Sales & Trading
Ease of execution and high-quality customer service are hallmarks of Wood & Company's sales and trading team. Led by Andrea Ferancová and Jan Sýkora, the firm's professionals understand that investing requires careful decision making, and that each client's approach may be different. Consequently, over the years Wood & Co. has developed an acute sensitivity to the diversity of its clients' financial objectives.
The institutional sales trading team -- consisting entirely of locals -- maintains daily contact with the trading desks and decision makers of all the firm's international and domestic clients in order to help interpret both short- and long-term market movements. The depth and excellence of Wood & Co.'s sales and trading team is consistently put to the test to ensure liquidity and provide sophisticated market analysis and advice.
One of Wood & Co.'s goals is to understand the execution and trading needs of its clients, and deliver a trading product that meets or exceeds those needs. To this end the firm's local distribution capabilities are first-rate and the financial media and industry participants continually recognize the quality of the firm's equity sales and trading expertise. Wood & Co. is also a member of the Prague Stock Exchange.
Wood & Company is highly qualified to guide its international and domestic institutional clientele through the local implementation process and help to evaluate and modify investment strategies in response to the evolving Czech and Slovak markets:
- Advisory and research services covering Czech as well as international investment opportunities
- Specialized research products intended to support a client's short- and long-term investment decisions
- Extended trading research and news coverage
- Dynamic execution-only business for the largest London-based banks and brokers
- Efficient execution of client orders in local stocks and GDRs
- Market making in all seven stocks traded on the SPAD (the market making system) in order to achieve better execution services
- Distributor of international funds to domestic institutions
- Effective settlement
FX WORK
As an additional service in the execution of equities trading, Wood & Company provides foreign exchange activities include spot contracts, short-term interest rate instruments, currency derivatives, swaps, futures and options brokerage services, and other interest rate derivative products to assist our clients in managing their exposures to interest rates and currencies. These activities are augmented by an active role in working with clients on strategic risk-management hedging activities stemming from our position as one of the top corporate finance advisory firms in the region.