SEC Company Response from UBS AG (AMUB) — Oct 10, 2025
UBS AG
Date: Oct. 10, 2025 · CIK: 0001114446 · Accession: 0001114446-25-004629
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UBS AG
Postfach
8098 Zürich
Todd Tuckner
UBS AG Chief Financial Officer
Tel. +41-44 236 8600
Todd.tuckner@ubs.com
www.ubs.com
Ms. Cara Lubit and Mr. Robert Klein
Division of Corporation Finance
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, NE
Washington DC 20549-1090
October 10, 2025
UBS AG
Form 20-F for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2024
Filed March 17, 2025
File No. 001-15060
Dear Ms. Cara Lubit and Mr. Robert Klein,
We have reviewed the comments
raised in the Comment
Letter dated September
12, 2025 from the
Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission relating to the annual report on Form 20-F for the
fiscal
year
ended
December
31,
2024.
For
your
convenience,
we
have
set
out
the
text
of
each
Comment contained in the Comment Letter, followed by our responses.
Alternative performance measures, page
2
We note your disclosure, here and elsewhere,
that your alternative performance measures
("APMs")
may
qualify
as
non-GAAP
measures.
In
future
filings,
please
clearly
identify
all
APMs
that
are
considered to
be non-GAAP
financial measures
and to
the extent
that they
continue to
be presented,
ensure
that
you
provide
required
disclosures,
including
a
reconciliation,
under
Regulation
G
and
under Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K, as applicable.
UBS response:
In future filings, we
will clearly identify
all non-GAAP measures
and include a reference
to where the
required disclosure and reconciliation is presented in the filing.
The APM definition under Swiss
regulations is significantly broader than the
definition of non-GAAP
financial measures in Regulation
S-K, and hence not
all APMs used by
us are non-GAAP
measures.
For example, “cost/income
ratio” calculated as “operating
expenses divided by total
revenues” is an
APM for purposes
of the Swiss
rules (as it is
a ratio of
two required measures) but
is not a non-GAAP
financial measure.
With respect
to
Regulation G,
we
note
that
UBS
meets the
exemptive
criteria for
foreign
private
issuers.
UBS AG
Postfach
8098 Zürich
Todd Tuckner
UBS AG Chief Financial Officer
Tel. +41-44 236 8600
Todd.tuckner@ubs.com
www.ubs.com
1
UBS AG consolidated performance, page
68
We note your
disclosure, here
and on page
173, that
Portfolio management
and related services
and
Investment fund
fees totaled
$11,328 million
and $5,669
million for
2024, respectively,
and that
they are
predominantly in
Global Wealth
Management
and Asset
Management,
respectively. We also
note
your
disclosure
on
page
266
that
Recurring
net
fee
income
includes
these
revenues.
Please
expand your disclosure in future filings,
here or elsewhere as appropriate, for the
following items:
a.
Discuss
the
nature
of
these
revenue
streams
and
services,
and
describe
any
material
arrangement terms, such
as fee structure
and fee
rates. If applicable,
explain the correlation
of invested
assets and
fee-generating assets
to the
corresponding revenue
line items
at AG
and business division levels.
b.
Disclose
how
Portfolio
management and
related
services and
Investment
fund
fee
revenue
amounts
reconcile
to
the
Recurring
net
fee
income
and/or
any
other
applicable
business
division line amounts presented on pages 44 and
47.
c.
To the extent that revenue
line items at
AG or business
division levels are
impacted by
multiple
change drivers, expand your
discussion of period-over-period changes
to quantify the impacts
of each
material factor (e.g.,
acquisition, change in
invested asset
mix, fee
rate movements,
etc.).
UBS response:
UBS discloses
revenues in its
MD&A in
categories, including
recurring income
and transaction
income
for Global Wealth
Management and
Personal and
Corporate Banking
and net management
fees and
performance fees
for Asset
Management to
provide
investors with
a
better understanding
of the
most important
revenue sources
in these
divisions and
to facilitate
discussion in
the MD&A
of the
key drivers
affecting business
division results.
Definitions of
these measures
are included
in the
MD&A
and the table of Alternative
Performance Measures included
in the Annual Report.
