MERRILL LYNCH WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Merrill Lynch Wealth Management provides advice-based wealth management services and products to individuals and businesses through the one-to-one relationships the group’s financial advisors develop with their clients. They serve the needs of ultra- and high-net-worth individuals and business owners by considering every aspect of their clients’ financial lives. Merrill Lynch has approximately 50 percent ownership in BlackRock, one of the world’s largest publicly traded investment management companies with more than $1.3 trillion in assets under management at December 31, 2008. 

Merrill Lynch was acquired by Bank of America on January 1, 2009. Following the acquisition, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services.

In Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management office locations include London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Paris, Brussels, Geneva and Zurich (Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse), Istanbul, Madrid, Milan, Monte Carlo, Moscow, Manama (Bahrain), Beirut, Riyadh and Dubai. For more information about Merrill Lynch, visit www.ml.com

GROW YOUR BUSINESS

We are currently looking to hire experienced private banking individuals and small teams of private bankers, to be based in one of our EMEA offices. You should have a strong, credible business plan, showing your ability to develop a client base of U/HNW clients. Merrill Lynch Wealth Management is a highly entrepreneurial environment with unique opportunities to grow your business, including 

• Strong links into our global markets and investment banking businesses, giving the opportunity to form internal partnerships to better serve your UHNW clients
• Three pillars “holistic” approach to private banking (discretionary, advisory and wealth structuring)
• Wealth management process and financial modeling tools
• Open architecture access to best-in-class products
• Merrill Lynch Research ranked No.3 in All-Europe research team, No. 3 for Pan-European Equity coverage and No.4 for Emerging EMEA Equity coverage (Institutional Investor, 2008)
• Merrill Lynch Research ranked No.1 for sector research by hedge funds, No.1 for European Emerging Markets research and No.2 for Pan-European Equity & Equity-Linked research (Thomson Reuters Extel, 2008)
• Access to institutional resources and capital markets
• Support from senior management and specialist networks
• Innovative and broad product platform that responds to current opportunities through specialist network
• More than 470 non-U.S. mutual funds from approximately 60 asset management companies domiciled in jurisdictions including Luxembourg, Dublin and the Cayman Islands
• Extensive hedge fund, private equity offering, and structured product capabilities
• Facility to book assets on either our International or Swiss platform, (Merrill Lynch Bank Suisse S.A.)

HOW TO APPLY

If you are interested in applying, please submit your CV to emea_fa_recruitment@ml.com