UBS Associate Director, Client Advisor reviews

3.4

63% would recommend to a friend

(231 total reviews)
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Sergio P. Ermotti

80% approve of CEO

49% positive business outlook

Associate Director, Client Advisor employees have rated UBS with 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 231 company reviews on Glassdoor. This indicates that most Associate Director, Client Advisor professionals have a good working experience there. UBS is rated in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) by Associate Director, Client Advisor professionals compared to other employers within the Finanzen industry (3.7 stars).

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2.0
Aug 19, 2009
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Pros

paid training while you get your license

Cons

They encourage you to partner with senior advisors when you go after accounts. Then you have to split the revenue 50%. So you do 100% of the work for 50% of the money. No one will help you, mentor you, accompany you on a call, or answer questions without claiming 50% of the revenue for life. Also, they dump accounts on you that generate no revenue - they sold them something years ago, it pays nothing, but the client calls you all the time. And new advisors get zero support or help from admin/clerical people, yet they don't teach you how to do any of it yourself. You spend all your time chasing down admin stuff, while the clerks are outside the building smoking cigarettes. Management does not care about the new people, only the older big producers, and helping them get 50% of everything you do, so they don't leave and go to another firm.

4.0
Apr 6, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

UBS is THE premiere wealth management shop on the street. It brings a good brand name and pedigree when marketing for clients. With the amalgamtion of so many prestigeous names, Dillon read, warburg, paine webber, O'Connor you have a wide range of experiences and expertises to cull from for when pitching business to clients. The Global asset management arm i think is second to noe, at least among tied Asset Managers. The compensation is also pretty much on par

Cons

The swiss are very risk averse, so you might not get much IPOs if thats your bag. Paine Webber systems are pretty much archaic. too many bolt on applications. Need some more robust.

2.0
Feb 23, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

UBS is a global brand with a huge reach, unfortunately this repuatation has been tainted by a number of issues. The tax issue and the fact that what was once one of the world's greatest banks has been in so many debacles is unthinkable ranging from auction rate securities to the fact that it's spent so much money on recruiting that it couldn't even sell the brokerage unit if it wanted to. It's pretty ridiculous if you think about it.

Cons

Management is inflexible and cannot adapt to the changing conditions. Upper management is even worse resulting in the current state of the company

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