I haven't had any personal investments with Merrill Lynch in over three decades, but since I have a lot of business associations with people who do, I often end up conducting or becoming involved in business dealings with them. This particular office, like all offices of Merrill Lynch is pretty much top of league having an upper class financial/banker like décor and atmosphere about it. The people who work here are all perfectly mannered and just about as polite and friendly as anyone could ever be and all professionals at what they do.
There are two things about dealing with Merrill Lynch that I particularly like. The first is that as an investment house associated with one of the world's largest banks, Bank of America, they have a depth of resources and available expertise to tap into. So, when things get a little out of the usual like requiring some knowledge of IC-Disc partnerships in order to gain foreign sales preferences, matters of depletion allowances as opposed to run of the mill depreciations, non-participatory royalty as opposed to participatory working interests and such, they usually have someone somewhere available within their organization who does have an expertise in those areas.
The second is that every time I've ever read any of their proposals or recommendations, they've generally been tailor made, not just a one size fits all, for the situation of the individual investor or individual investor needs. Also, I've found them to be well written, well thought out, and done in what are rather admirable forms of presentation. read more