Equity trading
Access to a host of trading opportunities, multiple platforms and block transactions, all with best-in-class execution.
Swiss Equity Brokerage
Benefit from our experienced team and the access they can provide to an array of trading opportunities, platforms and investment ideas, all delivered with flawless execution. In addition, equity portfolio managers, investors and analysts on the buy side can experience top-class service, too: our experts work closely with our research analysts to disseminate information to you in a timely manner.
What we offer
With my team in Zurich and London, we strive for well-founded, profitable equity recommendations and impeccable execution.
Marco Genepretti, Head of Equity Sales and Sales Trading
Our services in equity sales and sales trading
With a team of 16 experts, boasting decades of experience, we offer a broad range of services relating to equity sales and sales trading. This is the role we play in your personal investment success on the Swiss equity market.
Equity sales
Equity sales
- Investment ideas and opinions relating to companies and the market
- Investment recommendations and sample portfolios with track records
- Research-driven process that delivers crucial investment information about companies in key industries
- Value creation through a combination of research, in-depth knowledge and experience in equity sales
- Corporate access for our institutional investors to the top management of more than 200 companies a year, including deal and non-deal roadshows, flagship conferences, field trips, site visits and other bespoke events
- Major contribution to Alpha Capture platforms
- Access to investors located in Switzerland, the UK, Austria, Italy, Liechtenstein and Germany. Upcoming markets: US and France
Equity sales trading
Equity sales trading
- Resources and services to leverage trade flows from our large client network
- Customised execution service for high-touch and low-touch cash equity trading
- Assistance to boost institutional client understanding of trading events, sector trends and market dynamics
- Thorough client briefing on our electronic trading services and order handling practices
- Market-making (currently 40 active mandates) and share buybacks (various SMI and SPI companies)
- Advice on execution strategy from product specialists in all equity liquid markets, as well as distinctive trading insights, liquidity provision expertise and customised solutions for investment objectives
- Innovative solutions to access liquidity, including actionable indications of interest (IOIs), automated capital commitment on algorithmic orders and conditional orders for enhanced block-seeking functionality
- Centralised dealing desk for banks, asset managers and institutional clients
- Brokering of blocks in small, mid and large caps between potential buyers and sellers, no order book crossing
- Warehousing for small and mid-caps
Daily and weekly market updates to your mailbox
Our experienced sales team and sales trading team work closely with our research analysts to disseminate information to clients in a timely manner. Receive daily and weekly updates quickly and efficiently, so you can make investment decisions swiftly and, more importantly, precisely.
ZKB Midday Snapshot
ZKB Midday Snapshot
We highlight the most important changes on the stock market every lunch break and the reasons for any movement.
BlueMosaic by Zürcher Kantonalbank
BlueMosaic by Zürcher Kantonalbank
Identifying, understanding, and exploiting share prices that decouple from their fundamentals. BlueMosaic is an evidence-based product designed to help better time the entry into and out of trades.
Steinfels Update
Steinfels Update
Every Monday, our sales team shares the most important market updates, macro and micro events, paired with our editors’ impressions and experiences, with the aim of simplifying your investment decisions.
Trading strategies
Learn more about our high-touch and low-touch trading strategies. With our wide range of algo strategies, we enable our clients to execute their stock market orders in the most effective way.
High-touch strategy
High-touch strategy
LIQUIDITY-SEEKING
- EASY
- LIQ. SEEKING
- SMALL CAP
BENCHMARK
- BENCHPART
- VWAP
- TWAP
- CLOSE
- I.S.
- TIMING
- POV
UTILITY
- HAWKEYE
- PAIR
Low-touch strategy
Low-touch strategy
LIQUIDITY-SEEKING
- LIQ. SEEKING
BENCHMARK
- BENCHPART
- VWAP
- TWAP
- CLOSE
- POV
Best execution
Our guidelines set out how we achieve the best possible results for our clients in order execution under normal circumstances. Each year, Zürcher Kantonalbank publishes the top five execution venues in terms of trading volumes for each class of financial instrument, as well as information on the execution quality. The allocation of public offerings and public placements in the capital market is regulated by the Swiss Bankers Association.
Execution policy (PDF, 146 KB)
Execution policy summary (PDF, 97 KB)
Access to Switzerland’s elite managers
Our top-class conferences, site visits and roadshows offer a unique opportunity not only to meet top managers and learn the secrets of their success, but also to gain an impressive insight into the companies themselves.
