Dynamic solutions for your changing world

Driven by our core values of collaboration, integrity, independence and passion, and supported by a world leader in institutional services and private wealth management, we’ve built a diverse team across experience, gender, race and background. Whether you’re a retirement plan sponsor or hedge fund manager, a family office or industry executive, Flagship Financial Partners has the insight and resources to help you pursue your most important goals and address the challenges within your financial world.

Positioned to deliver all of UBS
Our 28 team members, a collaboration of talent, bring complementary knowledge of wealth, investing, planning and philanthropy to institutional and private clients. Accessing global solutions and expertise across UBS, from Private Wealth Management to the UBS Investment Bank has earned us a valued seat at the tables of many multigenerational families, business owners, executives, corporations and nonprofits as they manage their financial world.

Committed to diversity
We’ve intentionally built a team as diverse as the clients we serve. Whether from race, gender or culture, we believe multiple perspectives, experiences and passions give us a greater understanding of your needs. That’s how we provide relevant insight, no matter what your goals or the challenges you face.

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Individuals and families

As a UBS Private Wealth Management team, we can address your most sophisticated priorities and challenges. Our rigorous wealth management approach supports all of our planning, investment management, asset allocation, risk management and retirement and estate planning strategies. Yet, we are skilled in providing advice that goes well beyond your investment portfolio and will provide you with the insights from our firm’s 150-year heritage as a global leader in wealth management.

Endowments and foundations

Retirement plan sponsors

Today it is more challenging than ever to manage the growing complexity of your plan and the needs and goals of your participants. As a Senior Institutional Consulting team specializing in retirement plans for corporations, nonprofits, municipalities and foundations, we can work with you to address each strategic decision—from structure and design to fiduciary responsibilities to employee education. Count on us to help your executives and employees confidentially prepare to get the most from your company’s incentive and benefit programs.

Alternative asset managers

Given their unique needs and regulatory requirements, our team is able to offer advice specifically for hedge fund and private equity executives and their employees. We offer highly tailored solutions that can align with your firm’s investments and risk parameters. Expect a thorough understanding of alternative investing, prudent process and strict adherence to proper policies and procedures.

Let's move forward. Together.

Wealth management for individuals and families

We think strategically about you and your family. Our rigorous and disciplined wealth management process allows us to be constantly focused on your priorities and actively engage in the markets. We help simplify your financial life by offering holistic advisory services that include specialized private wealth planning, investment management, asset allocation, risk management, retirement and estate planning strategies, and wealth transfer strategies.

Endowments and foundations

Confidence to pursue your mission

Put our investment experience and acumen to work for your organization’s long-term vision
Pursue your organization’s mission supported by a disciplined consulting process backed by the resources and heritage of one of the world’s leading wealth managers. The UBS Institutional Consulting Group offers customized solutions centered on your organization’s unique needs.

You can benefit from discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services, insightful research and personalized service. Based on a deep understanding of what you want to accomplish, our highly credentialed consultants can provide the advice you need to prudently manage your assets and pursue your organization’s long-term investment goals.

Why work with us

Right from the start, we focus on learning everything we can about your organization. To support you in your fiduciary role, we define and document our fiduciary role, always with high-touch, responsive service.

Investment policy planning assistance

Assess current situation
Risk/reward profile
Investment policy development and review

Asset allocation modeling

Asset allocation analysis
Overall portfolio design
Active vs. passive management

Investment manager identification

Investment manager and strategy: search, identification, implementation, cost analysis

Ongoing consulting and measurement

In-depth portfolio and manager review and analysis
Strategic and tactical allocation advice
Committee education

What you can expect

We bring a personalized approach to your investment needs supported by a deep knowledge of your organization and its unique goals.

Advice and experience
Deep institutional knowledge and expertise adapted to the unique mission and culture of each organization

Tailored solutions
Comprehensive, customized solutions developed with the experience of highly trained consultants

Personalized service
High-touch service from people committed to getting it right for you as part of an ongoing, collaborative relationship

Who we serve

Our rigorous 5 step process for Institutional Consultanting

Your organization’s mission comes with its rewards. But it also comes with a set of time-consuming challenges, including fiduciary responsibilities. UBS Institutional Consultants are here to help. Our institutional consultants have the institutional knowledge, global resources and investment solutions to help your organization pursue its financial goals and advance your philanthropic mission.

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Advice and advocacy for retirement plan sponsors

3 pillars to help you build a stronger plan and employee confidence

With longer life expectancies, greater employee responsibility for retirement savings and increased governance over fees and compliant investment processes, it’s more challenging than ever to manage the growing complexity of your plan and the needs and goals of your participants. That’s why customized advice is more essential.

Plan design and structure

Whether you’re a billion dollar company or just starting up, we look beyond standard designs to customize a plan to your requirements and the needs of your employees.

Tailored design and provisions based on our in-depth understanding of the operations and objectives of your plan.

End to end or à la carte.
We can implement our plan recommendations via a complete retirement plan solution or on an à la carte basis.

Fiduciary governance and investment consulting

As advocates, we help you understand and meet your fiduciary obligations to your plan and employees.

Investment policy statement (IPS).
We help you develop a formal policy that reflects your objectives and risk requirements, while setting parameters for investment selection.

Independent investment reviews.
We prepare an investment review for each committee meeting to help ensure alignment with your IPS.

Manager search and selection.
Focused on a disciplined selection process and skilled professionals to implement the process.

Prudent decision-making process.
Working with UBS acting as an ERISA fiduciary, our dedicated, nine-person investment committee meets biweekly to discuss investment selection, allocation and manager research.

Rigorous due diligence.
Ongoing screening and vetting of portfolio managers nationwide.

