UBS Private Wealth Management has added a six-person team in South Florida managing $5 billion in assets from rival JPMorgan, while also picking up a JPMorgan team in Kenwood, Ohio, UBS said on Wednesday.
The South Florida team is led by financial advisors Brian Beraha and Vicente del Rio, and also includes advisor Horacio S. Aguirre, senior wealth strategy associates Jared Pillar and Alexis Audisio, and Michelle Gonzalez, client service associate.
The team will report to Karl Ruppert, South Florida complex director at UBS Private Wealth Management.
Only one day earlier, UBS said it had nabbed a three-person team in South Florida managing over $1.8 billion in assets from rival Wells Fargo. That team also reports to Ruppert.
The former JPMorgan team will also work closely with Richard Suss, downtown Miami branch manager at UBS Wealth Management USA.
Beraha and del Rio join UBS after several years at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, where they built a business focusing on ultra-high-net-worth families and individuals in South Florida.
Before his tenure at J.P. Morgan Private Bank started in 2013, Beraha was with Merrill Lynch's Private Banking and Investment Group. His areas of expertise include family office structuring and governance, complex credit, multi-generational wealth transfers, philanthropic giving and assisting entrepreneurs in exit planning.
Del Rio serves as the team's portfolio manager, leading the strategy and due diligence process on all investments. His areas of expertise include analysis of traditional and alternative asset classes, creating structured investment vehicles, and addressing concentrated wealth issues via traditional and nontraditional methods.
In his prior role, del Rio was a member of J.P. Morgan's U.S. Private Bank Advisory Council and a member of its Opportunistic Investment Committee. He was with that firm since 2010, according to his report on the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's BrokerCheck website.
