Samuel A. Ramirez & Co., Inc. (“
Ramirez”) is a full service securities firm serving the investment needs of individuals, business owners, institutional investors and government agencies. Founded in 1971, Ramirez offers professional services focusing on Wealth Management, Underwriting, Banking, Institutional Brokerage, and Asset Management. Ramirez provides retail and institutional trading expertise in Municipal Bonds, Equities, Government Bonds, Agency Bonds and Corporate Bonds.
The Firm has six main divisions:
Private Client Services, Municipal Bonds, Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, Institutional Equity & Taxable Fixed Income
The Private Client Services Group performs portfolio management, retirement planning, financial and estate planning for individuals, business owners, corporations and institutions. The group offers an array of investment disciplines including equity and fixed income, diversification strategies, insurance and alternative investments.
Group Highlights
- Presently manages in excess of $2.3B in customer accounts
- Over 4,000 privately managed accounts
- Clients include many second and third generations of family wealth management
The Municipal Bond Department provides banking, underwriting, sales, trading and distribution services to states, local governments and their agencies throughout the United States.
Group Highlights
- Ranked 9th nationally in 2010 (full credit to each manager) as a managing underwriter
- Nationwide Sales and Trading team averaging 17 years industry experience
The Equity Capital Markets Group offers underwriting services to corporations, public retirement programs and to some of the nation's largest professional money managers. The Firm's equity underwritings include spin-offs, private equity sponsored transactions, equity recapitalizations by financial institutions and traditional IPOs.
Group Highlights
- Co-manager or underwriter in eight of the ten largest U.S. equity new issue transactions
- Participated in approximately 60 equity or convertible transactions over the past five years
- The Firm's equity underwritings include spin-offs, private equity sponsored transactions, equity recapitalizations by financial institutions and traditional IPOs
The Debt Capital Markets Group offers underwriting of fixed income securities including corporate bonds, convertible bonds, asset backed securities, preferred stock and US Agency notes for a unique investor base. Ramirez is a co-manager or underwriter of debt in the traditional corporate bond market, the retail targeted hybrid and trust preferred market, the tax exempt market (for select corporations), and is a member of the selling group for the major U.S. Agencies.
Group Highlights
Since 2002, Ramirez has participated in new issue corporate debt transactions totaling over $200 billion.
- Participated in over 300 debt and hybrid debt new issue transactions over the past five years
- Co-manager or underwriter of debt in the traditional corporate bond market, the retail targeted hybrid and trust preferred market, the tax exempt market (for select corporations), and the US Agent market
- Book-runner for four corporate transactions - $250MM Pacific Gas and $300MM SoCal Gas
The Institutional Equity Group is an experienced team of equity sales & trading professionals that offer performance enhancing products and services with "Agency Only"/non-conflicting trade execution for institutions, corporations, pension funds and government agencies.
Group Highlights
- All trading is executed on our FIX compliant New York desk
- Equity execution in listed, OTC and International Markets
- A suite of sophisticated & unique algorithm trading strategies
- Program/basket trading
- Sales & trading team averaging over 25 years of industry experience to handle orders on a manual basis
- Soft Dollar and Commission Recapture programs for our clients to obtain independent, third-party investment products and services
Share Repurchase team for our Corporate accounts
- Engaged in approximately 50 share repurchase assignments over the past five years
- Client base primarily consists of Fortune 100 companies with many having engaged Ramirez for multiple assignments
- Every share repurchase is handled by a senior equity professional and makes use of our algorithmic trading group
The Taxable Fixed Income Group offers our institutional and high-net-worth retail client base access to new issues as well as secondary trading in corporate bonds, U.S. agency securities, $25-preferreds, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, convertible bonds and taxable municipals/BABs.
Group Highlights
- Client-focused professionals averaging over 16 years of industry experience
- Our account base consists of over 200 institutional clients encompassing large institutions, middle-market investors and public pension systems
- A co-manager or underwriter in transactions generated by the firm’s Debt Capital Markets Group allows investors to gain access to the primary market
- An approved member of the selling group for US Agencies
- A senior manager in many negotiated and competitive taxable municipal/BABs issues and an active market maker
Our main office is located in
New York with branch locations in
Albany, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, Palm Beach, San Antonio, and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
