Ira Walker is Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager within UBS Private Wealth Management. As the Founder of Walker Wealth Management, he leads his team in advising ultra-high net worth clients as part of a boutique multifamily office environment based at the UBS headquarters in New York City and in Red Bank, New Jersey. With more than 38 years of industry experience, Ira is a top-ranking financial advisor and nationally recognized speaker who has been featured in numerous national and industry publications. He has written and lectured extensively with respect to the economy and financial markets, monetary policy and interest rates, and equity and fixed income returns.
Ira Walker Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
Academic History
As Head of Walker Wealth Management, Ira focuses on institutional markets and oversees the group's comprehensive services for ultra-high net worth clients for the team.
Under his leadership, the team also offers a family office environment that can assume day-to-day management and administration of family affairs.
He is a longtime member of the UBS Pinnacle Council, an honor awarded to the firm's most distinguished financial advisors.
EARLY CAREER
Prior to joining UBS in 2008, he was a Senior Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley.
He started his career as a Financial Advisor at Shearson Lehman Brothers in 1985.
He has been rated a Top advisor by Forbes, Barron's and Financial Times and has been featured in numerous industry publications.
RECOGNITIONS
Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors, 2020-2024
Forbes America's Top Wealth Advisors, 2019-2023
Financial Times Top 400 Financial Advisors, 2013-2017
MEDIA & SPEAKING
Ira is a nationally recognized speaker and has been featured as a market commentator on Fox Business News.
He was a featured speaker for Financial Times' NYSE Investment Management Summit in 2012 and was interviewed in Ticker Magazine's Portfolio of ETFs in 2009.
He has also been featured in The Winner Circle by R.J. Hook and Research Magazine's "The Top Team" in 2005.
He has featured in a Forbes magazine interview, "Top Advisor Highlight."