Company Analysis and Prognosis: Goldman Sachs
Nic Wilson
MGMT 498
John Pepper
1 November 2012
Table of Contents
Introduction-1
Background-2
Organizational Definition-3
Company Organization and Structure-3
Institutional Client Services-3
Investment Management-4
Investment Banking-4
Investing and Lending-4
Revenue, Expense, and Net Income-5
Assets-6
Return on Assets and Equity-7
Position in the Industry-8
Stock Market Performance-9
VRIO Analysis-9
SWOT Analysis-10
Strengths-10
Weakness-10
Opportunities-11
Threats-11
Corporate Level Strategy-12
Business Level Strategy-12
Prognosis-12
Conclusion-13
Nic Wilson
MGMT 498
John Pepper
1 November 2012
Company Analysis and Prognosis: Goldman Sachs
Introduction
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Financial services differ greatly depending upon where you are at. Different countries have different currencies, markets, laws, and accounting practices to list a few. Because of this most financial institutions use a similar organizational structure. Goldman Sachs breaks their operations into four segments: Institutional client services, investment management, investment banking, and investment and lending (GS).
Institutional Client Services
They have a global structure to ensure satisfaction with strategic and financing needs of clients around the world. In the institutional client services segment they facilitate client transactions and make markets in fixed income, equity, currency and commodity products—primarily with institutional clients (GS). In addition to this they make markets and clear client transactions on major stock options and futures exchanges worldwide, provide financing, securities lending and prime brokerage services (GS). Although revenues from these activities are decreasing it is still by far the greatest source of their revenue (GS).
Investment Management
Investment Management is
When considering GSA’s strategic direction, we should first build an understanding of its relative position within the private equity market. GSA’s current value proposition to its clients is: 1) Greater accessibility to private equity firms through GSA’s customized services, allowing less sophisticated clients to progress from a passive fund-of-funds investor into a direct private equity investor, removing the intermediation between the GP and the client; 2) A strategy of “vintage-year diversification”, whereby GSA contributes to funds over a number of different years in order to gain access to many different types of funds; and 3) A compensation structure that is weighted towards carried interest at the expense of fees, ensuring an alignment of interests between GSA and its clients. These strategies have helped the fund retain large and important
In the context of an advisory relationship, the wealth management firm works with the client to develop, implement and monitor a comprehensive wealth management strategy.
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