Innovative solutions designed to make a real impact Private Wealth Management

Your success is a reflection of your hard work, innovation and integrity. All qualities that we share. As Private Wealth Advisors and Family Office Consultants, we offer a comprehensive, collaborative approach to modern wealth management.

Our team recognizes that the complexity of your wealth demands strategic solutions that may come from both within and outside of UBS. This respect for your life and goals drives our commitment to serving all aspects of your financial world, whether directly or working with your family office.

We are often the first call our clients make. Driven, passionate and successful, they include multigenerational families, entrepreneurs, senior executives and family offices. We provide the access, perspective and the continuity our exceptional clients need to help them fully realize the life they envision, today and for generations to come.

Moster McCormick Norwood


phone

888-827-8469





address

UBS Tower
One North Wacker Drive
Suite 3300
Chicago, IL 60606




 

The value of Family Office Consultants

Jeffrey Moster, Christopher McCormick and Matthew Norwood are among a select group of Private Wealth Advisors who have earned the Family Office Consultant (FOC) business designation. Understanding the complexities of intergenerational wealth, FOCs undergo rigorous training to strengthen their industry knowledge so they can align specific needs to the full suite of UBS capabilities, managing the investment, business, passion and legacy needs their clients face.

 


Christopher McCormick has been recognized as an industry leader

  • Forbes Best-In-State Wealth Advisors, 2018, 2020
  • Forbes America's Top Next-Generation Wealth Advisor, 2017, 2018, 2019
  • UBS Top 35 Under 35, 2017, 2018, 2019

 


Our team

“Our team’s private wealth experience and access to global resources are designed to make a real impact in the lives of our clients, whether pursuing a new business venture, exploring a philanthropic passion or educating children about their future financial responsibilities.”

— Jeff Moster

Industry leadership with deep access to worldwide resources

Many families with significant wealth require a broad array of resources and services. As UBS Private Wealth Advisors, we have the training, focus and deep understanding of complex wealth and the families who create it, inherit it and pass it on. We offer a highly personalized experience that combines thoughtful advice, comprehensive wealth planning and concierge service.

Jeffrey Moster, CFA

Managing Director– Wealth Management
Private Wealth Advisor
Family Office Consultant

Jeff draws from his 20 years in the industry to navigate the complexity of today’s markets.

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Christopher McCormick

Senior Vice President– Wealth Management
Private Wealth Advisor
Family Office Consultant

Chris aligns our clients’ portfolios with the goals they seek to achieve while helping educate our clients how investment decisions tie back directly to their expressed views on risk.

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Matthew Norwood

Senior Vice President– Wealth Management
Private Wealth Advisor
Family Office Consultant

Matt consistently engages our clients on their business’s relationship to investment portfolios—whether that is to lack correlation to an ongoing operating business, or to understand the options and opportunities when monetizing a business.

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Working together with each generation of your family

What does it mean to be a steward of your family’s wealth? Your wealth opens the door to great opportunities but can also bring an unintended burden. We can help you build, execute and monitor a cohesive and comprehensive strategy for your whole family. Our relationships across UBS gives you access to the firm’s global resources, in areas ranging from advanced estate planning to portfolio and alternative investment management and philanthropy services.

Anthony Joseph Unruh III, CFA, CFP®

Financial Advisor

As a CFA® and CFP® professional, Tony leverages his investment and planning acumen to ensure client goals align with the appropriate investment philosophy.

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Chad Horetski

Senior Wealth Strategy Associate

Chad’s responsibilities on the team include investment research and implementation, managing the team’s discretionary portfolios, trading and leveraging the firm’s resources.

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A high-touch client experience

Communication and client service is at the core of our practice. Accessible and responsive, we touch on every aspect of your life, always striving to provide the utmost in personalized service. Our highly collaborative process helps to create a road map for pursuing your personal and financial goals.

Justina Nevel

Team Administrator

Justina draws on 20 years’ experience to lead team best practices, manage team operations and guide clients through complex reporting.

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Working together to help you pursue what matters most

Understanding your life, your wealth and what you want to accomplish is important to how we work together at UBS. We start with questions and a discussion that helps us focus on what’s really important to you.

