Merrill Lynch is the world's leading wealth management, capital market and consulting company, with branches and representative offices in 37 countries and regions on six continents and 56,000 employees. Merrill Lynch provides a series of financial services to meet the needs of individual and institutional investment clients. These services include personal financial planning, brokerage securities trading, corporate consulting, foreign exchange and commodity trading, derivatives and research. As an investment bank, Merrill Lynch is also the world's top trader and underwriter of stocks and derivatives across multiple asset classes, and is also a strategic consultant for global enterprises, governments, institutions and individuals.

Merrill Lynch has more than 700 offices and nearly 65,438+06,000 financial consultants around the world, providing financial consulting and management services based on first-class planning for individuals and enterprises, with total assets of clients under management reaching $65,438+0.6 trillion. It is one of the largest wealth management companies in the world.

Merrill Lynch opened its first Asia-Pacific office in Hong Kong on 1960, mainly providing services to private customers. Later, in the 1980s and 1990s, investment banking and securities business gradually developed.

Today, Merrill Lynch has become a leading international investment bank in the Asia-Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific region excluding Japan has more than 3,500 employees and offices in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Taipei. In each Asia-Pacific market, we provide comprehensive and diversified products and services according to local conditions and international professionals.

Merrill Lynch has been active in the China market since the late 1970s. The senior management of Merrill Lynch met with senior leaders from many countries in China and opened a Shanghai representative office on 1993, becoming the first American investment bank to set up a representative office in China. 1994 Merrill Lynch opened its second representative office in China.

Merrill Lynch holds nearly half of the shares of BlackRock, one of the largest investment management companies in the world, and the total assets under management are about 1 trillion dollars.

Mr. Liu is the managing director of Merrill Lynch (Asia Pacific) Limited and the chairman of China. Responsible for coordinating the overall China strategy of various departments within Merrill Lynch Group, and further consolidating and expanding Merrill Lynch's leading position in these key areas together with the senior management of major businesses and products of Merrill Lynch. These businesses and products include finance, insurance, telecommunications, energy and electricity.

Liu has rich experience in investment banking. Before joining Merrill Lynch, Liu worked in several internationally renowned investment banks and was in charge of China business. He graduated from Harvard Business School with a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree in economics from Brandeis University.