{"id":10275,"date":"2022-03-29T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T10:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/?p=10275"},"modified":"2022-05-17T07:01:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:01:54","slug":"merrill-edge-self-directed-best-ease-of-use-mobile-broker-global-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/north-america\/2022\/merrill-edge-self-directed-best-ease-of-use-mobile-broker-global-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrill Edge Self Directed: Best Ease of Use Mobile Broker Global 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10273\" src=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MerrilEdgeSelf-Directed.jpg\" alt=\"Merrill logo\" width=\"500\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MerrilEdgeSelf-Directed.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cfi.co\/awards\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/MerrilEdgeSelf-Directed-300x87.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In barely two decades the world\u2019s banking industry, in response to rapid technological advances and the growing sophistication of consumer demand, has changed beyond recognition \u2013 and Merrill Edge Self\u2011Directed a self-directed electronic investing platform, and a subsidiary of Bank of America, is leading the field in providing cutting-edge and efficient mobile investment tools. Merrill Edge Self\u2011Directed launched in 2010, responded quickly to investor trends to seek out sustainable and eco-friendly investments. Merrill has developed applications which provide a mobile gateway to individual customers, allowing access to ideas, and helping tailor portfolios to clients\u2019 own values. Merrill, a leader in Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) investing, is focussed on sustainable and impact investing, presenting customers with access to a mass of information to guide decisions. Individual customers are able, with a few clicks, to delve into the background of companies to check operations are in line with their own social values. Its latest apps, designed to be uncluttered and intuitive, help clients choose new investments, or evaluate existing portfolios, and can be used to drill down into layers of information, providing ESG scores for businesses, up-to-date insights, and access to the analysis instruments of MSCI, the global provider of index reports. Merrill advisors are also on hand, via phone or chat features, to give advice. This ease of access, says the company, means that users don\u2019t have to be research experts. The Cfi.co judges have no hesitation in presenting Merrill Edge Self\u2011Directed with the 2022 award Best Ease of Use Mobile Broker Global.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In barely two decades the world\u2019s banking industry, in response to rapid technological advances and the growing sophistication of consumer demand, has changed beyond recognition \u2013 and Merrill Edge Self\u2011Directed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,20,11,8],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-10275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","category-exchanges-brokers","category-finance","category-north-america","tag-esg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.6 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merrill Edge Self Directed: Best Ease of Use Mobile Broker Global 2022 - 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