Profile
Mr. Brent Merlis is a Senior Vice President & Head Trader at Ariel Investments LLC.
With over 25 years experience, he oversees Ariel’s international trading efforts across the firm’s global and emerging market strategies.
Prior to joining the firm in 2011, he spent a decade at Deutsche Bank Asset Management on the active equity trading desk where he worked on domestic and international portfolios across numerous financial vehicles and collaborated with fund managers on best execution and risk mitigation.
He started his career at Bear Stearns in their management training program.
He graduated from Syracuse University with a BS in political science.
Brent Merlis active positions
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Ariel Investments LLC
Ariel Investments LLC Investment ManagersFinance Ariel Investments LLC (Ariel) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by John W. Rogers, Jr. in 1983 and is a subsidiary of ACMI, Inc. Ariel provides investment management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients in the US. The firm also serves institutional separate account clients in Canada and offers certain separate account products to professional investors in Australia and Asia. | Trading-Equity | 01/10/2011 |
Former positions of Brent Merlis
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Deutsche Bank Capital Corp. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 28/02/2011 |
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 31/03/2001 |
Training of Brent Merlis
Syracuse University | Undergraduate Degree |
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Deutsche Bank Capital Corp. | Finance |
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. Investment Banks/BrokersFinance Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. is a global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm located in New York City with additional offices in Dallas, Boston and San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary Bear Sterns Cos., Inc. (NYSE: BSC). Their equity research team consists of senior analysts located throughout the world. In addition to domestic coverage, they have research teams focusing on Latin America, Asia and Europe. The analysts use a bottom-up approach to stock selection. The Bear Stearns fixed-income research department provides coverage of every sector of the fixed-income universe. The financial analytics and structured transactions group (F.A.S.T) provides investment research, fixed-income portfolio management and analytical systems, trading technology and general financial expertise. The group also provides a broad range of services to financial institutions including asset-liability management, balance sheet restructuring, receivables-based financing analysis, security and portfolio analysis, peer analysis, and historical and real-time market-based information. | Finance |
Ariel Investments LLC
Ariel Investments LLC Investment ManagersFinance Ariel Investments LLC (Ariel) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and fund management firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded by John W. Rogers, Jr. in 1983 and is a subsidiary of ACMI, Inc. Ariel provides investment management services to a variety of individual and institutional clients in the US. The firm also serves institutional separate account clients in Canada and offers certain separate account products to professional investors in Australia and Asia. | Finance |
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