Investment Banking

Equity Trading & Derivatives

Sal. Oppenheim has been developed from one of the biggest trading houses for German equity to one of the leading specialists in equity derivatives. This development has been determined by the factor that the division has pursued a dynamic trading approach to meet the changing market conditions and therefore to structure and offer the optimal products for its clients. Many new products, like WIN-WIN-certificates or MULTI-Products, prove the leadership of the Sal. Oppenheim Group in financial innovation. Focus is laid on:

Equity Trading

• Trade in all DAX, DJ Euro Stoxx 50 and second-tier stocks, and in selected US, Japanese, eastern European, Austrian and Swiss equities
• Block trading for institutional clients, especially for small- and mid-caps
• Among the top banks for equity derivatives in Germany based on the successful retail derivatives business and innovative structured products

Equity Lending

• Equity lending and equity financing
• Value-optimised utilisation of our institutional and wealthy private clients’ existing equity portfolios

Structured Products/ Institutional Derivatives

• Around 20,000 certificates, reverse convertibles and leverage products from the various risk classes
• Continual product innovations: MULTI, TWIN-WIN, VICTORY, EASY-EXPRESS, Bonus certificates
• PROTECT family: particular focus on capital protection level with equity and index products
• Offering in Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and Luxemburg
• Off-exchange trading for clients from direct banks, via electronic trading systems
• Among the top 5 German banks for derivatives
• Founding member of the Derivatives Forum, which aims to popularise derivatives

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Excellent performance in all major rankings

Since 2003, our Equity Trading & Derivatives team has won around 30 awards at almost every international award ceremony. We see this as an official confirmation of our work, and at the same time as a challenge to pursue our sophisticated approach in the future too, to ensure that your assets benefit from our competence.

Retail Derivative Products

• Among the leading issuers of certificates, warrants and reverse convertibles based on turnover
• Our product range includes over 20,000 securities from all risk classes
• Public offering of derivative securities in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria (to the derivatives portal).

Quantitative Research

• Models for pricing and hedging of equity derivatives and structured products
• Various cooperations with universities for research projects

Recognised innovative derivative products for German-speaking countries

Our derivatives portal gives investors the opportunity to make profit regardless of market development. Our many product innovations in the past, such as PROTECT-Bonus and TWIN-WIN certificates, earned us many awards as best issuer in German-speaking countries.
To the derivatives portal

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