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Registered Rep. March 12, 2004 John Churchill |
Merrill Rewards CEO for Record Profits According to the company's 2004 proxy statement, O'Neal's massive compensation is due to the company's superior performance in 2003. Merrill tallied $4 billion in profits and improved revenue during tough market conditions.  |
BusinessWeek November 5, 2007 Matthew Goldstein |
Why Merrill Got Burned So Badly Its leadership role in underwriting risky CDOs brought in millions in fees but put Merrill Lynch in the subprime bull's-eye.  |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Maria Bartiromo |
John Thain on His New Job as CEO of Merrill Lynch John Thain talks about his appointment as CEO of Merrill Lynch.  |
Registered Rep. February 10, 2009 |
In First Media Interview, McCann Says Resignation Was At A "Logical Time" In his first interview since leaving Merrill Lynch, Robert J. McCann says he maintains good feelings for both Merrill Lynch and the timing of his departure.  |
The Motley Fool October 25, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
A Major Stumble at Merrill Lynch In quarterly results Merrill Lynch announces its writedown will be $7.9 billion, almost twice as much as announced just last month.  |
Registered Rep. October 26, 2007 David Geracioti |
O'Neal Rumored To Be On the Chopping Block Apparently Merrill Lynch has been gorging itself on risk. And, it may cost CEO Stan O'Neal his job. Merrill's shares are down by about 35% this year.  |
Registered Rep. July 1, 2006 |
Merrill Eyeing Banking for Small Business Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal says the firm could purchase a consumer bank as part of a strategy to make his firm's retail brokerage operation more attractive to small business clients.  |
Registered Rep. January 22, 2009 |
Thain Departs BofA--An $87,000 Rug? Say It Ain't So, John! Client AUMs Fall By 30 Percent In 2008 John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch and the man who engineered the sales of the storied Wall Street firm to Bank of America in September, is leaving the combined firm immediately.  |
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Alex Dumortier |
Merrill Brings Home the Bacon The firm's solid third-quarter performance comes as no surprise to investors.  |
Registered Rep. March 1, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Got Conflicts? A new business model seems to be gaining popularity: retail brokerages spinning off their asset-management businesses but retaining a minority stake.  |
Registered Rep. January 26, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Awards O'Neal $20.6 Million in Stock Merrill Lynch CEO Stanley O'Neal was once again among the highest paid Wall Street executives in 2005.  |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2008 Morgan Housel |
Washington Mutual's Shady Compensation Plan Poor performance plus huge write-offs plus big layoffs equals big executive bonuses.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2008 Alex Dumortier |
Merrill Apes Goldman ... Again Merrill Lynch will create a senior executive role responsible for all European businesses in a move that mimics Goldman Sachs' hierarchy.  |
Registered Rep. September 19, 2006 John Churchill |
Merrill's O'Neal to Be Deposed for Discrimination Suit Stanley O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, will be deposed as part of the discovery phase in a race-discrimination suit filed by one of the firm's black brokers.  |
Registered Rep. June 6, 2006 Halah Touryalai |
End of Settlement Talks Bring Students to Protest Against Merrill Lynch African-American college students protested in front of several Chicago-based Merrill Lynch offices one day after settlement talks between African-American reps who claim they were discriminated against and Merrill Lynch came to an end.  |
Registered Rep. November 14, 2007 John Churchill |
NYSE's John Thain New Merrill CEO According to reports in the online versions of the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, NYSE Euronext CEO John Thain has accepted the top spot at Merrill Lynch.  |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Mara Der Hovanesian |
Why Not Larry Fink Laurence D. Fink foresaw the mortgage crisis and was a contender to succeed Stan O'Neal. Then Merrill passed him over.  |
Registered Rep. September 25, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
NY Attorney General: I Could Have Nailed Merrill on More Serious Charges Eliot Spitzer said he could have pursued criminal charges against Merrill Lynch for its conflicts of interest in its research, but that he didn't want to "destroy" the firm or Wall Street.  |
Registered Rep. October 14, 2010 Kristen French |
Merrill Brokers Had "Good Reason" To Leave, And Got $1.2 ml For It Two former Merrill brokers won $1.167 million in an arbitration award from Merrill Lynch for deferred compensation benefits  |
Registered Rep. September 5, 2002 Rick Weinberg |
While O'Neal Speaks, Rumors Fly Merrill Lynch President Stan O'Neal spoke at his firm's financial services conference about the erosion of investor confidence and restoring investor trust. But the buzz was all about a report in a German newspaper that UBS AG had made an offer for Merrill.  |
Registered Rep. January 31, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Goes to School for a New Fund Name Beginning in May, the company said its U.S. retail products will be offered under the Princeton Portfolio Research & Management brand, affecting about $223 billion in mutual funds and separately managed accounts.  |
Registered Rep. February 8, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Brokers to Get Less Money Now, More Later--If They Stay Merrill Lynch has changed the way it pays its brokers to include more deferred compensation and less cash. The new package rewards brokers who stay a long time, while penalizing those that don't. Its aim is reducing turnover, but may also improve the firm's earnings.  |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: Merrill Wants Its Bubble Back, Too The investing bigwig longs for the return of astronomical housing prices.  |
Registered Rep. June 11, 2008 |
Thain + You, Sittin' in A Tree Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain heaps praise upon the wealth management division during an interview.  |
Registered Rep. October 30, 2003 |
Merrill CEO: We're Hiring Stan O'Neal, chairman and chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, says the company is accelerating its hiring of financial advisors.  |
BusinessWeek November 26, 2007 Goldstein & Thornton |
