Key decisions should be made on the basis of knowledge and experience. This applies in particular in today's financial world and with respect to investment issues. The critical success factors here are the careful compilation and fast and targeted transfer of knowledge. Oppenheim Research GmbH rises to this challenge by focussing its analyses on the Bank's products, ensuring that information is processed and distributed efficiently via a modern platform.

With a total of 76 employees in Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Zurich, and since 2006, also in Vienna, Oppenheim Research GmbH is a competence centre for the Bank and a leading research company in the German-speaking world. Research is divided into five areas: Primary Analysis, which focuses on institutional business, Private Banking Research, Equity Investment Analysis, which concentrates on asset management, Quantitative Analysis and Economic Analysis, which provides support to all areas. Research focuses on the systematic generation and fast and targeted transfer of knowledge, which provides a basis of decision for many activities within the Bank.