Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. Adds Stephen Antczak to Head Its Corporate Strategy Team

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. announced today that Stephen Antczak has joined the firm as a Managing Director and will head the Corporate Strategy team. In this role Mr. Antczak will develop investment strategies for Cantor clients in the corporate credit and equity markets, with an emphasis on identifying cross-market and capital structure investment opportunities. Mr. Antczak will provide clients a suite of strategy offerings including market commentary, product notes, seminars, valuation and hedging models, and trade ideas.

“Adding a professional of Stephen’s caliber, with his extensive industry knowledge and expertise in the marketplace, further illustrates our commitment to being a client focused firm”

Mr. Antczak said, “All markets are inter-connected to some extent, and developments in one can have a profound impact on valuations in another. These relationships are often under-analyzed. I believe that we have an exciting and distinctive opportunity at Cantor to create a product that is uniquely valuable to our clients by examining risks and valuations in a way that others do not.”

“Adding a professional of Stephen’s caliber, with his extensive industry knowledge and expertise in the marketplace, further illustrates our commitment to being a client focused firm,” said Shawn Matthews, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. “We are extremely happy to have Stephen and his team on board to develop our capital structure research model which we believe is the focus of our customer,” concluded Mr. Matthews.

Mr. Antczak has worked in a strategy capacity for more than 14 years across a broad range of asset classes, including the government bond, high-grade corporate, leveraged finance, structured finance, and equity markets. Prior to joining Cantor, he headed the Leveraged Finance Strategy team at UBS. Earlier he was a senior strategist at Merrill Lynch, and also worked at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as an economist.

Mr. Antczak recently co-authored Leveraged Finance: Concepts, Methods, and Trading of High-Yield Bonds, Loans, and Derivatives with Douglas Lucas and Frank Fabozzi, and earned a ranking on Institutional Investor’s All-American Research Team. In addition, Mr. Antczak is an Adjunct Professor at Baruch University and Fordham University. Stephen graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. and an M.B.A and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Jung Lee will also be a member of the Corporate Research and Strategy team. Previously Ms. Lee worked at UBS as an associate strategist on the Leveraged Finance Strategy team. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Applied Science, majoring in finance and science engineering.

Cantor Fitzgerald added nearly a hundred sales and trading professionals in 2008 and another 125 new strategic hires since the first of this year. Focused on a capital structure-centric business model and cross-market strategy, Cantor is continuing to grow its fixed income, equity and investment banking businesses.

About Cantor Fitzgerald

Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading global financial services firm at the forefront of financial and technological innovation, has been a proven and resilient leader for over 60 years. The Cantor Fitzgerald franchise includes capital markets, sales and trading, investment banking, real estate private equity, and other businesses and ventures.

Cantor Fitzgerald is one of 18 primary dealers authorized to trade U.S. government securities with The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

A recognized leader in the global third market, Cantor’s equities sales and trading professionals provide solutions that address clients’ requirements for execution, return optimization and risk management, offering services in domestic and international equities, derivatives, convertibles and structured products, stock loan, and contracts for differences, as well as research.

A world-class dealer across a broad spectrum of fixed income products, Cantor offers services in repo and securities lending, mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities, corporate bonds, interest rate products, agencies, SBA securities and structured products, as well as fixed income rates strategy.

Cantor’s investment banking division focuses on providing capital raising and advisory services to growth-oriented companies. The group’s structuring and distribution capability is focused on addressing innovative solutions to complex issues and challenges for clients across the globe.

Cantor Fitzgerald’s 1,400 employees serve clients through 36 locations, including major financial centers around the world in the Americas, Europe, Asia/Pacific, and the Middle East.

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