Pros
1. UBS brand name, people assume you're a big-time financial advisor (but your not) 2. Young team, most people here are straight out of school in their early 20s so it's fun to work here if you're young and energetic. 3. Work/life balance: you work on an 8hr shift; no overtime. 4. A good place to start and get licensed if you have no financial background.
Cons
1. No Growth. The whole team basically handles small accounts or garbage accounts that '' real'' UBS advisors don't want. You don't own your own book and you can't get new clients on your own. The only clients you're allowed to service and do business with are the small/ garbage accounts mentioned earlier. 2. High turn over rate: Because of the first reason, turn over rate here is one of the highest in UBS. Not a lot of people work here for over two years. 3. NOT a finance job: Most financial advisors here have no finance background or basic knowledge of finance or economics. And that goes for most sales managers here as well. Because all they want you to do is to sell managed portfolios and nothing else (this is the only way you get paid). It's kind of ridiculous because how in the world a recent college grad with a non-finance related degree is going to help clients make some of the most important financial decisions? 4. Lack of diversity: 90% white male. No female or minority in management. Frat house environment, you have to be boys with your manager and drink the kool-aid to be promoted, personal performance doesn't really matter. Ladies thinking about working here? You will be one of the 5 female FAs working here among 50+ twenty-year-old guys. Just imagine that... 5. Nepotism: I don't think this is a big surprise for most banks, but this place takes it to a whole new level. You'll be working with a lot of senior management's kid here because of an inter-generation program they have, and these kids can do anything they want with no repercussion. They can miss their sales gaol and still take vacations to Europe. And at the end of the day, they will still get promoted ahead of everyone. I've personally seen these kids got promoted ahead of a team's number one performer and sales managers are afraid of confronting them. 6. Mediocre pay- base salary is 50k plus bonus, normally after 1.5 -2 years you'll get promoted to a more premium team earning 60k base. However, bonuses are taxed heavily so you're not putting that much in your pocket. For the amount of $ you're bringing in and products you sold, it's really not that much... 7. Low morale: morale used to be okay... after a lot of good managers left, morale is at its lowest. They also changed the way advisors get paid so it's harder to get your bonuses now. At a team meeting, they even asked to rank our morale from 1-10, and no one scored more than a 4.