Cowen Group has added Eric M Rose to the firm’s options and event driven strategies sales and trading team.
Rose is a managing director and senior derivatives trader with a focus on risk arbitrage and event driven situations.
He will report to Kyle Solomon, Cowen’s head of options and event driven strategies.
“Eric has a proven ability to conceptualise and deploy complex, alpha generating derivative trading opportunities for active portfolio managers,” says Solomon. “Our organisation is committed to providing clients with value-added capabilities that leverage talent across the entire platform. As such, Eric will collaborate with our world-class research analysts, desk analysts and sales and trading team to generate actionable trade ideas for clients as well as provide execution and risk management. I am proud to welcome Eric and look forward to his contributions.”
Rose brings 18 years of options and derivatives trading experience to Cowen. Most recently, he was with Jefferies where he directed equity derivatives trading and risk management for the event/special situations and healthcare sectors.
Prior to that, he was an equity derivatives trader at CIBC World Markets / Oppenheimer and director of trading at Cathay Financial. Before that, he was an options trader at Prudential Equity Group.