He Fixed the NYSE. Can He Fix Merrill? John Thain won kudos for turning around the Big Board. Now he faces a bigger challenge cleaning up the subprime mess at Merrill Lynch.  |
Registered Rep. February 13, 2006 Kristen French |
Merrill, BlackRock Deal Near Merrill Lynch is close to doing what Morgan Stanley could not: acquire a large stake in BlackRock, the stellar bond funds house, in a deal that would create a $1 trillion money manager.  |
Registered Rep. December 27, 2005 Stan Luxenberg |
Merrill Funds To Change Name In the latest move, the Wall Street giant announced that it intends to change the name of Merrill Lynch Investment Management's funds to -- well, that has yet to be determined and won't be until sometime in early 2006.  |
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson |
Maybe a Bull Case for Merrill Lynch This large broker-dealer is doing well, but further operating improvements could make it a bargain for investors.  |
Registered Rep. April 15, 2011 Kristen French |
Merrill Earnings Strongest Since Bank of America Takeover Bank of America's Global Wealth and Investment Management division, which includes Merrill Lynch, reported its highest earnings since Bank of America's takeover of Merrill in late 2008, as asset management and brokerage fees rose.  |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Is It Goodbye to Stan? Rumors are raging that Merrill's CEO will be ousted. So why would Stan get the boot? Well, the most obvious reason would be the massive losses that Merrill racked up in its third quarter.  |
Registered Rep. October 24, 2007 John Churchill |
Merrill Earnings Ugly, But Brokerage Is The Sweet Spot Stan O'Neal opened Merrill Lynch's earnings call by not beating around the bush: The firm had a net loss of $2.3 billion, due largely in part from $7.9 billion in write-downs related to exposure to sub-prime mortgages and collateralized debt obligations.  |
Registered Rep. October 21, 2004 Will Leitch |
Merrill's O'Neal Speaks: Some Regulatory Action Politically Motivated In a rare public appearance, Stan O'Neal, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, took indirect aim at regulators -- and perhaps even New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in particular.  |
Registered Rep. October 2, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Hands Over Mutual Fund Reins to BlackRock BlackRock, the nation's third-largest bond fund manager, said it has completed its takeover of the asset-management arm of Merrill Lynch; the union is one of the world's largest asset managers.  |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Party On, Merrill! For investors in the brokerage industry, it would appear that the party still isn't over. Merrill Lynch delivered knockout first-quarter results.  |
Registered Rep. June 21, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Merrill Eyeing Overseas Wealthy, Banking for Small Business Merrill Lynch, on the prowl for strategic acquisitions, may look overseas for its next purchase in an effort to bolster its wealth-management business.  |
Registered Rep. September 15, 2008 Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors.  |
Registered Rep. September 17, 2008 |
Merrill Reps: Waiting For Retention News Brokers were told they would be offered retention packages, but no further details have been offered so far.  |
Registered Rep. November 15, 2007 Christina Mucciolo |
Merrill Stops Squirming, Reps Have Mixed Reviews Previously, Merrill Lynch chiefs have usually been plucked from in house, and were former brokers, convivial and backslapping. By contrast, recently hired CEO John Thain is considered cerebral and not charismatic.  |
The Motley Fool January 18, 2008 Matt Koppenheffer |
Why Would Anyone Be Bullish on Merrill? After dropping 50% from its 52-week high, will Merrill Lynch be able to continue as a going concern?  |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2008 Morgan Housel |
This Wall Street CEO Earned His Pay It's easy to boo Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain for his colossal payday, but if there's one Wall Street executive who actually deserves what he's asking for, it's him.  |
On Wall Street September 1, 2009 Helen Kearney |
On Life Support a Year Ago, Merrill Pays for Top Producers Merrill, under BofA, seems to be on the hunt to add to its ranks, and it's offering a very competitive package that has almost unlimited upside for top producers.  |
Registered Rep. February 15, 2006 Kevin Burke |
What the BlackRock/Merrill Deal Means to Advisors The deal marks the biggest asset-management merger in history and has far-reaching implications for rank-and-file reps as well as the financial-services industry at large.  |
Registered Rep. November 1, 2007 John Churchill |
Subprime Mess: Merrill and Goldman Reportedly Under Eye of SEC The subprime debt market blowup has had very different effects on Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch, but both firms could be getting a visit from the SEC to make sure everyone played by the rules.  |
Registered Rep. March 15, 2012 Kristen French |
Did the $5 Debit Card Fee Prompt the Merrill Exodus? Bank of America Merrill Lynch has been bleeding top brokers in the past six months, just as many industry observers predicted.  |
The Motley Fool October 8, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Merrill Lynch's Lapse Merrill Lynch announces that its third-quarter numbers will be very, very disappointing.  |
Registered Rep. June 1, 2012 Jerry Gleeson |
Rep.'s Annual Compensation Report 2012: The Chink in the Ka-Ching Small household accounts have always been the bane of brokerages' existence, and advisors who work with such clients do so at the peril of their own compensation.  |
Registered Rep. December 1, 2005 Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch: Still Wirehouse Queen Merrill reps like what they see. This year, the firm kept top honors among wirehouses in the Broker Report Card surveys, and beat its own overall score from last year.  |
Registered Rep. February 2, 2006 Kevin Burke |
Tangled up in Ivy: Merrill's Princeton Problem Princeton University is steamed at Merrill Lynch for rebranding its captive mutual-fund operation Princeton Portfolio Research & Management, as the giant investment bank and brokerage attempts to find a wider market for its lineup of 108 funds.  |
Registered Rep. October 1, 2002 Glenn Curtis |
Is Merrill Lynch Headed to the Altar? Despite repeated denials by UBS CEO Marcel Ospel, there is persistent speculation that the Zurich-based bank has been preparing a formal takeover bid for Merrill Lynch. However, there are hurdles, and Merrill may stick it out alone.  |