Wall Street to Main Street - Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors

Klappentext A biography of Charles Merrill! the founder of the world's largest brokerage and investment firm. Zusammenfassung Based on archival sources, this 1999 book is a biography about the career of this major Wall Street figure. Charles Merrill (1885–1956) founded the world's largest brokerage and investment firm and was the most innovative entrepreneur in the American financial services sector in the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The return to Wall Street; 2. Growing up in Florida; 3. A Northern education; 4. The lure of New York; 5. Off to a flying start; 6. The booming twenties; 7. The Safeway decade; 8. Reform on Wall Street; 9. Third career: new strategies on Wall Street; 10. Testing new strategies: the war years; 11. Sharing power with Win Smith; 12. The postwar years, 1945-50; 13. Last years at the helm, 1951-56; 14. Merrill's legacy; Epilogue: Merrill Lynch in the 1990s; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin J. Perkins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521027793
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02779-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Business & Economics / Investments & Securities / General, Biography: business & industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, United States of America, USA, Biography: business and industry, Investment & securities, Investment and securities