Successful financial institutions realize that in today's environment it is not enough just to manage the asset side of the balance sheet. Today's clients are as concerned about properly structuring liabilities as they are about providing investment income and liquidity.

The Financial Institutions Strategies Group at Ryan Beck offers a full range of products and services to assist a bank or thrift in managing their balance sheets.

These include:

• Asset and mortgage-backed securities
• Government and agency debt
• Liability restructuring strategies
• Municipal bonds
• Purchase and sales of whole loan packages
• Trust preferreds
• Wholesale funding transactions through the origination of brokered deposits
  

We offer our institutional clients our fixed income expertise, developed through our thorough understanding of the fixed income universe, and our detailed knowledge of our institutional clients' needs and objectives. We actively make markets in a wide array of both taxable and tax-advantaged securities. Ryan Beck's institutional sales force works closely with our fixed income trading desks to provide you with the most timely, competitive offerings to help you manage your company's fixed income portfolio.

Contact information:

Patrick Sullivan

Manager
Phone: 973.549.4345 Fax: 973.549.4334