Then, we can help you organize your financial life into three key dimensions: Liquidity—to help provide cash flow for short-term expenses, Longevity—for longer-term needs and Legacy—for needs that go beyond your own. Through the plan we create together, we can help you pursue what matters most today, tomorrow and for generations to come.

Liquidity

To help maintain your lifestyle

Longevity

To help improve your lifestyle

Legacy

To help improve the lives of others

Our clients

“Our clients’ goals often include wealth transfer for future generations. We can help you with maximizing your philanthropic impact, investment and borrowing management, survivorship concerns and tax strategies.”

— Christopher McCormick

Our team focuses on helping sophisticated clients like you to create and execute a comprehensive, multigenerational financial plan. We have the experience and the network to address the complexities of your advanced planning needs.

Exceptional families

Whether we are working with a family directly or serving their family office, we seamlessly integrate comprehensive wealth management with institutional-level investment solutions. Our team understands the dynamics of families working together to make important life decisions.

Working with the UBS Global Family Office and Family Advisory and Philanthropy Services groups, we can help bridge generations to offer advice on understanding the opportunities—and unintended burden—of inherited wealth, business transition, wealth transfer and family office governance. Collaborating with our Family Office Solutions Group, we bring the best of UBS insight and resources to our clients—helping them explore highly bespoke opportunities for growth, capital preservation and wealth transition.

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Comprehensive services of the Family Office Solutions Group


Entrepreneurs

We address the full cycle of business needs from strategic business financing to succession and exit strategies to post-liquidity planning. Whether you’re building capital and growing your business, selling your company, looking to manage existing liquid assets or transferring wealth, we have a honed process for helping you make smart, informed financial decisions.

Pre-exit planning
Whether planning a succession or a sale, we can help you develop a personalized strategy to maximize the value of this event so you can confidently pursue your life goals post-transaction.

Post-liquidity wealth management
Through our broad network and our innovative solutions, we can help address all areas of post-sale planning. Entrepreneurs trust our ability to help simplify their lives, freeing them to pursue future ventures.

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Preparing for a strategic exit


Executives

Working with company founders, public or private executives and business owners, we understand your drive for success. You require specific advice, specific to insider restrictions, tax implications and concentrated positions. Our team has the experience to provide specific guidance attuned to your overall wealth strategy.

  • Impact of stock options (incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options), restricted stock units, founders stock and qualified small business stock
  • Restricted stock sales,10b5-1, Section 16
  • Pre-IPO planning
  • Mergers and acquisitions planning
  • 401(k) benefit and compensation plan management
  • Income and estate tax planning and strategies
  • Concentrated stock management and diversification

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The ins and outs of stock options and equity compensation

Our access

“We provide access to a broad range of industry professionals accross the firm and around the world. By listening to your goals, we gain a deep understanding of your values and help make the complex clear.”

— Matt Norwood

Our team has the training, access and understanding of complex wealth and the individuals and families who create it, inherit it and pass it on. They count on us for comprehensive planning, banking and lending services, education planning and wealth transfer strategies.

Investment management

Institution-level solutions for individual clients

By listening and aligning with your objectives, we focus on asset allocation strategies that allow for sensible growth and help mitigate risk.

  • Multi-step investment process
  • Tailored asset allocation
  • Comprehensive cash flow management
  • Global private equity and private real estate
  • Management of illiquid, concentrated positions
  • Investment advisory responsibility

Estate planning and philanthropic strategies

Helping your wealth create a greater impact

We help ensure your assets are preserved and transferred to future generations and charitable organizations in a tax-efficient manner. Collaborating with your tax and legal specialists, we’ll help you pursue your specific estate planning strategies and charitable giving goals.

  • Pre-transaction planning
  • Tax liability minimization
  • Wealth transfer strategies and vehicles
  • Charitable giving strategies

Educating each generation

Shaping your multigenerational legacy

Attuned to helping you preserve the financial independence of your entire family, we can help structure a deliberate and meaningful family legacy and direct capital to reflect your values.

  • Access to exclusive UBS events, including the Young Successors Program and Philanthropy Forum
  • Business succession planning
  • Family foundation considerations, setup and supervision
  • Financing and advisory solutions for real estate, art collections, aircraft, hedge fund portfolios, securities-backed lending and more



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