Thoughtful solutions for your family’s future Private Wealth Management

The Vanden Heuvel Team Paul G. Vanden Heuvel, William Knight Blanchard Jr., Lisa Anne Siradas, Charlie Ponce

The Vanden Heuvel Team


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312-525-7613
888-827-8469



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855-817-4808





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



Our experienced team of wealth management professionals is dedicated to helping you and your family address the specific and uncommon opportunities that come with exceptional personal and business success. By understanding all aspects of your family’s financial world, we develop clear recommendations and implement customized solutions.

Why work with us?

  • We can help simplify your financial life with highly tailored, proactive and creative solutions
  • We provide direct access to the thought leadership and global resources at UBS to help educate, advise and support each generation of your family
  • We offer the comfort and confidence that comes from a team who truly cares about you

 

 

“We put ourselves at the center of the wheel, helping to coordinate our clients’ legal and tax advisors. The result is a higher level of service that brings together creative thinking, trustworthy advice and proactive solutions to help simplify our clients’ financial challenges.”

— Paul Vanden Heuvel


Planning for each generation

The lives of today’s wealthy families are complex. Your financial solutions shouldn’t be. We start each client engagement without preconceptions. We listen carefully, and offer a goals-based approach to planning, which enables us to address the specific challenges you face throughout life’s important personal and business milestones.

Working with your whole family
Our team helps you navigate the inter¬section of family, business, finances and legacy by building strategies that serve current generations and yet are flexible enough to meet the needs of future generations.

Educating the next generation
Will your children and grandchildren be prudent stewards of your family wealth? By offering financial education to each generation, we can help them develop the skills and tools that will allow them to understand and manage their family wealth.

A key focus on philanthropy
We’ll work with you and family members on a holistic philanthropic plan and a process to engage the next generation. Our advice addresses tax-efficient investment strategies, your current charitable goals and contributions and access to local organizations.


A virtual family office structure

Our teams services can help organize and manage all aspects of your financial world. We provide a dedicated framework to bridge the generations within a family in order to create continuity and deliver a structure that is centered on preserving wealth and creating opportunities.

Delivering concierge services
You will have access to special events, private banking, trust services, family member support, financial education and wealth transfer planning.

A family governance framework
A clearly-articulated, efficient family governance framework can help to focus investment decision-making, as well as family legacy and business leadership succession.

Ensuring confidentiality and privacy
For each family members, confidence in your financial professional is essential. With complete discretion, we help you protect your family’s interests and manage numerous risks.


Comprehensive wealth management

With direct access to the global resources and curated platform of UBS, our team offers timely perspectives, customized investment management solutions and a fully-integrated suite of financial services. We help to prepare each family member to become a prudent steward of your family's personal and financial legacy.

Discretionary portfolio management
With a focus on customized solutions, we can provide a variety of strategies that enable us to build portfolios that help match your objectives and risk preferences. Ongoing monitoring and review of your portfolio helps us track your investments against relevant benchmarks.

Prudent asset allocation
Through our comprehensive due diligence and planning process, we can determine your family’s goals and tolerance for risk. This approach allows us to craft an asset allocation that seeks to lower volatility while maintaining an opportunistic eye toward investments and changes in the market.

The benefits of UBS Private Wealth Management
UBS’s extensive history of working with affluent families provides our team with insights and understanding into the complexities of wealth. Should your needs require, we have established relationships with these select UBS partners:

  • UBS Investment Bank
  • UBS Private Bank
  • Advanced Planning Group
  • Portfolio Advisory Group
  • Third-party investment managers
  • Global Family Office


Aligning your estate and the causes you care about

When planning your estate or building your legacy, we can work with you and your tax and legal advisors to develop tax-advantaged solutions so that the people and causes that are important to you receive the greatest benefit.

Your estate
We help coordinate the design and implementation of your estate plan to ensure that you are taking advantage of all relevant gifting guidelines; business succession strategies; insurance, trust and philanthropic vehicles; and navigating successfully potentially complex tax issues.

Philanthropy
We can assess your current charitable goals and integrate philanthropy into your overall financial plan. We will work with you and your family members to effectively execute your philanthropic vision.

Safeguarding multigenerational wealth
When planning your estate or building your legacy, our team will work with you and family members to provide education on philanthropy for each generation.


Communication on a deeper level

By offering a high-touch, personalized service, our goal is to develop the kind of trust and efficiency that will help to simplify your financial life and build long-lasting relationships. Responsive and attentive, our team provides a flexible communication plan specific to your schedule.

We combine the boutique experience of a specialized team dedicated specifically to your needs with the global resources of one of the world’s largest wealth management firms.

Count on us to be:

Proactive– by understanding all aspects of your life, we can help anticipate needs, spot issues and reduce risk

Accessible– responsive and quick to resolve any issue, we’re here for you for every need, large or small

Collaborative– our team works closely together, providing regular contact that keeps you informed



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