Stephen

I work in the Securities division executing global futures for our institutional clients. They use the product for a variety of strategies including portfolio hedging, transferring investment expression across asset classes, managing cash flows and to speculate.

The most interesting aspect of my job is that we are one of few desks at Goldman Sachs that trade all asset classes: equity indexes, commodities, fixed income and foreign exchange. We have a bird’s eye view across the capital structure which helps us identify trends and themes that are developing in the marketplace.

Our group is very team oriented and we rely on each other for help developing trading strategies, interacting with clients and for general operational responsibilities. We work in conjunction with both the derivative and equity sales force and often identify cross marketing opportunities as well as leverage relationships.