Equity Risk

Whether you need tailor-made instruments to minimize the effects of your company's equity exposure or you are looking for products to help leverage the equity markets for investment purposes, our experienced derivative structuring and trading teams are ideally positioned to serve you.

Our clients

Fortis Merchant Banking's customers for equity hedging and derivative trading are necessarily diverse, but the majority of our clients are other financial institutions looking to provide for their own customer portfolios. Among others, we are a sound financial partner for:

• retail and private banks 
• asset managers 
• insurance and securities companies 
• medium-sized and large corporates 
• hedge and pension funds

How we can help you

After an in-depth look at your organisation's specific situation, our dedicated teams of equity derivative specialists can develop a strategy – and precisely customised instruments – to hedge against the exposures you face.
For those seeking attractive investment tools or reliable research, we can create ways for you to leverage, play or get exposure in the equity markets, depending on your needs. We support your organisation throughout its investment process with made-to-measure services and with a team that is able to execute your trades on the best possible market terms.
In addition, if needed, Fortis can issue public retail notes in collaboration with our distribution partners.

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

Chief among our strengths are the innovative ideas and strategies we bring to the table, as well as the access we can offer to major markets around the world via Fortis' large network of international presences. We can offer you a broad panel of products at consistent prices, all backed up with high added-value service – fast response time and execution, as well as consistent and focused secondary market support.