Candace Browning is head of BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research, a group that provides clients and employees of Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management with top-quality investment insights and ideas, industry and company overviews and asset allocation recommendations. 

The BofA Merrill Lynch Global Research division has over 1,000 employees located across 20 countries.  The team provides recommendations on more than 3,300 stocks and 960 credits globally as well as economic forecasts for nearly 60 countries and recommendations on 40 currencies.

From February 2003 to November 2008, Browning served as head of the Global Research Securities and Economics group at Merrill Lynch.  She was named head of Global Research of the combined Bank of America Merrill Lynch organizations post the merger of the two firms. Under her leadership the group has won top awards in external polls globally.

The group was named No. 1 in the 2011 Institutional Investor All-Asia, All-China and All-Japan Research Team surveys; No. 2 in the 2011 All-Emerging Europe Fixed Income and Equity, All-Latin America and All-America Equity surveys; and No. 3 in the 2011 All-America Fixed Income, All-Brazil and All-Europe surveys.  The team was also named winner of the 2011 Emerging Markets’ Magazine EM Research Global Award and Latin America Research award.

Previous to her position as head of Global Research, Browning served as director of Equity Research for the Americas region, with responsibility for all research coverage in Canada, the United States and Latin America.  From June 2000 to November 2001, she was based in London, serving as deputy director, Global Research Product, Pan-Europe, for Merrill Lynch EMEA Research Management.

Before joining research management, Browning covered the airline industry in the United States and was ranked in Institutional Investor's all-star analyst survey for 17 consecutive years.  She was president of the Society of Airline Analysts and was a member of the board of directors of the Wings Club, an airline and aerospace industry club.