UBS Deck
What was the significance of UBS's acquisition of PaineWebber in 2000?
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PaineWebber was one of the large US retail brokerage and wealth management houses, and UBS acquired it in 2000 to gain a major US wealth management footprint — a business UBS could not realistically…
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