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Private Wealth Management

Where do your passions lie? We address every dimension of your life and your goals—investments, business and legacy—to develop a plan that’s truly personalized for you. Then we’ll help you organize your financial life into three strategies: Liquidity—to help provide cash flow for short-term expenses, Longevity—for longer-term needs and Legacy—for needs that go beyond your own.

UBS Wealth Way is an approach incorporating Liquidity. Longevity. Legacy. strategies, that UBS Financial Services Inc. and our Financial Advisors can use to assist clients in exploring and pursuing their wealth management needs and goals over different time frames. This approach is not a promise or guarantee that wealth, or any financial results, can or will be achieved. All investments involve the risk of loss, including the risk of loss of the entire investment.

Defining your priorities. Pursuing what matters.

Our experience and structured planning process drives a comprehensive financial plan and customized investment strategies. Depending on where you are in your life and the priorities that matter most, our planning conversations may focus on liquidity management, your cash flow needs, asset replacement solutions such as insurance, estate planning strategies, or tax and legal structures such as trusts and philanthropic vehicles.

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Wealth transfer across generations

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Estate planning strategies

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Creating a legacy for your family’s future

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Navigating opportunities across your enterprise

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Philanthropy

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Planning for a changing tax landscape

A focus on personalized access and service

Working with diverse clients with specific needs, our team sees it as our top responsibility to understand each aspect of your unique and often complicated financial life.

A focus on personalized access and service

Tailored family office services

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Tailored family office services

Smart planning for executives

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Smart planning for executives

Advanced planning

Advanced planning

Advanced planning

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Family offices are as different as the families they serve—one size does not fit all. Our team brings decades of experience to helping navigate financial, business and family interests as you seek to align your investment management and planning.

To address the wide-ranging needs family offices face every day, we serve as your single point of contact, helping to coordinate resources and expertise from across the firm, including the Investment Bank and Asset Management divisions.

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We can help map out a plan for your wealth that takes into account your goals, needs and plans for the future. Backed by the resources of the broader firm, our team can help you make smart financial decisions, address your evolving liquidity needs and develop shrewd tax strategies so that you can move forward with confidence.

Whether you are tackling the timing of executing stock options or selling shares, our knowledge and experience can free you to focus on your future.

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Advanced planning

We understand that planning is an integral part of a well thought out financial roadmap. We can help guide you through the process, working with you to craft a plan that aligns with your priorities and challenges, while allowing to you to take advantage of unexpected opportunities and life changes.

As part of the planning process, we can also draw on network of professionals, as well as the highly specialized resources of UBS’s Advanced Planning Group.

Pursuing your goals together

Our mission is to provide quality strategies customized to your needs. Our goal is to be your primary source of financial advice. To this end, we concentrate our efforts on developing long-term relationships through a commitment to quality client service.

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    William Hand

    Director

    Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

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    William Hand, CFA® is a Senior Wealth Strategy Associate in the Private Wealth Management division of UBS Financial Services. Before joining UBS, William was a Vice President in the Global Wealth Management division at Stifel Financial Corporation. William joined Stifel as part of its 2015 acquisition of Barclays Wealth and Investment Management in the Americas, where he was a Vice President and Portfolio Analyst in the Private Client Group for four years.

    William has over 25 years of experience at several top tier investment banks and an asset management firm, with experience in research, asset allocation, investment management, alternative investments, capital markets, and institutional sales. Prior to joining the firm, William was an Associate Research Analyst at Macquarie Group, and an Associate Director at Bear Stearns & Co. where he covered Technology stocks in the Equity Research division. Prior to Bear Stearns, he was an Associate in Equity Research at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He started his career at Scudder Kemper Investments as a Research Associate supporting multiple Portfolio Managers in the Technology Fund.

    William graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in History. He was awarded Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation in September 2010.

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          William Hand
          299 Park Avenue,New York,NY,10171
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          Avery Melville

          Senior Registered Client Associate

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          Avery Melville is a Registered Client Service Associate joining us from Stifel. She joined Stifel in 2021 after working for a Registered Investment Advisory firm in Boston. Avery combines her strengths in relationship building, due diligence and problem solving skills to provide day-to-day support to clients and the team. 

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                avery.melville@ubs.com
                Avery Melville
                299 Park Avenue,New York,NY,10171

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