Investment Banking: We assist in capital raising and M&A transactions for corporate and government clients. We also offer intermediating, advising and arranging finance; risk-management services to institutional investor clients; performing research and participating in investment banking activities. For institutional investing clients, we aid in effective asset management along with equity, fixed income, alternative investments and money market investment products and services.
Although each investment bank takes a somewhat different approach, the principal businesses of most large investment banks include (a) investment banking business managed by the Investment Banking Division, which focuses on capital raising and M&A transactions for corporate clients and capital raising for government clients; (b) sales and trading business managed by the Trading Division, which provides investing, intermediating, and risk-management services to institutional investor clients, performs research, and also participates in nonclient-related investing activities; and (c) asset management business managed by the Asset Management Division, which is responsible for managing money for individual and institutional investing clients.