Participant engagement and education

Communication and education among employees and sponsors helps drive better overall plan participation and confidence in the program. Greater financial literacy helps participants make more informed planning decisions.

Participant communication planning provides you with the following year’s educational goals while crafting a work schedule to help accomplish these goals.

Retirement preparation an education workshops. We have developed a highly rated education meeting by using a participatory format and humor to engage participant, especially those with five years or less to retirement with very specific needs and concerns.

Executive wealth planning services. We provide personalized planning advice tailored to address complex executive wealth.

Alternative asset management

Tailored solutions for hedge funds and private equity firms

Given their unique needs and regulatory requirements, our team is able to offer advice specifically for hedge fund and private equity executives and their employees. We offer highly tailored solutions that can align with their firm’s investments and risk parameters.

You can be confident in our thorough understanding of alternative investing, prudent process and strict adherence to proper policies and procedures.

End-to-end retirement plan solutions

Our team has developed a solution to allow alternative investment firms to offer their own fund(s) as an investment option in their 401k plan, while maximizing the benefit to employees.

Plan design Through thoughtful plan design, partners can carve out a smaller group of employees to participate in the cash balance plan. Using our proposed structure, employees can save up to six figures, pre-tax, per year (depending on their age).

Our solution will allow all participants to invest in your proprietary fund, regardless of Qualified Purchaser or Accredited Investor status.

By utilizing a managed account or trustee directed fund our plan design satisfies the QP and AI investor standards, as well as the non-discrimination rules established by the Department of Labor.

Our plan design allows your employees to maximize their pre-tax contributions to the 401k Plan ($56,000 for 2019). Pairing the 401k Plan with a Cash Balance Defined Benefit Plan will allow a curated group of partners and employees to defer additional pretax savings.

Investments

Utilizing our custom solution allows all plan participants to invest in your firms proprietary fund (3c7 or other structure)*
We will build a core line up of funds to compliment your private investment option
UBS will act as a 3(21) co-fiduciary to the core lineup of funds

Employee education

Custom designed education strategy tailored to fit employee demographics and geography
We will conduct onsite enrollment meetings and employee education meetings/seminars.
UBS Financial Wellness program access-tools and resources to help participants with all aspects of their financial lives.

Hedge Fund and Private Equity Lending

Creating Liquidity Solutions
As a Portfolio Manager and/or employee of a Hedge Fund, you most likely have invested a significant portion of your wealth into the various hedge funds offered at your fund of employment. As you continue to build your wealth, it may be advantageous for you to borrow against your Limited Partner (LP) interests. Our Wealth Management lending platform may be able to help you meet your needs.

Benefits of borrowing against a Hedge Fund interest
Tapping your eligible Hedge Funds interests provides you the new liquidity you need- which may be used for a number of purposes including but not limited to:

Reinvest into your existing Hedge Fund LP interests
Manage fund expenses/payroll
Working capital
Cash flow management
Private investments/portfolio diversification
Real estate purchases
Lifestyle purchases
Tax Payments

Unlock new sources of liquidity
The UBS Private Equity Funds Lending Program is designed to give you access to liquidity sources that you may not have previously considered. Although private equity interests are not typically thought of as a liquidity source, they may actually offer an opportunity for leverage.

Private Equity Funds Lending Program
The UBS Private Equity Funds Lending Program is designed to give you access to liquidity sources that you may not have previously considered.

Credit facilities to individual Limited Partners: The UBS Private Equity Fund(s) Lending Program is designed to give you access to liquidity sources that you may not have previously considered. Although Private equity interests are rarely though not typically thought of as a source of liquidity, they may but actually offer an opportunity for leverage.
Facilities provided to funds that are secured by capital call commitments: Subscription lines (or capital call lending facilities) are borrowing facilities for general partners to use when they need to act quickly, or if they would rather finance an investment using a lending facility, instead of requesting funds from the limited partners. The collateral for the loans are the unfunded commitments of the limited partners.
A programmatic offering allowing senior employees of private equity firms to leverage their limited partnership interests in their firm's private equity funds: Private equity firms often use employee financing programs as retention tools. It also acts as a way to increase employee investment in the firm's proprietary funds which helps to incentivize employees to perform.

Tailored wealth management services

We offer highly customized solutions that meet your employees needs and align with your firm’s investments and risk parameters.

Hedge fund advisory services*
Credit and leverage
Cash and liquidity
Risk management
Wealth planning and transfer
UBS Global Family Office

^{*Available through UBS Alternative and Quantitative Investments LLC. For professional clients or sophisticated investors only. Funds are offered through UBS Asset Management (U.S.) Inc./UBS Financial Services Inc. (a member of FINRA and SIPC). UBS Alternative and Quantitative Investments LLC (an investment adviser registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission) and UBS Financial Services Inc./UBS Asset Management (U.S.) Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries of UBS AG.}

A leader in wealth management

Backed by the strength of our parent company, UBS AG

^$6 trn

UBS Group invested assets
As of 12/31/2024

51 countries

Our global footprint

Global leader

UBS is a leading and truly global wealth manager

Dynamic solutions for your changing world

Private Wealth Management

Individuals and families

Endowments and foundations

Retirement plan sponsors

Alternative asset managers

Let's move forward. Together.

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Wealth management for individuals and families

Endowments and foundations

Why work with us

What you can expect

Who we serve

Our rigorous 5 step process for Institutional Consultanting

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Advice and advocacy for retirement plan sponsors

Plan design and structure

Fiduciary governance and investment consulting

Participant engagement and education

Alternative asset management

End-to-end retirement plan solutions

Hedge Fund and Private Equity Lending

Tailored wealth management services

A leader in wealth management

Backed by the strength of our parent company, UBS AG

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