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Institutional Consultant 

The High Desert Institutional Consulting group brings over 100 years of experience in financial services, banking, and investment consulting. We focus on providing investment strategies customized to best meet an Institution’s situation and needs, regardless of complexity. Our team has built a successful practice by focusing on delivering strategies to corporate defined benefit and defined contribution plans, Taft Hartley plans, endowments, foundations, and Tribal groups.

UBS has selected a limited number of Financial Advisors to serve as specialized Institutional Consultants. Criteria requires an advanced financial certification such as holding a Certified Investment Management Analyst, (CIMA®) designation and extensive experience working with teams on accounts with than $20 million in assets.

I became a Financial Advisor in 1995 with Dean Witter and joined UBS in 2009 as a Senior Vice President-Wealth Management. I earned the UBS designation Wealth Advisor, and I am a Portfolio Manager in the Portfolio Management Program- providing
fiduciary and discretionary investment management and obtained industry respected designations of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER TM certificant, and CIMA®.

I graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1988 and was a Blackhawk Helicopter pilot, a Company Commander and served in the first Gulf War. I was also stationed in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down. I was previously on the board of St Martin's Hospitality Center, NM's largest provider of HOPE and services to the homeless and near homeless. I recently sat on the Advisory Board to the Alzheimer's Association of New Mexico, providing assistance to the Caregivers of those with Alzheimer’s. I currently sit on the investment committee of the New Mexico Foundation.

Institutional Consultant

Aaron is a Senior Vice President at UBS Financial Services, Inc. He serves a diverse clientele of successful business owners, professionals, high net worth families, and institutions in the endowment/foundation, nonprofit, Taft-Hartley, and retirement plan space. Of the 6,500 UBS advisors in the United States, Aaron is one of approximately 120 who have been admitted into the UBS Institutional Consulting Group, empowering Aaron to work with some of UBS' most sophisticated, largest, and complex clients as a fiduciary. Deepening his commitment to institutions, Aaron has also been named an Endowment and Foundation Consultant by UBS.

Prior to returning to Tucson and joining UBS, Aaron served as a senior aide on Capitol Hill for the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, and as a high-level advisor to key members of the Senate Banking Committee and House Financial Services Committee Including current Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer and Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney. At the age of 24, and during the heart of the global financial crisis, Aaron was named as the Press Secretary for the JEC, making him one of the youngest ever to serve in such a high-profile role on Capitol Hill.

Deeply passionate about community, Aaron serves as the Board Chair of Social Venture Partners Tucson, as the Vice Chair of Jewish Philanthropies for Southern Arizona, and as a supporter and investment consultant for numerous other non-profits. He's been named Young Jewish Man of the Year, as one of Southern Arizona's 40 under 40, and is also a Flynn Brown Fellow. He is married to Stephanie Bowers, a pediatric physical therapist, and together they have two children Ezra (7) and Alice (5).

Over the past 30 years, the market has seen both strong growth and times of volatility.  Anne Shivers has been at her clients' side through all of it. As a Registered Client Service Associate, she is fully licensed to transact business and administers all operations of the team with world class service skills. 

Anne is proud to be a native Tucsonan, attended Pima Community College and received her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Washington, cum laude. She enjoys being involved in the community, most recently with Southern Arizona Adaptive Sports and The Haven. Other community involvement has been with 91.3FM KXCI Community Radio as a volunteer DJ, and Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America. Anne is an avid runner and hiker and is ready so see more of the world with her husband Sam and their two college-age children Grace and Samuel.

Many different careers have brought me to the financial industry, where I've found a home helping our clients focus on their goals and what matters to them. 

My most recent prior experience was in the Insurance industry. Before that I owned and operated a retail Toy store in Albuquerque NM. I was a professional Lapidary in the jewelry industry. My creative work in the jewelry industry was showcased in multiple national magazines and books