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Switzerland’s Julius Baer Draws Line Under Credit Review With New Charge

2025-11-24 10:02
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Switzerland’s Julius Baer Draws Line Under Credit Review With New Charge

By Elena VardonShareResizeListen(2 min)Assets under management at Julius Baer rose to a record 520 billion francs at the end of October. fabrice coffrini/Agence France-Presse/Getty ImagesJulius Baer i...

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Sign for Julius Bär, a Swiss private banking giant.Assets under management at Julius Baer rose to a record 520 billion francs at the end of October. fabrice coffrini/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Julius Baer is turning the page on a set of legacy issues with the conclusion of a credit review under which the Swiss bank is taking another large provision for bad property loans.

The Zurich-based private bank has been seeking to clean up its books and move past the fallout from its exposure to the now-insolvent real-estate group of Austrian tycoon Rene Benko, which led to major losses and the ousting of its former chief executive early last year.

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