FPG Equities

FPG Equities is a client-focused full-service sales, trading and capital markets platform.

  • Cash Equities
  • Electronic Trading
  • Equity Derivatives
  • Convertibles
  • Prime Services
  • Corporate Access

Cash Equities

Equities has been the core FPG. Our experienced sales and trading professionals deliver high-touch services to help clients develop investing strategies and execute stock transactions in exchanges across the globe. We act as agent, principal or market maker to provide clients with high execution quality in varying liquidity situations. Our experienced sales specialists across sectors provide clients with sector expertise, insights, execution guidance, and bespoke client offerings. FPG co-branded partnerships provide clients with additional access to ID market- research and execution.

Electronic Trading

FPG Electronic Trading is backed by a global team of professionals located in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Specifically designed for today’s fragmented and rapidly changing market environment by our industry leading development team, FPG provides our clients with innovative electronic sales and trading solutions partnered with local expertise through Algorithmic Strategies and Program Trading.

Product Highlights

Global Algorithmic

  • We offer a global electronic trading platform with algorithmic access spanning 45 countries and over 100 liquidity destinations across the Americas, EMEA and APAC
  • We have a full suite of liquidity seeking and benchmark tracking algorithms working to minimize market impact, improve trading performance and add consistency to the trading process
  • We offer client-focused integration and an open FIX architecture supporting access to all leading OMS/EMS providers
  • Our modern infrastructure provides us maximum flexibility to develop and implement for clients the custom strategies and workflow solutions necessary in today’s global trading environment

Global Portfolio Trading

  • We have a 24×6 fully integrated platform with dedicated sales and trading specialists located in U.S. and UK.
  • Comprehensive advisory services are available for complex portfolio restructurings and cash flows
  • We provide active risk management throughout the life cycle of a portfolio by utilizing pre-trade, real-time, and post-trade analytics and custom alerts via our proprietary Portfolio Monitor tool

Equity Derivatives

FPG’ Equity Derivatives and ETF desk is comprised of derivatives traders, ETF traders, salespeople, and quants, including a dedicated Structured Products team with 20+ years of experience. We offer a full-service coverage model, providing clients with market color and market intelligence, access to FPG Equity Research and Corporate Access teams, and customized client solutions. FPG Event Driven Derivatives franchise captures significant market share in all event situations giving us an axe in pricing and allowing us to trade in size.

U.S. Equity Options

  • Provides liquidity to customers across single stock, ETF, index, sector, flex and over-the-counter options
  • Offers OTC trading in Listed Lookalikes, Variance Swaps, Put-Call Combos, OTC Forwards, and Light Exotics
  • Distributes daily content with pre-market, end of day and intraday color on single stock, event driven, and broader market themes. Daily color focuses on market positioning, long and short gamma set-ups, and any event driven or macro situations.
  • Produces a macro newsletter focusing on cross asset market themes and cross asset correlation highlighting any actionable ideas for either hedging or thematic views
  • Facilitates over 40% of U.S. Equity Options customer flow as principal with firm capital
  • Ranked Top 10 in U.S. Listed Options

U.S. Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF)

  • Extensive expertise in providing principal facilitation, capital commitment and agency execution across the majority of US-listed products
  • Engaged in client advisory including index and passive management trends, client portfolio rebalancing, transition needs and portfolio hedge construction
  • Full Index and ETF capabilities including Listed Equity ETFs, Sector ETFs, International ETFs, Volatility Products and Index Options
  • Strong liquidity provider, even outside of traditional 9:30-4:00 pm EST market hours

Convertibles

FPG is recognized as a top firm in sales, trading, issuance, and analysis of convertible securities. FPG Global Convertibles team is comprised of more than 30 sales professionals, traders, and analysts, averaging over 15 years of experience building long-term relationships with institutional investors and hedge funds from various locations across North America, Europe, and Asia. Globally, FPG trades in over 250 different issues and maintains active relationships with more than 200 institutional and corporate clients, with a focus on providing unparalleled client service and attention. FPG European business is a market leading operation, serving clients with vast experience and expertise within the convertibles space.

FPG Convertibles Group works with our Equities and Fixed Income divisions to provide unique investment opportunities to clients. We have acted as a book runner for deals ranging from small private placements to $1 billion deals. FPG incorporates a cutting-edge asset class platform for pricing and analysis for all convertible securities across multiple regions, currencies, and structures. The platform offers flexibility in analyzing baskets and individual securities, caters for mass and bespoke individual needs, and stores long term historical data sets for analytics, trends, and context investigation. We have a dedicated desk strategist focused on Qualitative and Quantitative opportunities, providing clients with daily market commentary and detailed credit driven trading strategies.

Prime Services

Prime Brokerage

FPG Prime Brokerage is a gateway for hedge funds to access the firm’s global platform. By creating connectivity to Banking, Research, Sales and Trading, and Corporate Access for our clients, we seek to help funds successfully build their business and create alpha over business cycles. Prime Brokerage provides a full-service offering including financing, business consulting and capital introduction services, a best-in-class technology platform, and an outsourced trading solution for both start-up and existing managers. Our platform is fully self-clearing and provides global access to over 40 markets. In addition, Global Prime Services has achieved the SSAE Type II reporting standard.

