Our equities jobs, including jobs for equities analysts, salespeople, traders and more, are all covered within this sector.
A company's assets once all its debts have been paid off are called equities. Stocks and shares - also called equities - grant people who purchase them partial ownership over the company's assets.
Historically, equities have been traded on big international stock exchanges, like the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, the Shanghai Stock Exchange or Deutsche Börse. At present, while they are still traded there, a growing amount of equities trading is now taking place off-exchanges, in so-called "dark pools." This is because buyers and sellers of equities often prefer to trade anonymously and privately to avoid influencing the price of stocks with large orders to buy or sell.
Many different companies recruit equities staff, including large international banks, brokerage houses, agency traders, asset management firms and hedge funds.
The equities salesperson's job is to keep in contact with and win clients, whether they are rich private individuals, pension funds or other institutional investors, and to advise them on when they should buy or sell particular stocks.
Salespeople then get in contact with equities traders who carry out the trade on behalf of the client. In the simplest sense, traders act as market makers. Market makers quote clients both buy and sell prices for any stocks the client is interested in, while making a profit from the bid-offer spread. This is the difference between the price at which they buy the stock and the price at which they sell it to the client.
Trading cash or simple equity products usually now takes place electronically with automatic trading systems matching buyers and sellers. A large number of equities trades are now determined by algorithmic trading systems which use mathematical formulae dictating the best investment strategy. Despite all these systems, there is still a need for human intelligence. When large block trades are being placed, for example, execution traders may need to break these trades up into smaller and more manageable chunks to get the best price available in the market.
Sales traders working in equities are really a hybrid between salespeople and traders. This is because they first recommend products to their clients and then continue to execute the trades resulting from that advice.
Salespeople are also needed to sell electronic trading capabilities. Banks, for example, hire individuals to pitch to clients for their direct market access (DMA), or electronic trading systems.
Jobs in equities can also be for IT programmers, quants and equity researchers, all of whom may be required to support an organization's equity sales and trading capability.
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| Senior High Frequency Trading Systems Architect & Developer | Not Disclosed Competitive with experience | New York City, NY | 18 Jun 13 |
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We are a small sophisticated proprietary trading/hedge fund firm specializing in global equity strategies and ...
| FIX Connectivity Specialist - Electronic Trading | Futures Group IT, LLC $145k-$180k base + bonus | New York City, NY | 18 Jun 13 |
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Leading Investment Bank seeks FIX Connectivity Specialist to lead initiatives in external client onboarding wi...
| Director of Institutional Equity Sales Trading | Comprehensive Recruiting $ OPEN | Chicago, IL | 18 Jun 13 |
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Director of Institutional Equity Sales Trading- Chicago Strong Institutional Client relationships, 10 plus ...
| Sr. Buyside Healthcare Analyst | Comprehensive Recruiting $ Competitive | New York City, NY | 18 Jun 13 |
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Fundamental Equity Analysis within Biotech, Pharma, and Med Device Sectors. Prefer PhD in Life Sciences or an...
| Quantitative Researcher/Data Scientist - working with a key team in an established prop trading firm | Campbell North up to $200,000 base plus 100% first year... | New York City, NY | 18 Jun 13 |
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I am currently working with one of the most exciting quantitative trading firms in the US. They are at the fo...
| Senior Quant Strategist | OCG - Obtain Consulting Group Competitive | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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We are currently working with a leading Tier One Bank who are looking to strengthen their Equity Strategist de...
| VP, Product Control and Governance | Not Disclosed Base Salary Plus Bonus | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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A top-tier wealth management firm is looking to hire a VP, Product Control and Governance with 5 - 10+ years o...
| Institutional Equity Sales Associate | Not Disclosed Highly Competitive Base Salary and Bonus | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Top Tier Investment Bank seek an Institutional Equity Sales Associate to join thier team. Will consider: Inve...
| Investment Analyst | Not Disclosed Competitive | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Analysts support the portfolio managers in financial analyst and trading activities, during which time they ar...
| Associate, Equity Research Paper and Packaging - New York, NY | Key Bank Competitive | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Our most valuable assets are people just like you. Join us at Key!
