The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Global investment bank, trading, and asset and wealth management firm

What Goldman Sachs does

Goldman Sachs is a large financial firm that helps companies, governments, and wealthy individuals raise money, buy or merge with other businesses, and trade stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities. It also invests and manages money for clients and offers private banking and financial planning. It provides credit cards and cash management services for businesses too.

How Goldman Sachs makes money

It earns advisory and underwriting fees on deals, trading revenue and interest from market-making and lending, and management fees from assets it oversees. It also earns income from its own investments, credit cards, and transaction banking.

Products & services

• M&A and strategic advisory
• Equity and debt underwriting
• Trading and client execution in stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities
• Asset management (equity, fixed income, hedge funds, private equity, real estate)
• Wealth management and private banking
• Credit cards and transaction banking