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Phillips & Drew

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250:. Between April 1987 and February 1988, UBS was required to spend as much as £115 million to shore up Phillips & Drew. Phillips & Drew unit returned to profitability in 1992 after years of losses. Due to its performance issues, the Phillips & Drew name was discontinued by 1992 and the business was renamed UBS Limited. However, the Phillips & Drew name was retained in the asset management business that became known as Phillips & Drew Fund Management. 279: 245:
UBS merged their UBS Securities arm with P&D and transferred operations from the stock exchange building, and 100 Moorgate to new premises in the Broadgate development. UBS initially had issues integrating Phillips & Drew, which it had renamed UBS Phillips & Drew (UBS P&D). The firm
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The firm remained relatively small with business dependent upon individual clients until the arrival of Sidney Perry, who joined the firm as a partner in 1936. Perry, would rise to the leadership of the firm over the next decade and by the beginning of the 1950s, he was running Phillips & Drew.
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In 1905, the firm assumed the Phillips & Drew name with the arrival of Geoffrey Harvey Drew, Dick's brother, as a new partner and the retirement of Phillips (though he rejoined the firm in 1907). Until the late 1940s, the Drew family continued to hold a controlling position within the firm.
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acquired a 29.9% minority interest in Phillips & Drew and two years later announced an acquisition of the firm. At the time of the acquisition, Phillips & Drew, with 60 partners and 593 staff, was the leading dealer of
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lost £15 million when a rush of orders overwhelmed the firm’s settlement system in 1987. Then the bank lost £48 million as a result of Philips & Drew positions in the
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Under Perry's leadership, the firm shifted its focus from retail brokerage business toward
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and other fixed income securities in the U.K. The firm was also a leading asset manager.
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Also, under Perry, the firm began to establish a reputation as a leading source of
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In 1885, George Allen Phillips became a member of the
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Financial services
Union Bank of Switzerland
Swiss Bank Corporation
UBS Global Asset Management
London, England
Stock brokerage
Mutual funds
Equity research
stockbroking
City of London
England
Union Bank of Switzerland
Swiss Bank Corporation
UBS AG
London Stock Exchange
institutional investors
gilts
equity research
Union Bank of Switzerland
UBS
gilts
convertible bonds
October 1987 stock market crash
Union Bank of Switzerland
"UBS 150 Years of Banking"


UBS AG
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