Exhibit 24.2 POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR UBS PREFERRED FUNDING COMPANY LLC V, UBS PREFERRED FUNDING COMPANY LLC VI, UBS PREFERRED FUNDING COMPANY LLC VII, UBS PREFERRED FUNDING COMPANY LLC VIII AND UBS PREFERRED FUNDING COMPANY LLC IX Each of the undersigned directors of UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC V, UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC VI, UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC VII, UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC VIII and UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC IX hereby constitutes and appoints Niall O'Toole or Annelise Schwyter, acting jointly or severally, as attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in the name and on behalf of such person, in any and all capacities, to sign the registration statement on Form F-3 relating to the registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), of Noncumulative Trust Preferred Securities to be issued on a continuous basis by UBS Preferred Funding Trust V, UBS Preferred Funding Trust VI, UBS Preferred Funding Trust VII, UBS Preferred Funding Trust VIII and UBS Preferred Funding Trust IX, Noncumulative Company Preferred Securities to be issued by UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC V, UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC VI, UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC VII, UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC VIII and UBS Preferred Funding Company LLC IX, to sign any and all amendments to such registration statement, to sign any abbreviated registration statement filed pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorney-in-fact and agent, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully for all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agent, or his substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. <Table> <Caption> NAME TITLE DATE /s/ CLAUDE MOSER Chairman, President and - -------------------------------- Chief Executive Officer March 22, 2006 Claude Moser /s/ PER DYRVIK Managing Director and March 22, 2006 - -------------------------------- Treasurer Per Dyrvik /s/ NIALL O'TOOLE Executive Director and March 22, 2006 - -------------------------------- Secretary Niall O'Toole </Table>