It’s the part of a bank that focuses primarily on advising and raising money for companies (in the form of helping them to issue new stock or bonds to investors). An investment bank also typically trades stocks, bonds and other investments in the secondary market, partly as a way to help create a trading market for the stocks and bonds that it helped create (on behalf of the companies that issued them). Goldman Sachs is one of the world’s most well-known investment banks.
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