| .NET UI Developer | Futures Group IT, LLC $150k-$180k base plus bonus | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Front Office Trading desk is seeking C#/UI Developer with Options Pricing experience for their Global Equity D...
| Experienced equity index quantitative HFT trader | Carlton Senior Appointments Competitive | Chicago, IL | 17 Jun 13 |
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Opportunity for a profitable equity derivatives trader to run a group within a highly successful high frequenc...
| Director of Marketing (Taft-Hartley) | Comprehensive Recruiting 250,000 | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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A multi-billion dollar asset manager headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the US is adding a senio...
| Equity Research Analyst | Comprehensive Recruiting $ Open | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Cover large cap Media and Internet sectors. Established following on the buyside.
| Quantitative Researcher | Axiom Group Competitive Base + Bonus | Chicago, IL | 17 Jun 13 |
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Global HFT group is seeking a Quantitative Researcher. Our client's atmosphere is comprised of people committ...
| Investment Officer II - JOB #00828 | Calpers Investments $5,831.00 - $7,087.00 Monthly | Sacramento, CA | 17 Jun 13 |
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CalPERS seeks an Investment Officer II (IO II) to work under the general direction of the Portfolio Manager (P...
| Head of Financial Engineering – MD – New York | GQR Global Markets $200,000 - $240,000 + bonus | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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We are looking for a senior quant that has significant management experience to head of a 25 person quant anal...
| Junior Quantitative Electronic Trading Execution Associate for US Hedge Fund – New York or Connecticut | GQR Global Markets $80'000 to $120'000 USD + Bonus | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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A US hedge fund is seeking a Quantitative Electronic Trading Execution Associate within its cross asset tradin...
| Senior Financial Business Development Executive | Not Disclosed DOE | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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National Trading Firm Headquartered in New York City is looking for a Senior Financial Business Development Ex...
| AVP Equities Compliance Advisory | The Forum Group Base salary, bonus and benefits. | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Our client a global investment bank, seeks to add to it''s on the trading desk compliance advisory team.
| VP Compliance Advisory Electronic Trading | The Forum Group Base salary, bonus and excellent benefit... | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Our client, a global investment bank in Manhattan is seeking a top tier, real times Equities Advisory Complian...
| C++/Linux Engineer - Technology Start-Up | Futures Group IT, LLC $125k-$150k base plus guaranteed bonus | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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C++/Linux Engineer to assist in the development of a revolutionary product for the Investment Banking communit...
| Trading Systems Support Analyst | Futures Group IT, LLC Based on years of experience | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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If interested, send resumes to mkonikowski@futuresgroupit.com or call Matt at 212-244-4220 for more informatio...
| Equity Research Associate - Life Insurance | Macquarie Competitive | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Opportunities exist for Research Associates to join our team in New York
| Equity Research Associate - Media | Macquarie Competitive | New York City, NY | 17 Jun 13 |
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Macquarie Securities Group seeks a Research Associate with experience in the Media sector.
| Equity Research Associate | Principal Financial Group Competitive | Des Moines, IA | 14 Jun 13 |
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Principal Global Equities is a bottom-up, hybrid equity manager, integrating the best aspects of both quantita...
| Program Trading/ETF Trader | Deutsche Bank - US market | Jacksonville, FL | 14 Jun 13 |
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This role is with the Equity Trading desk of CIB Center.
| Quantitative Researcher / Market Risk Factor | Martingale International Search, Inc base + bonus | New York City, NY | 14 Jun 13 |
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World Class hedge fund, headquartered in New York City, is seeking a Quantitative Researcher for their Portfol...
| Pan European Sales | Janikin Rooke Competitive | New York City, NY | 14 Jun 13 |
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Top tier global house looking to add a pan European equity sales person to their NY desk.
| l/s Equity Hedge Fund - Financial Services Analyst | Mirage Recruitment Extremely Competitive | New York City, NY | 14 Jun 13 |
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Circa $5bn equity l/s Hedge Fund is now looking for an extremely accomplished Analyst to focus on the Financia...