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Article: UBS Keeps Busy with New Hires; Among other things, the appointments underline commitment to investment banking.(Personnel File)(William Ortner)(Maurice Allen joins Ropes and Gray)(Stephen Antczak joins Cantor Fitzgerald L.P.)
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- Investment Dealers' Digest
- Article date:
- October 30, 2009
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Byline: Editorial Staff
UBS got plenty of attention last week when it announced it had hired Bank of America's Robert McCann to lead its U.S. wealth management operation. But from a strategic perspective, the more interesting story may have been its capture of William Ortner from Structured Investment Management.
The appointment of Ortner - who will become a managing director in UBS' equity capital markets group and co-head of its structured equity capital markets team for the Americas - came after a recent series of other hirings. Nearly a dozen managing directors in the U.S. have been hired for retail companies, health-care, FIG and energy. (Ortner ...