This disclosure is
aligned with how management assesses business
performance.
With respect to the specific comments:
a.
In future Annual Reports, UBS will
expand its discussion of
products, services and fee structures
for each business division in “Our strategy, business model and environment” section.
b.
The
MD&A
discussion
of
net
fee
and
commission
income
in
the
“UBS
AG
consolidated
performance” section
of
the
MD&A
on
page
39
is
based
on
the
breakdown of
net
fee
and
1
Recurring
net
fee
income
of
GWM
includes
”fees
for
services
provided
on
an
ongoing
basis,
such
as
portfolio
management fees,
asset-based investment
fund fees
and custody
fees, which
are
generated on
client assets,
and
administrative fees for accounts.” Transaction-based income of GWM includes “the non-recurring portion of net fee
and commission income, mainly
composed of brokerage and
transaction-based investment fund fees,
and credit card
fees, as well as
fees for payment and foreign
-exchange transactions, together with other
net income from financial
instruments measured at fair value through profit or loss”.
Asset Management
net management fees,
includes fund
management fees,
and transaction
fees, fund
administration
revenues (including net interest and trading income from lending activities
and foreign-exchange hedging as part of
the fund services offering),
distribution fees, incremental fund-related expenses,
gains or losses
from seed money and
co-investments, funding
costs, the
negative pass-through
impact of
third-party performance
fees, and
other items
that are not Asset Management’s performance fees
UBS AG
Postfach
8098 Zürich
Todd Tuckner
UBS AG Chief Financial Officer
Tel. +41-44 236 8600
Todd.tuckner@ubs.com
www.ubs.com
commission
income
that
is
disclosed
in
Note
5
to
the
financial
statements
in
line
with
the
requirements
under
IFRS
15
Revenue
from
Contracts
with
Customers
and
IFRS
8
Operating
Segments
. In addition to
Global Wealth Management,
Personal & Corporate
Banking and Asset
Management,
our
UBS
AG
consolidated
performance
disclosure
also
includes
amounts
attributable to the Investment Bank
and Non-core & Legacy
performance segments, as well as
Group
Items. A
breakdown of
third-party
fee and
commission income
by business
division is
provided in the footnotes to the table in Note 5 to
the financial statements.
The information provided in the MD&A discussion for Global Wealth Management, Personal &
Corporate
Banking
and
Asset
Management
regarding
recurring,
transaction-based,
management
and
performance
fees
is
based
on
the
same
amounts
and
business
division
allocation as set
forth in Note
5 to the
financial statements, but is
presented on a
“net basis”
(that
is,
after
deduction
of
Fee
and
commission
expense,
defined
in
Note
1
to
the
financial
statements
Summary of material accounting policies
as “expenses that are directly attributable
to
the
satisfaction
of
specific
performance
obligations
associated
with
the
generation
of
revenues”) since that is the
information used by management
in evaluating the performance
of
those divisions.
In future
filings we
will add
disclosure to
more fully
explain the
UBS AG
performance MD&A
disclosure
of
fee
and
commission
income,
with
reference
to
the
discussion
of
recurring,
transaction-based, management and
performance fees in
the MD&A
discussion of
the Global
Wealth Management, Personal &
Corporate Banking and Asset
Management business divisions
and to the net fee and commission income disclosed
in Note 5 to the financial statements.
c.
To
the extent that revenue line items at the UBS AG or business division levels are impacted by
multiple change
drivers, we
will enhance
our disclosure
of period-over-period
changes
to provide
further
quantitative
disclosures
for
each
material
driver
that
would
enhance
an
investor’s
understanding of
our results
and are
reflective
of information
that management
considers in
understanding revenue changes.
Please do not hesitate to contact either Todd Tuckner at +41 44 236 8600 (
todd.tuckner@ubs.com
)
or Dominique Crowe at +44 207 567 8158
(
dominique.crowe@ubs.com
) if you have any questions
or require additional information.
Yours faithfully,
UBS AG
/s/ Todd
Tuckner
/s/ Dominique Crowe
Todd
Tuckner
Dominique Crowe
UBS AG Chief Financial Officer
UBS AG Chief Accounting Officer