Cowen's Institutional Sales and Trading business consists of more than 130 professionals servicing both Equity and Fixed Income clients.
Our belief in building out our platform starting with our "core competency" of research is one that resonates throughout our organization.
Cowen's sales and trading execution platform is structured around our key verticals:
· Healthcare
· TMT
· REITS & Financials
· Aerospace and Defense
· Consumer
· Alternative Energy
Our sectorized trading desk provides our institutional clients with execution and product knowledge of the highest quality. We consistently rank among the Top 15 investment banks according to Autex Block Data.
Cowen's approach to the Institutional Sales and Trading business is one where we look to be regarded as product specialists from research to the end point of execution.
Cowen's sector based approach provides our clients with access to a trading desk groomed to think critically. Our clients view our traders and sales traders as product specialists.
We are a registered market maker in over 1,500 domestic equity securities and are backed by a highly integrated state of the art electronic trading platform.
Our trading team professionals provide our clients with liquidity to provide "best execution" and offer multiple execution venues in both high and low touch areas.
Sales
Cowen's Institutional Salesforce is comprised of approximately 50 professionals with offices in
We have also implemented a highly successful "Middle Markets" strategy, with some satellite offices in
Cowen's Salesforce consistently scores well in Institutional surveys and is regarded as "best of breed" particularly in Healthcare and Aerospace and Defense. Both Institutional Investor and
EDCU (Equity Derivatives and Convertibles Unit)
Cowen's research universe is comprised mostly in the growth arena and as such our idea generation is perfect for the derivatives market.
Many of our clients take our specialized research and construct investment theses using various combinations of stocks, options, convertible securities and corporate debt.
Our specialized options desk provides both an execution and idea generation venue for our clients in the fastest growing market in the world.
We have a highly experienced convertible securities sales and trading effort which works closely with both institutional cus
Fixed Income trading and distribution has been a new addition to our traditional equity platform. Given our clients demand for cross asset class knowledge, expertise and execution capability, we have seen significant increase in inquiries from our traditional accounts regarding high yield and high grade debt.
Electronic/Portfolio trading and ETF platform
Cowen has a full suite of execution platforms which includes an advanced algorithmic suite and state of the art Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) both of which drive our high quality Program Trading execution capabilities. In concert with the technological developments in this field, we have also expanded and positioned ourselves as an active market maker and solutions provider with a highly sophisticated ETF execution platform.
Electronic Market Making
Corporate Access
Our Corporate Access Team works in coordination with our events team, Cowen's Equity Research analysts and many issuers to provide companies and clients a very full blown corporate access experience. Our team provides our clients both in the
Our view on corporate access is that it is yet another service that can be provided in conjunction with the overall suite of offerings and is looked at as very much an integral part of Cowen's product offering. Our team of experienced professionals has many years of engaging clients and is second to none when providing logistics to ensure the complete success of our events.
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