carefully, keeping the Bank financially sound. The strategic and far-sighted choices we make allow us to keep growing, as we firmly believe in the future of our wealth management business, regardless of any dramatic shifts in the financial industry.
It is this strength, coupled with our agility, that puts us ahead of our competitors.
