This content is from: Portfolio Win Smith Jr. on the Rise and Fall of Merrill Lynch The former Merrill Lynch executive explains how investment banking can reclaim its role as a service industry. By Anne Szustek December 09, 2014
James Gorman's fast rise James Gorman has had many careers. He was a lawyer in his native Australia. Then he worked as a consultant for retail securities practices at McKinsey in New York. September 30, 2001
Peak of his powers He had to forsake Wall Street to land a CEO job. But former top Merrill executive Jeff Peek is on his way to turning stodgy CIT into a financial services dynamo and proving his own pedigree. February 15, 2006
