Your wealth encompasses so much more than your investments. The Bosphorus Wealth Management Group brings over two decades of experience creating personalized financial strategies for successful individuals, business leaders and families with complex financial needs.

From trust and estate planning with your attorney to consulting with your tax advisors, The Bosphorus Wealth Management Group collaborates closely with your trusted professionals to identify your priorities, concerns, and opportunities. Our holistic financial planning approach allows you to best pursue what matters most to you. We strive to organize, simplify, and quarterback your life by providing clarity around intricate financial issues. Backed by the vast resources of UBS Private Wealth Management, we deliver exceptional solutions, strategies, and advice that goes well beyond investing—securing your legacy now and into the future.

Bosphorus Wealth Management Group
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Making sense of significant wealth

We can help you plan for it.

When you have created or inherited significant wealth, you have opportunities to pursue bold and meaningful undertakings. How do you make decisions that will guide you successfully forward, no matter what your goal?

We believe it’s all about connection. That’s why we are prepared to take that journey with you today, tomorrow, every step of the way.

Our story

What’s in a name? In our case, it’s all about connection. Istanbul’s legendary Bosphorus Strait connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara, facilitating daily global trade between Europe and Asia. As a highly accredited team of advisors connecting you to experts and leaders throughout UBS, our name embodies the path to global opportunities. Read on for our individual bios.

  •  Michael J. O'Hara

    Michael J. O'Hara III, CFP, CPM

    Financial Advisor

    Senior Portfolio Manager

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    As head of the Bosphorus Wealth Management Group, Michael is a Financial Advisor, Senior Portfolio Manager and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional who brings almost twenty years of experience developing and implementing financial strategies focused on providing tailored wealth management advice and solutions based on each family’s specific needs.

    Utilizing a thorough due diligence process to understand family dynamics and complex wealth management needs, Michael structures holistic family wealth management plans to incorporate trust & estate planning strategies, retirement planning, insurance and credit management with asset allocation, investment selection, risk management and portfolio construction.

    Michael works with the team to construct, implement and monitor clients portfolio construction, investment selection, and asset allocation. Developing the group’s overall strategic investment vision and identifying new investments for clients. 

    As a result of Michael’s specialized training and experience, he has attained the highly regarded title of Senior Portfolio Manager.

    In addition, Michael heads the team’s fixed income research, strategy and implementation process. He focuses on providing in-depth fundamental and technical analysis across a broad spectrum of fixed income and equity investments. Michael works closely with market strategist, credit analysts and traders to discover and implement investment opportunities in the fixed income markets. This allows him to identify, construct and manage investment portfolios, on a fully discretionary basis.

    Before joining UBS, Michael was an Account Vice President at Morgan Stanley and an investment advisor at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Bear Stearns & Co. and RBC Dain Rauscher.

    Michael is a member of the Municipal Bond Club of New York and the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in the City of New York.

    Michael currently resides in Garden City, NY with his wife and three children.

    • Forbes America’s Top Wealth Management Teams (Private Wealth & High-Net Worth), 2024, 2025The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in November based on information from a 12 month period ending in March of the award year.
    • Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams, 2024, 2025The Forbes rating is compiled by Shook Research and awarded annually in January, based on information from a 12 month period ending March of the prior year.
    • UBS Wealth Management Director’s Council, 2024UBS Financial Services Inc. Councils are a distinction held by UBS Financial Advisors based on criteria including evaluation of compliance with firm rules, standards & policies and revenue. Council membership is not representative of any one client's experience and is not indicative of the advisor’s future performance.

    Eligibility is based on quantitative factors and is not necessarily related to the quality of the investment advice. For more information on third party rating methodologies, please visit ubs.com/us/en/designation-disclosures

    • Green Mountain College, B.S., business
    • Hofstra University, Frank G. Zarb School of Business, M.B.A. with distinction, management
    • Senior Portfolio Manager
    • CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER
    • Certified Portfolio Manager®
    • Series 7 and 66 securities licenses
    • Life and health insurance licenses
    299 Park Avenue
    New York, NY 10017
    michael.ohara@ubs.com
    Michael J. O'Hara III, CFP, CPM
    299 Park Avenue,New York,NY,10017

Advice for who you are

Everyone is different. So we offer focused advice specifically geared to where you want to go—and help you get there.

Advice for who you are

Business owners and entrepreneurs

Business owners and entrepreneurs

Family offices

Family offices

Tailored lending and cash management

Tailored lending and cash management

Our process takes you from the initial stages of exit or succession planning all the way through the transaction close. We develop a personalized strategy to help manage the proceeds and achieve your future financial goals—and life goals after you step away.

Partnering with resources across UBS, including the Global Family Office, the Family Office Services Group as well as our global investment bank, we integrate institutional-level business solutions for family offices. From family governance to business transition, we help bridge the generations to preserve wealth, seize opportunity and create continuity.

A leader in wealth management

Backed by the strength of our parent company, UBS AG

$6.9 trn

UBS Group invested assets
As of 10/29/2025

Financial strength

Driving confidence.
A-  Standard & Poor’s
A  Fitch
A3
  Moody’s


UBS AG, long-term senior secured debt rating. As of 03/31/2024

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