Investment Products

Fortis' trading desks, high-quality research and efficient back-office services allow us to provide you with outstanding advice and solutions tailored to your organisation's precise investment requirements.

Our clients

Investors from around the world trust Fortis' expert traders, dealers and sales professionals to assist them with sound advice, the full spectrum of financial products, as well as swift and accurate execution of their transactions. Fortis' investment clients include every type of organisation, with major customers in the following categories:

• asset, portfolio and fund managers 
• insurance companies and pension funds 
• treasurers 
• banks and central banks 
• corporates 
• public entities

How we can help you

Operating from local presences in a large number of markets, Fortis' specialised teams can help you manage your investment portfolio. These teams, each composed of native speakers of the relevant local languages, offer you access to all international capital markets and to every kind of financial instrument, including:

• bonds (covered, emerging market, government, corporate, (non) investment grade) 
• strips, floating rate notes and perpetuals 
• asset and mortgage backed securities (ABS and MBS) 
• structured credit products (FTDs, CDS, CLO, etc.) 
• options and swaps 
• structured IRD products (tailor-made solutions) 
• private placements (plain vanilla and structured) 
• equities

Our product specialists do more than sell – they provide you with expert counsel for your investment decisions. They are supported by our renowned in-house structuring and research teams, which can provide you with cutting edge economic, credit and quantitative research, as well as strategy.

Fortis Merchant Banking: the right choice

We are a leaders in numerous investment product areas. For example, Fortis is a primary dealer and market maker in numerous European government bonds, and is consistently ranked in the top ten of the Bloomberg bond-trading platform. And, of course, we enable anytime, anywhere trading via state-of-the-art internal and external electronic trading systems, such as Bloomberg, Tradeweb and Bondvision, to name but a few. We are the leading ABS/MBS house in the Benelux and amongst the top ten players in European ABS/MBS in Europe.