Brodie Johnson – formerly the Director of Residual Trading at Merrill Lynch – worked in bond trading and investment banking for more than three decades.

1. Basic Functions of an Investment Bank
Brodie Johnson, Formerly of Merrill Lynch

2. Brodie Johnson – formerly the Director of Residual Trading at
Merrill Lynch – worked in bond trading and investment
banking for more than three decades.
Brodie Johnson Merrill Lynch

3. The innovator behind the security that revived the Collateralized Mortgage Obligation market
after the 2008 financial crisis – as well as the Conditional Stratified Sampling algorithm that
increased the speed of Monte Carlo simulations – Johnson has enjoyed a rewarding career, one
now in the phase of semi-retirement.
Brodie Johnson Merrill Lynch

4. As someone with in-depth experience in investment banking, Brodie Johnson – formerly of
Merrill Lynch – knows well the most basic activities or functions engaged in by an investment
banking institution
Brodie Johnson Merrill Lynch

5. ● Providing advice to large private – and sometimes public – institutions regarding
borrowing, selling shares (or bonds), M&As and more.
● Assisting clients in the buying and selling of securities.
● Lending funds to clients – or acting as an underwriter in the case of a securities offering
● Buying and selling securities on its own in order to generate profits for the bank itself.
Some of these include:

6. Thank You..