Updated
Updated · Wealth Management · Aug 25
Cresset Adds 16-Person UBS Team With $4 Billion, Opening First Boca Raton Office
Updated
Updated · Wealth Management · Aug 25

Cresset Adds 16-Person UBS Team With $4 Billion, Opening First Boca Raton Office

3 articles · Updated · Wealth Management · Aug 25

Summary

  • $4 billion in client assets moved to Cresset with a 16-person UBS team led by Michael Bober and Ed Ventrice, giving the firm its first Boca Raton office.
  • The group spent 11 years at UBS and advises corporate executives, business owners, high-net-worth families, foundations, endowments and professional athletes, adding institutional consulting and succession-planning capabilities.
  • Cresset, which oversees more than $250 billion in client assets, has been recruiting aggressively in wealth management, including July hires from Lazard Wealth with $1.1 billion and a February hire from Baker Street Advisors with a $2 billion book.
  • The Boca Raton expansion deepens Cresset's South Florida presence as the employee-owned firm, founded in 2017, continues to build scale through advisor lift-outs and acquisitions.

Insights

Will UBS clients actually follow their advisors to Cresset's new Boca Raton hub, or stick with the banking giant?
Why are elite $4 billion advisory teams abandoning traditional mega-banks for specialized multi-family offices like Cresset?