PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, March 20 (Reuters) - As the Iran conflict intensifies, the spike in oil prices and rising inflation fears are spurring investors to ditch stocks as too risky and shun traditional safe havens such as gold in favor of money market funds. The result: assets in those ultra-short-term and ultra-safe Treasury funds are now hovering around $8 trillion,...

* Nearly 200 financial advisers left UBS, sources say * UBS targets 15% pre-tax margin in US wealth division, up from 13% last year * RBC and Wells Fargo ( WFC ) hire top UBS financial adviser teams By Tatiana Bautzer and Nivedita Balu NEW YORK/ TORONTO, March 20 (Reuters) - Swiss bank UBS Group is facing obstacles in revamping...

TORONTO/WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters) - While all Wall Street banks are winners under a U.S. proposal to reduce the amount of capital they must hold, institutions with big trading operations stand to benefit more than traditional lenders, and this could potentially pit them against one another as they seek final revisions. Capital at the biggest U.S. banks -- the amount...

CHICAGO, March 20 (Reuters) - U.S. airline chiefs are talking about the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in a way that many of their counterparts overseas are not - projecting confidence about fares and demand even as fuel costs surge and global aviation is disrupted. For the biggest U.S. carriers, which do not hedge against oil price rises, the shock is...