Goldman Sachs 2003 Annual Report Trading and Principal Investments
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Trading and Principal Investments

Trading and Principal Investments facilitates customer transactions with a diverse group of corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals and takes proprietary positions through market making in, and trading of, fixed income and equity products, currencies, commodities and derivatives on such products. In addition, we engage in floor-based and electronic market making as a specialist on U.S. equities and options exchanges and we clear customer transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide. In connection with our merchant banking and other investment activities, we make principal investments directly and through funds that we raise and manage.

Our Trading and Principal Investments segment is divided into three components: Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities, Equities and Principal Investments.

fixed income, currency and commodities (ficc)
FICC makes markets in and trades interest rate and credit products, mortgage-backed securities and loans, currencies and commodities, structures and enters into a wide variety of derivative transactions, and engages in proprietary trading. FICC's principal products are: commodities and commodity derivatives, including our power generation business; credit products, including investment-grade corporate securities, high-yield securities, bank loans, municipal securities, credit derivatives and emerging market debt; currencies and currency derivatives; interest rate products, including interest rate derivatives and global government securities; money market instruments, including the matched book; and mortgage-backed securities and loans.

equities
Equities makes markets in, acts as a specialist for, and trades equities and equity-related products, structures and enters into equity derivative transactions, and engages in proprietary trading. We also execute and clear customer transactions on major stock, options and futures exchanges worldwide.

principal investments
Principal Investments primarily represents net revenues from our merchant banking investments, including the increased share of the income and gains derived from our merchant banking funds when the return on a fund's investments exceeds certain threshold returns (merchant banking overrides), as well as unrealized gains or losses on our investment in the convertible preferred stock of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.
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