Goldman Sachs

(NYSE: GS · $893.95 ▼ 0.2%) Goldman Sachs is a financial institution that operates at the center of capital markets, organized around its Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. The company frames its work as acting as one firm, mobilizing its people, capital, and ideas to address clients' complex challenges. Firms of this kind sit between companies, governments, and investors, helping them raise capital, trade securities, and manage assets.

Within Global Banking & Markets, Goldman Sachs runs Investment Banking, FICC and Equities, Marquee, and Transaction Banking. Asset & Wealth Management covers Asset Management, Private Wealth Management, Private Banking and Lending, Ayco, and Marcus, while a Platform Solutions unit handles Enterprise Partnerships. This pairing of institutional trading and advisory work with wealth and asset management is typical of large global banks, which use the combination to serve corporations, institutions, and wealthy individuals across market cycles. The firm also publishes Global Investment Research and economic and market analysis through series such as Exchanges, The Markets, Talks at GS, and Top of Mind, along with a weekly newsletter called Briefings.

Goldman Sachs has a 157-year history and lists partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence as its shared values. With offices around the world and a workforce of more than 46,000 people as of 2024, the company places apprenticeship at the center of its culture, offering hands-on coaching and access to experienced leaders. Its impact-oriented programs include 10,000 Small Businesses, 10,000 Women, One Million Black Women, Goldman Sachs Gives, and Community TeamWorks. Large banks often run programs of this kind alongside their commercial operations, applying capital and business expertise to entrepreneurship, small-business growth, and community economic development.