The FPG Prime Brokerage team has personnel based in New York, Dallas and London. The team provides clients with access to resources offered by FPG Global Equities Platform and services a range of Hedge Funds, Family Offices and Long Only Asset Managers across their investment, research, trading, and portfolio financing needs. Clients have access to Reg T and Portfolio Margin Financing solutions in more than 40 markets globally, as well as multi-custodial optionality.

Securities Finance

FPG Global Securities Finance team consists of over 25 professionals providing significant experience in all regions, with offices in New York, London and Dallas. Our offering comprises three key components. 1) A Global Swap Product offers a full suite of solutions including single stock equity, custom baskets and structured funding with unrivalled expertise in Special Situations across all regions. 2) As a market leader in Securities Lending, FPG has access to $12 trillion in inventory across equities, depositary receipts and convertible bonds, including unique pools of assets not widely accessed by others. 3) A Fully Paid Lending program allowing our clients to generate additional alpha across their long portfolios. Our selective approach to adding new client partners allows us to focus on both filling orders completely and providing stable inventory and pricing.

Global Differentiators

  • Swap access across 30 markets globally
  • Our Co-branding Strategy in Asia means we are more meaningful to specialized onshore lenders and have unique access around packaged offerings and structured financing solutions
  • Market leading corporate action expertise covering rights issues, oversubscriptions, scrips, and tender offers in all regions
  • Flexible financing solutions around take building strategies and concentrated positions

Capital Intelligence

  • FPG Prime Services has combined its Strategic Content, Thought Leadership & Events, Business Consulting and Capital Introductions functions into one Capital Intelligence advisory group.
  • FPG Capital Intelligence team covers Managers, Allocators, and Vendors globally, publishes research and hosts bespoke content driven events.
  • To provide the most effective advisory function to our clients, we leverage proprietary data and information flow tools to provide a more targeted and customized experience for its clients.
  • FPG Capital Intelligence works with an array of clients across Emerging Managers and Established Hedge Funds, servicing their needs across the fund life cycle. The team spends time with allocators across all verticals to adequately understand allocator interests and make strategic introductions to our clients.
  • Clients are offered differentiated conferences, events, and summits, as well as forward looking thought leadership content, through a designated Capital Intelligence representative.

Client Services, Trading & Reporting

  • The FPG Client Service team has over 20 client service representatives in our New York and Dallas offices with a collective average of 10 years of experience.
  • Every new account receives assigned coverage, beginning with the onboarding experience and lasting throughout the lifecycle of the fund. FPG  onboarding and client service teams provide our clients with the highest touch service and operational expertise.
  • The FPG Prime Brokerage Technology team offers clients a convenient and flexible electronic trading system with global execution capabilities and a full algo suite with access to multiple liquidity sources. The team is committed to providing clients with an efficient trading system and report customization.
  • Clients receive access to FPG Portfolio Accounting and Reporting system which offers over 250 daily reports, customizable reporting capabilities, PnL tools, risk analytics, and an order management system.

Corporate Access

Let FPG take your show on the road

FPG Corporate Access team acts as a global strategic partner to create, cross-sell, and prioritize interactions between management executives, industry experts, and institutional investors across the platform. The team works alongside our Equity Research, Equity Sales, Equity Trading and Investment Banking teams to provide clients with optimal opportunities to meet with companies and experts to enhance their investment decisions. The team, comprised of 20 experienced professionals globally, sources “untapped” key opinion leaders and experts in each sector. We host company marketing trips, tours and bespoke trips, and conferences and summits across the U.S., EMEA and Asia. FPG sector-based approach to Corporate Access allows our team to create timely thematic content for the buy-side clients across every major industry vertical.

Global Differentiators:

  • Offers a year-round series of summits focused on data science and artificial intelligence
  • Sole sell-side sponsor of BattleFin events in New York, London and Dallas
  • One of the few sell-side banks that hosts 2 Global Healthcare Conferences. Our New York Healthcare Conference is the largest on the East Coast with over 300 companies. Our London conference is one of the largest of its kind in Europe with more than 200 companies.
  • Hosts a conference and bus tour in Tel Aviv with 30 public and 25 private companies, 40 global investors, and distinguished keynote speakers, with more than 375 total attendees
  • Hosts 2 Global Consumer Conferences, one in Nantucket and a second in San Francisco, which include a breadth of companies from retail, luxury and staples sectors

Capabilities

  • Strategic pre-roadshow investor analysis customized to determine optimal target cities and investors
  • Plan, schedule, and manage non-deal, deal, and reverse roadshows, and investor access events globally
  • Experienced marketing coordinators are your central point of contact for the duration of your event
  • A flexible program dedicated to the interests of management with a Sales & Trading platform reach of over 2,900 institutional clients
  • Unique insights into buy-side investment styles and market color on your company directly from FPG Sales & Trading
  • Dedicated FPG hedge fund relationship group that has in-depth knowledge of funds’ investment approach and interacts regularly with the hedge fund community
  • Coordinate FPG participation and sponsorship of industry conferences to increase client interaction, facilitate information flow, and gain intelligence
  • Timely investor follow-up to provide management with feedback from all non-deal events
  • Sector-focused conferences globally

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