Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Brown Brothers Harriman is a global financial services firm operating through two main business lines. Its Investor Services arm provides custody, accounting, administration, capital markets services and operating model solutions to global asset managers and financial institutions. Its Capital Partners arm covers corporate advisory and banking, wealth and investment management, plus private equity work for private businesses, wealthy families and institutional investors. The firm describes itself as a private partnership without public shareholders, which it says allows it to focus on the relationships, technology and people it believes will support clients' long-term success. It publishes regular market commentary, including titles such as Mind on the Markets Quarterly and InvestorView, covering topics from global fund distribution to macroeconomic conditions such as currency and central bank policy.