Equities
- Introduction
- Approach
Equities Trading
Goldman Sachs' Equities sales people and traders have been assisting corporations and governments around the world in planning investment strategies and raising capital in public and private equity markets for well over a century.
Our cash and portfolio trading capabilities include a collection of top trading tools. The investment professionals behind these tools will help customize your execution strategy. In the process, you can leverage our quantitative analysis, innovative technology and trading expertise. The result is a more efficient and well-planned approach to institutional investing.
Cash Trading
Goldman Sachs offers both the capital and the high-touch, expert service necessary to execute your transactions. Our main goal is to effectively and efficiently find a natural counterparty to our clients’ orders. However, when liquidity is not readily available, Goldman Sachs offers, and is ready to employ, its own capital to add liquidity to the market. Capital provided by Goldman Sachs can help you find liquidity in situations where it would otherwise be difficult to locate, or altogether nonexistent.
Portfolio Trading
Goldman Sachs Global Portfolio Trading offers a suite of products and services that gives our institutional clients maximum flexibility in managing their investment process. From committing capital on a global risk portfolio to simply leveraging our quantitative analyses, Goldman Sachs Global Portfolio Trading features the industry’s most complete product offering — unparalleled in both breadth and quality.
Portfolio Trading Strategies
Goldman Sachs Global Portfolio Trading offers a wide range of portfolio trading strategies classified into three distinct categories.
- Risk Trading offers institutional clients the ability to fully execute their portfolio at a single point in time by utilizing the firm’s capital. This comes in the form of Blind Principal, Disclosed Principal and Basis Trades.
- Hybrid Risk also utilizes the firm’s capital. The portfolios are struck against a forward-looking benchmark such as Guaranteed VWAP or Guaranteed Close.
- Agency uses a strategy of portfolio trading on a best-efforts basis. As a dealer, we use our market expertise and multiple liquidity sources in an effort to obtain the best reasonably available prices.
Institutional clients can customize these various strategies on a per-trade basis, even integrating a blend of strategies to optimize their trades.
Execute Portfolio Trades through: