Our competitors for IQ are investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
The best firms, such as Goldman, used to make returns on equity above 30%.
Others, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, have had similar policies in place for years.
Obsession with talent is no longer confined to blue-chip companies such as Goldman Sachs and General Electric.
Dedicated investment banks such as Goldman Sachs will find it hard to decide whether to remain independent, says Mr Gach.
But this sector, although undoubtedly lucrative, is already occupied by powerful American houses such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.
In response, investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are trying to expand into corporate lending, private banking and retail stockbroking.
Deutsche and Dresdner aimed to create a bank that could rival US investment bank giants such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.
These days, even top-tier investment banks, such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, are losing business to integrated banking groups led by Citigroup, J.
With the increasing globalization of the banking and securities industry, employees at firms such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, UBS, Citibank, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, etc.
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Political opposition seems to have discouraged Mr Levitt who has no time for unwinnable fights which has disappointed Wall Street firms that favour integration, such as Goldman Sachs.
Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch have been buying stakes in, and forming partnerships with, several e-stockbrokers, e-investment banks and electronic share-trading systems.
But when I think of investors in need of protection, I think of little guys who need protecting from the likes of Wall Street giants such as Goldman Sachs.
They typically conduct their investment activity through a prime broker, which is often a team within a large Wall Street investment bank, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse.
The news comes as some Wall Street companies, such as Goldman Sachs, are expected to hand out record or near-record bonuses in 2009--even though the government had to step in last fall to rescue the U.S. financial industry.
Investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have been trying to expand their private banking businesses in the past few years, particularly by courting those whom they have helped to become rich by taking their company public.
That might be a reasonable expectation, given that big banks such as Goldman have been bailed out by taxpayers in the past and doubtless will be again (for all the current spate of reforms designed to cut them free).
Its investment banking division provides debt and equity underwriting services to corporates and merger related advisory services for institutions and competes with other established investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, UBS and Wells Fargo.
Beneficiaries include longtime Obama backers such as Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley and Google.
As with most U.S. companies that go public, the stock first is bought by an investment bank, such as the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York.
Joseph Grundfest, a professor at Stanford Law School and a former SEC commissioner, points out that the rule in question states very clearly that a fund such as the one Goldman has in mind should be treated as a single shareholder.
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Dealers, such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, have backed away from soaking up unwanted paper.
But it was also criticised last year by MPs on the public accounts committee for supposedly cutting "cosy" deals to settle the complicated tax affairs of big companies such as Vodafone and Goldman Sachs.
Technology and financial companies that rely on data centers for information storage and communication (companies such as Microsoft or Goldman Sachs) need to be especially careful about minimizing the cooling expenses associated with these operations.
When you are standing in front of a building housing a bulge bracket investment bank, such as Merrill Lynch or Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs, or a financial powerhouse, such as Citibank or JP Morgan or UBS or Deutsche Bank, you know very clearly whose headquarters you are loitering in front of, which a double skinny latte in your hand.
That favours larger banks, particularly the Americans such as Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.
Financial giants such as JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have received the exemptions, almost 350 of them.
Bosses such as Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs have railed against the provision, saying it will harm American firms, but it is likely to stay.
Diversified, deposit-taking universal banks can maintain higher credit ratings and can borrow more cheaply than specialist investment banks such as Morgan Stanley or Goldman Sachs.
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