SG Americas Securities, LLC

SG Americas Securities is an investment banking company that was founded back in 1940. The company acts as a subsidiary of SG Americas Securities Holdings, LLC, specifically as its broker dealer arm located in the United States, which, in turn, is a holding subsidiary of Societe Generate Group, which is the parent holding company that can trace its history back to 1864 and has over 154,000 employees located in 76 countries. SG Americas Securities provides a variety of investment banking services including underwriting, capital markets, securities, mergers and acquisitions, derivatives, clearing, settlement, trading, and custodial services, among others. The company caters largely to pooled investment vehicle clients and also includes financial institutions, oil and gas, sports and gaming, media and telecommunications, aerospace and defense, and multinational corporations in its diverse client base. SG Americas Securities is headquartered in New York City and has additional offices located in Chicago, Illinoi, Houston Texas, and Boston, Bew York. The company acts as a broker dealer and has over 900 financial professionals registered in New York. Mutual funds offered through the parent Societe Generale Group are offered through Amundi Funds, which combines the asset management operations of Credit Agricole, which makes up three quarters of it, and Societe General, making up the rest. SG Americas Securities is almost completely owned by its holding company SG Americas Securities Holdings, LLC, with the remaining shares split amongst key executives. The company currently invests the most heavily in the technology and financial sectors, which together makes up over half of its total investment allocations, and also invests in the services, healthcare, consumer noncyclical, capital goods, energy, and consumer cyclical sectors, among others to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing sector allocations. SG Americas Securities, as of 2015, has a total market value of over $15.8 billion.