Welcome to our exchanges of Goldman Sachs markets update for April 17th.

Each week we check in with leaders across the firm to get a quick take on what they're watching in markets.

I'm Jake Stewart, Global Head of Corporate Communications

here at the firm, and today's guest is Meena Flynn

of our Consumer and Investment Management Division.

Welcome to the program, Meena.

Thanks, Jay, thanks for having me.

Give us a quick intro and explain what you do here at the firm.

Sure.

I've been with the firm for 20 years and I oversee our global market solutions group within the Consumer and Investment Management Division.

And this group partners with private clients and family offices to really deliver the entire capabilities of the firm to help them meet their objectives.

Those objectives are very far ranging given what the client base is and

luckily we have a big toolkit inside the firm to be able to pull from.

But we provide really customized advisory, structuring, and

execution services across asset classes to these clients. We also manage structured

investment and equity options strategies to complement portfolios that they have and then also we provide access to private company investment offerings in both the equity and credit markets. It's a very

intellectually stimulating role. Our clients that we work with have the long-term

permanent capital and they really seek out the best risk adjuster for term

opportunities across all markets. really seek out the best risk adjuster for turn opportunities

across all markets.

And as we know, those opportunities regularly

change based on macroeconomic events.

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