Gustavo Amaral is a founding partner of Amaral Wealth Management, a wealth management team within the Private Wealth Management Group at UBS. Since 1997, he has provided wealth management advice and services to affluent individuals, families and business owners. Prior to joining UBS in 2015, Amaral spent eighteen years in Merrill Lynch’s Private Banking and Investment Group.

As a private wealth advisor, Amaral works closely with affluent and ultra-affluent families to design and implement cohesive strategies that respond to the demands of significant wealth. He is highly skilled in multiple disciplines, including investment management, trust and estate planning services, credit and lending, family office services and philanthropy. He draws on his years of experience to help highly successful families, corporate executives and business owners preserve, grow and transfer wealth in the most effective manner possible. In addition, Amaral provides detailed investment consulting services, including investment strategy and asset allocation, and is a specially qualified portfolio manager in the UBS Portfolio Management Program (PMP). In this role, he creates and implements customized investment strategies and proprietary model portfolios, and also provide traditional advice and guidance.

Amaral earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business. His numerous financial designations include CFP®, CIMA®, CPWA® and CRPC®.

Amaral and his wife, Elisa, have two daughters, Jasmine and Vanessa. In his free time, he enjoys playing golf, reading literature and traveling.