Knight Launches Fixed Income Offering for Investment Advisors
JERSEY CITY, N.J. and GREENWICH, Conn., June 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) today announced that it has established Knight Advisor Services to provide fixed income sales, trading and research to the investment advisor community.
A team of five experienced traders and relationship managers joined Knight from Morgan Stanley to form Knight Advisor Services. Joshua B. Zucker, Managing Director, leads credit sales and trading for the group. Bohn C. Vergari is a Director in Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) sales. Joseph T. Miller, Vice President, is responsible for credit sales, and Patrick J. Moore is Vice President, broker-dealer sales. John W. Browning, Assistant Vice President, leads business development.
"Investment advisors have been left to develop their own networks of trading partners and research providers. Knight Advisor Services addresses the coverage gap by serving sophisticated investment advisors who seek competitive pricing, deep inventory and service, but who are less active or execute in smaller trade sizes than the average portfolio manager," said Gary Katcher, Executive Vice President, Head of Global Institutional Fixed Income at Knight Capital Group. "We see an opportunity to better serve this client base by combining the expertise of our new team with Knight's electronic and voice access and trading, deep resources, and broad universe of products."
Knight Advisor Services clients include RIAs and broker-dealers who serve high-net-worth investors, endowments and foundations. The team trades investment-grade corporates, municipals and Certificates of Deposit, among other fixed income securities in demand by investment advisors.
Knight Advisor Services recently launched its website, www.knightgateway.com, to provide investment advisors with desktop access to trading, research and the broader array of services offered by Knight.
Clients have voice and electronic access to multiple sources of liquidity, including 300 broker-dealers through an electronic platform, more than 2,300 institutional clients of Knight, and some of the largest trading desks on the Street. These sales and trading capabilities are complemented by credit-specific research, market commentary and access to Knight's intellectual capital.
"Knight Advisor Services helps our clients meet the growing demand for fixed income expertise as the U.S. population ages and more investors shift from wealth generation to preservation," Mr. Zucker said. "At the same time, the credit crisis reinforced the need for our clients to differentiate the portfolios they build with fixed income allocations. More advisors are seeking to increase transparency and reduce costs by managing fixed income themselves as opposed to outsourcing to funds. We have the flexibility to meet the needs of advisors who seek greater control over their fixed income portfolios."
Knight Advisor Services is a division of Knight Libertas LLC. Brokerage and execution services are provided by Knight Libertas LLC, member of SIPC.
Biographies
Joshua B. Zucker
Managing Director, Knight Advisor Services
Knight Libertas LLC
Joshua Zucker, Managing Director, leads credit trading and sales for Knight Advisor Services.
Mr. Zucker built Morgan Stanley's Special Situations Group, focusing on providing the top fixed income-producing financial advisors with trade ideas and execution. He has more than 12 years experience in credit trading and sales overall.
Josh has a bachelor of arts in history from Williams College.
Bohn C. Vergari
Director, Knight Advisor Services
Knight Libertas LLC
Bohn Vergari is a Director of RIA sales for Knight Advisor Services.
Mr. Vergari joined Knight after 12 years in dealer and RIA fixed income sales at Morgan Stanley. Bohn managed Morgan Stanley's internal service desk for fixed income-producing financial advisors. He also was responsible for launching the Municipal Dealer Sales Group to provide the broker-dealer community with access to the firm's municipal inventory.
Bohn has a bachelor of arts in history from Williams College.
Joseph T. Miller
Vice President, Knight Advisor Services
Knight Libertas LLC
Joseph Miller is Vice President, Knight Advisor Services, in credit sales.
Mr. Miller spent seven years at Morgan Stanley where he assisted in providing fixed income sales coverage to the top advisors within the Morgan Stanley retail brokerage force.
Joe has a bachelor of arts in finance from George Washington University.
Patrick J. Moore
Vice President, Knight Advisor Services
Knight Libertas LLC
Patrick Moore is Vice President, Knight Advisor Services, with responsibility for broker-dealer sales.
Mr. Moore has more than 12 years of experience in fixed income sales. Working for Morgan Stanley in New York, San Francisco and the U.K., he assisted the firm's broker-dealers and private bank clients with fixed income solutions.
Pat has a bachelor of arts in economics from Williams College.
John W. Browning
Assistant Vice President, Knight Advisor Services
Knight Libertas LLC
John Browning, Assistant Vice President, oversees business development for Knight Advisor Services.
Mr. Browning joined Knight from Morgan Stanley where he led business development efforts for the RIA Fixed Income Sales Desk. Previously, he worked as an Investment Grade Credit Analyst with J&W Seligman until 2008. Jack has more than seven years in wealth management sales, including positions at Oppenheimer & Co. and at UBS.
Jack has a bachelor of arts in political science from the University of Vermont and a master of finance from The New School University.
About Knight
Knight Capital Group, Inc. (NYSE Euronext: KCG) is a global financial services firm that provides market access and trade execution services across multiple asset classes to buy- and sell-side firms. Knight's hybrid market model features complementary electronic and voice trade execution services in global equities and fixed income as well as foreign exchange, futures and options. The firm is the leading source of liquidity in U.S. equities by share volume. Knight also offers capital markets services to corporate issuers. Knight is headquartered in Jersey City, NJ with a growing global presence across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. For more information, please go to www.knight.com.
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