Our Businesses
Cowen and Company
Nearly 90 years of growth through bull and bear markets is a testament to our commitment to excellence in research, trading and investment banking.
Investment Banking: Cowen is proud to lead manage major capital-raising efforts and advise on company-defining M&A transactions. Combining our transaction expertise with long- term industry relationships allows Cowen to be a leader across sectors and products.
Sales & Trading: Our clients view our traders and sales traders as product specialists. Our sector based trading approach in Aerospace & Defense, Alternative Energy, Consumer, Healthcare and TMT provides our clients with access to a trading desk groomed to think critically. Cowen’s Institutional Salesforce is regarded as “best of breed,” particularly in Healthcare and Aerospace and Defense.
Research: Our primary research focus is on proprietary information flow and good investment ideas. The focal point of our efforts is on growth sectors, where new company formation is high.
Through our affiliated businesses, we are able to provide our clients with additional support for industry-specific objectives.
Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners
Cowen Healthcare Royalty Partners manages an investment program that invests principally in
commercial-stage biopharmaceutical products and companies. CHRP seeks to invest in companies and acquires royalty interests in end-user sales of commercial-stage, or near commercial-stage medical products such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology products and medical devices. CHRP, based in
Cowen Latitude Asia
A boutique investment bank specializing in the Asia-Pacific region.
Ramius - Alternative Investment Management
Our global alternative investment management business offers a broad range of alternative investment vehicles, in hedge funds, fund of funds, real estate and cash management focused on delivering consistent returns to create long-term for our investors.
Alternative Investments: The core of Ramius' approach to investing is rigorous bottom-up, fundamental research, which seeks to find and exploit situations where we believe there is a mismatch between fundamental value and market pricing. Senior management takes a "hands-on" approach to managing key aspects of the investment process (including capital allocation to strategies, risk analysis and management and internal teamwork).
Alternative Solutions: Alternative Solution strict evaluation procedures to determine the opportunity set for each strategy, source appropriate "institutional quality" sub-managers, conduct detailed investment, operational, legal, financial and risk due diligence on each sub-manager, and utilize sophisticated qualitative and quantitative techniques to construct portfolios of those sub-managers.
Cash Management: Ramius manages cash and short term fixed income assets for corporate, municipal, not-for-profit and other institutional clients (including hedge funds). The program objectives are to preserve principal, maintain liquidity (daily) and maximize returns on investor accounts.
Real Estate: Ramius, its affiliates and operating partners have extensive expertise in the structuring, ownership, management, financing, and construction of all real estate property types.
