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McClelland, Brown and
Goldie-Morrison
(left to right): charged with putting
profitability before league table position
in investment banking |
Ken Lewis, who celebrates his first anniversary as CEO of
Bank of America later this month, believes his institution won't
need to face the buy, sell or give-up choice faced by all previous
US investment banking aspirants. But with his investment-banking
unit, Banc of America Securities, he still has to follow exactly
the same path as all those that have gone before him - to develop a
meaningful franchise in equities and mergers&acquisitions.
It's how he intends to do it that is different. "We want to add
equities and M&A expertise to our platform," he told Euromoney
last month. "But we want to grow those franchises steadily and
profitably."
There are no plans to allow the profits of one part of the business
to subsidize the growth of another. Compare...
