The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides a range of investment banking, securities, and investment management services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Investment Banking, Trading and Principal Investments, and Asset Management and Securities Services. The Investment Banking segment provides financial advisory services, including advisory assignments with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings, and spin-offs; and underwriting services, including public offerings and private placements of common and preferred stock, convertible and exchangeable securities, investment-grade debt, high-yield debt, sovereign and emerging market debt, municipal debt, bank loans, asset-backed securities, and real estate-related securities, such as mortgage-related securities and the securities of real estate investment trusts. The Trading and Principal Investments segment engages in market making in, trading of, and investing in fixed income and equity products, currencies, commodities, and derivatives on these products. It also involves in specialist and market-making activities on equities and options exchanges; clearing client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges; and making principal investments directly and through funds that the company raises and manages. The Asset Management and Securities Services segment provides investment advisory and financial planning services, as well as offers investment products. This segment also provides prime brokerage services, financing services, and securities lending services. The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in New York, New York.