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The company was founded on January 6, 1914, when Charles E. Merrill opened Charles E. Merrill & Co. for business at 7 Wall Street in New York City. [11] A few months later, Merrill's friend, Edmund C. Lynch, joined him, and in 1915 the name was officially changed to Merrill, Lynch & Co. [12] At that time, the firm's name included a comma between Merrill and Lynch, which was dropped in 1938. [13]
BofA Securities, Inc., [1] previously Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BAML), is an American multinational investment banking division under the auspices of Bank of America. It is not to be confused with Merrill , the stock brokerage and trading platform subsidiary of Bank of America.
Additionally, BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research was named the No. 1 Global Broker by Financial Times/StarMine, as well as ranked No. 1 in the U.S. and Europe and No. 2 in Asia.
Source: Wikimedia Commons. Five years ago, Bank of America acquired Merrill Lynch, the nearly 100-year-old investment banking franchise. But it wasn't until today that Merrill Lynch officially ...
Later that day, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America for 0.8595 share of Bank of America common stock for each Merrill Lynch common share, or about $50 billion or $29 per share. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] This price represented a 70.1% premium over the September 12 closing price or a 38% premium over Merrill's book value of $21 a share, [ 52 ] but also ...
Rank Company Headquarter Assets under management 1 UBS Switzerland: $2,403 Million billion 2 Bank of America Merrill Lynch United States: $1,080 Million billion 3 Morgan Stanley United States: $1,045 Million billion 4 Credit Suisse Switzerland: $792 billion 5 J.P.Morgan Private Bank United States: $526 Million billion 6 Citi Private Bank
acquired by White Weld & Co in 1974 and ultimately part of Merrill Lynch: Giuliani Capital Advisors: the investment banking division of Giuliani Partners was sold to Macquarie Group in 2007 Goodbody & Co. merged into Merrill Lynch in 1970 Gruntal & Co. acquired by Ryan Beck & Co. in 2002 H.B. Hollins & Co. liquidated in 1913 Halsey, Stuart & Co.
Rating agencies lowered the credit ratings on $1.9 trillion in mortgage backed securities from the third fiscal quarter (1 July—30 September) of 2007 to the second quarter (1 April–30 June) of 2008. One institution, Merrill Lynch, sold more than $30 billion of collateralized debt obligations for 22 cents on the dollar in late July 2008.