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Profile
Dr. Simon Smiles is a Chief Investment Officer UHNW at UBS Asset Management Switzerland AG.
In this capacity, he and his team formulate investment strategy, themes, and trades for UBS’s Ultra High Net Worth clients.
He is UBS's youngest Group Managing Director and is also responsible for derivatives, hedge fund, private markets, sustainable, and short term trading investment strategies, leads UBS WM’s impact investing efforts, contributes to the wider UBS WM House View, hosts the monthly UBS Investor Forum, and sits on UBS’s Global Investment Committee.
Prior to moving to Zurich, Dr. Smiles worked for UBS Investment Bank in Hong Kong as Head of Asian Thematic Research.
Before this, he ran UBS's media and internet equity research team in Australia and taught economics and finance at the University of Sydney and UTS.
He received a Ph.D.
in Economics from the Australian National University and first class honors in both Economics and Finance from the University of Sydney.
Former positions of Simon Smiles
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UBS Asset Management Switzerland AG
 UBS Asset Management Switzerland AG Investment ManagersFinance UBS Switzerland offers investment capabilities across all major traditional and alternative asset classes. They develop an investment strategy for their clients based on each client's financial goals, time horizon and risk tolerance. | Head-Equity Investments | 30/04/2020 |
UBS AG (Investment Management)
 UBS AG (Investment Management) Investment ManagersFinance UBS-IM is an active, risk-controlled and indexed manager which offers investment capabilities across all major asset classes including equity, fixed-income, currency, passive/ETFs, hedge funds and real estate/private equity and multi-asset. The firm's central investment approach for core equities, fixed-income and global investment solutions is value-oriented and based on rigorous fundamental asset class, market, currency and security analysis, with a global perspective. In addition, some UBS-IM investment teams follow a growth-oriented approach. They employ a proprietary risk management system, which is central to their investment management process. | Head-Equity Investments | 16/06/2019 |
UBS Securities (Asia) Ltd.
 UBS Securities (Asia) Ltd. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
UBS Securities Australia Ltd.
 UBS Securities Australia Ltd. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services | Analyst-Equity | - |
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UBS AG (Investment Management)
UBS AG (Investment Management) Investment ManagersFinance UBS-IM is an active, risk-controlled and indexed manager which offers investment capabilities across all major asset classes including equity, fixed-income, currency, passive/ETFs, hedge funds and real estate/private equity and multi-asset. The firm's central investment approach for core equities, fixed-income and global investment solutions is value-oriented and based on rigorous fundamental asset class, market, currency and security analysis, with a global perspective. In addition, some UBS-IM investment teams follow a growth-oriented approach. They employ a proprietary risk management system, which is central to their investment management process. | Finance |
UBS Securities Australia Ltd.
UBS Securities Australia Ltd. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services | Finance |
UBS Securities (Asia) Ltd.
UBS Securities (Asia) Ltd. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Provides brokerage services | Finance |
UBS Asset Management Switzerland AG
UBS Asset Management Switzerland AG Investment ManagersFinance UBS Switzerland offers investment capabilities across all major traditional and alternative asset classes. They develop an investment strategy for their clients based on each client's financial goals, time horizon and risk tolerance. | Finance |
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