NEW YORK, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Merrill Lynch today announced that Oren
Cohen, the top-rated analyst for High Yield Media/Broadcasting & Publishing,
has joined the firm's High Yield Credit research team as senior media analyst.
Mr. Cohen will head the firm's High Yield media research team, and
coordinate High Yield media and telecommunications research efforts globally.
Since 1995, Mr. Cohen served as senior media analyst and director of the
media/telecom group at Bear Stearns. Previously, he had served as a senior
analyst at Salomon Brothers and as a commercial lending officer at Royal Bank
of Canada. A longstanding member of the Institutional Investor All-America
Fixed Income Research team, Mr. Cohen was rated number one in the High Yield
Media/Broadcasting & Publishing category and number two in the High Yield
Media/Cable & Satellite category in 1999.
"We are delighted that the leading media analyst has joined us to expand
Merrill Lynch's coverage in this area," said Donald M. Ullmann, Managing
Director of Merrill Lynch's Global Fixed Income Research Group. "Oren will
help Merrill Lynch build an even stronger High Yield Research team."
"It is an honor and a pleasure to work with Merrill Lynch's number one
rated Fixed Income research team*," said Mr. Cohen. "Working with the
research team to expand the firm's global media coverage is an exciting
opportunity."
A native of New York City, Mr. Cohen holds an MBA in Finance from Wharton
and a BA in Economics from Columbia. He will be based in New York.
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading financial management and
advisory companies with office in 44 countries and total client assets
exceeding $1.5 trillion. As an investment bank, it is the top global
underwriter and market maker of debt and equity securities and a leading
strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals
worldwide. Through its Asset Management Group, the company is one of the
world's largest managers of financial assets, which total approximately
$514 billion.
* (Institutional Investor 1999 Fixed Income Research poll.)
SOURCE Merrill Lynch
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CONTACT:
Pam Snook, Media Relations, 212-449-6736,
pam_snook@ml.com; or Oren Cohen, Oren_Cohen@ml.com, both of
Merrill Lynch & Co.
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