Institutional Trading

First Liberties performs a variety of functions for financial institutions, specializing in trading fixed income and equity securities. Our Management Team has a combined 75+ years of experience advising and trading for institutional clients.

Fixed Income

Our Fixed Income trading department offers years of experience in Fixed Income products. Our areas of expertise include sales and trading of Municipal Bonds, Certificates of Deposits (CDs) Structured Derivative Products and Mortgage-backed Securities, as well as CD analysis and underwriting.

Equities

Our Equity Trading department specializes in executing equity strategies for institutions and high-net-worth individuals. Representatives of First Liberties have extensive experience and access to industry leading technology.

Fixed Income Overview

First Liberties provides advisory services and fixed income trading execution to financial intermediaries by leveraging its extensive market knowledge and drawing on its substantial investor network. ​We utilize Fixed Income trading to benefit clients in a multitude of ways ranging from Risk Management to Liquidity purposes.  We enable financial institutions to execute strategies that help management maximize balance sheet optimization and improve rate-risk management. We structure deals ranging from $500,000 to as large as $250 million.

Client Profile

The client profile of our Fixed Income trading department is mostly comprised of broker dealers, community banks, insurance companies, and specialty financial institutions.​

Capabilities

Our Fixed Income trading department offers many capabilities and customized portfolio strategies to benefit clients. These include sales and trading of Municipal Bonds, Structured Products, Mortgage-backed Securities, and CD's as well as CD analysis and underwriting.

Client Solutions

1. Balance Sheet Assessment
2. Funding
3. Rate-Risk Management​​

We provide our clients with expert advice to assist in solution development and efficient implementation of fixed income strategies.

Client Benefits

Many financial institutions can benefit from our fixed income trading capabilities. Our clients are provided customized solutions with diligent implementation and monitoring from our experts.

​To learn more about how our fixed income trading strategies can benefit you read our two case studies.

Case Study 1:

Tactical Asset Management:
​Our client wanted to structure their portfolio to take advantage of a steeping yield curve.

In response, First Liberties helped the client construct a portfolio of structured CD's and notes.

Despite the market's illiquidity, First Liberties trading allowed the client to execute the strategy.

The client increased the bank;s net interest margin and better positioned the balance sheet to succeed under a steeping yield curve environment.
Case Study 2:

Strategic Asset Management:

Our client sought to increase their yield on their government portfolio.

First Liberties bought and sold over $1 billion of short dated government notes to pick up incremental yield. As a result, the client was able to increase yield on its government portfolio without changing duration or increasing their credit risk.

Our Equity Trading department specializes in executing equity strategies for institutions and high-net-worth individuals.

Representatives of First Liberties have extensive experience and access to industry leading technology.

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