Zacks.com Features the Following Top Stocks in the Investment Management Industry: Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Legg Mason.CHICAGO -- The All Stars are here with four recommendations to help you broker a profitable investment in the investment management space. Read about Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :C), The Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., or simply Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) is one of the world's largest global investment banks. Goldman Sachs was founded in 1869, and is headquartered in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City at 85 Broad Street. Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. (NYSE:MER mer Among the Cheremi and Udmurt peoples of Russia, a sacred grove where people of several villages gathered periodically to hold religious festivals and sacrifice animals to nature gods. ), and Legg Mason Founded in 1899, Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE: LM) is a leading Global Asset Management Firm that serves the institutional, mutual fund and wealth management markets. The firm is headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, and is located on Lombard and Charles Streets in the Legg Mason , Inc. (NYSE:LM). Discover the full story at Zacks.com http://at.zacks.com/?id=96 What Do The All Stars Recommend: Citigroup, Inc.'s (NYSE:C) diversified business platform was of great use to the company in its third quarter, as strong results from its consumer businesses helped earnings per diluted share to reach $1.02. That was enough to advance from last year while also topping the consensus by approximately +3%. Citigroup's global consumer businesses, which helped to offset soft capital markets activity, watched income jumped +23% to $3.07 billion. Meanwhile, revenue improved +15% to $11.7 billion. Card income rose +29% to $1.27 billion, while consumer finance advanced +35% to $643 million and retail banking increased +15% to $1.23 billion. The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) posted third quarter diluted earnings of $1.74 per share, compared to $1.32 in the year-ago quarter. The result was more than +19% ahead of the consensus. Some of the highlights in the quarter included net revenues of $1.87 billion in Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities (FICC FICC Fixed Income Clearing Corporation FICC Federal Identity Credentialing Committee FICC Federal Interagency Coordinating Council FICC Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities FICC Frequency Interference Control Center ), versus last year's $879 million. Strong results in mortgages, commodities, credit products and interest rate products helped to spark this increase. Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER) posted third quarter earnings per share of 93 cents, which topped the consensus by more than +1%, but fell from the year-ago level due to reduced activity levels. However, analysts are still paying close attention to Merrill Lynch because of its encouraging future. The company has been repositioning repositioning Laparoscopic surgery The changing of a Pt's position during a procedure to improve access or visualization of the operative field, which may be linked to complications, as it changes anatomic planes of operation. Cf Laparoscopic surgery. its business model for several years now, which kept it on track for record earnings for the first nine months of 2004. Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM) reported diluted earnings of 81 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. for its September quarter on net revenues of $568 million. That earnings result bettered the consensus by almost +4% while net revenues advanced by +24% from last year. Both of those results were the highest in the firm's history. Assets under management Assets Under Management (AUM) is a term used by financial services companies in the mutual fund and money management or investment management business to gauge how much money they are managing. , as of September 30, 2004, aggregated $311 billion. That's up +31% from $236.9 billion last year and up +5% sequentially. 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