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December 14, 2020

$20-Million UBS Team Jumps to Start RIA

by Mason Braswell
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A New York-based UBS Wealth Management USA team managing about $4.5 billion of client assets has broken away to start a registered investment advisory firm.

Led by Jeffrey Kobernick and Robert Sechan, the group produced around $20 million in the previous 12 months, said Sechan, a former FA Advisory Council member and chair of UBS’s “intellectual capital subcommittee” that advises the firm on policies regarding hedge funds and other alternative investments.

Formerly known as Turnstone Wealth Management, the 12-person team left en masse on Friday to start NewEdge Wealth in Darien, CT, as an affiliate of EdgeCo Holdings’ new push into wealth management.

EdgeCo, a 401(k) and trust administrator and custodian that also owns broker-dealer Mid Atlantic Capital, earlier this year bought Private Wealth Partners, a firm started by former UBS and Morgan Stanley private wealth executive John Straus to steer ultra-high-net-worth wirehouse brokers to independence. His son, John, Jr., is an advisor on the breakaway team.

The UBS group has been exploring independence for several years at the behest of its approximately 100 family clients who were seeking a broader range of family-office services and products than wirehouses offer, said Sechan, 51, who has worked with Kobernick since the mid-1990s at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers.

“This is just the way the ball is bouncing for ultra-wealthy families,” said Sechan, who has been with UBS since 2008. “UBS’s platform was terrific, but it was UBS’s platform.”

A UBS spokesman declined to comment.

The decision to hitch to a relatively new wealth management enterprise—Straus’s Private Wealth Partners had a single group of advisors using its platform when it sold itself to EdgeCo, Sechan said—came in part through a mutual friendship that went beyond the Straus family relationship. Sechan said he is close friends with Chuck Warden, a member of EdgeCo’s board, and was persuaded that the team can use the new platform to attract more advisors.

EdgeCo is based in Pittsburgh, as is Federated Securities, the asset management firm where Sechan got his start.

“As client needs evolve, so too must the firm itself, or advisors will miss the mark on providing the highest quality service to their clients,” Warden said in a prepared statement. “Today’s ultra-high-net-worth investors need access to creative solutions, advanced resources and cutting-edge technology to succeed.”

To attract advisors, Sechan said he anticipates being able to offer equity in the venture, along with the pitch about the superiority of PWP’s platform technology. He said he has six meetings with prospects lined up.

In addition to Sechan and Kobernick, who is in his mid-60s and who worked at UBS from an office in Florida as well as midtown Manhattan, the team includes Straus, Jr., and Walter Granruth.

The younger Straus, a three-time Forbes’ “Top Next-Gen” advisor started his career in 2010 at UBS. Granruth, a 20-year brokerage veteran, began his career at DLJ/Credit Suisse, and joined UBS in 2002

The new RIA is using Fidelity Investments as its custodian, and the advisors have registered with Mid Atlantic Capital for their brokerage business.

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  • on Dec 14 2020, Without U it’s just BS says:

    So 34 million in production out the door in the last two weeks?!? I’m sure UBS is happy that these advisors left as it’s really the local management that matter the most.

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  • on Dec 14 2020, Freedom says:

    Just like I did at UBS, calculate how much you have paid them over the last decade, review what have they provided your clients and team for that sum, and then consider your world without all of the NOs and lack of flexibility. A team of this size will do so much better on the independent side! John Straus, Bob Holland, and Don Marron have all moved in one way or another into the RIA business.

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    • on Dec 14 2020, Paulo says:

      Except Don Marron is dead

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  • on Dec 14 2020, Freedom says:

    Well aware. I was pointing out the previous leaders that chose to align themselves with independent after long careers at the wire. You see the same thing with ex ML, Goldman, and JP Morgan execs. May have something to do with ownership, flexibility, and opportunity Vs being a corporate executive (which usually ends with stock options that don’t add up). And bureaucracy!

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  • on Dec 14 2020, GogetemEddie says:

    My manager sez were winning! We’re winning so much we’re getting tired of winning. Let’s see UBS pays 3X to replace the avg million dollar guy If they could could replace the 300 or so departures that’s close to a billion dollars? Sounds like a business in liquidation

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    • on Dec 18 2020, Ron Edde says:

      On it amigo…and have been for a long time!

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