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International Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition
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International Corporate Governance, 3rd Edition

by Thomas Clarke
August 2023
Intermediate to advanced
818 pages
28h 27m
English
Routledge
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CASE STUDY 3UBS

DOI: 10.4324/9781003181118-13

UBS AG is regarded as the world’s largest manager of private wealth assets with nearly $2 trillion in assets under management in 2014. Founded in 1856 and headquartered in Switzerland, the bank was a monument of the conservative European banking tradition over generations. The bank specializes in private wealth management, asset management, and investment banking. However in search of further global growth and higher returns UBS began to invest massively in derivatives and other high risk securities, emulating the more aggressive Wall Street investment banks. As a result UBS experienced among the greatest losses of any financial institution in the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and from that point ...

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