Whois & Analysis for piperjaffray.com

Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE: PJC) is a full-service investment bank and asset management firm focused on mergers and acquisitions, financial restructuring, public offerings, public finance, institutional brokerage, investment management and securities research.

Through its principal subsidiary, Piper Jaffray & Co., the company targets corporations, institutional investors, and public entities.

The New York Stock Exchange (abbreviated as NYSE and nicknamed "The Big Board"), is an American stock exchange located at 11 Wall Street, Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York.

It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its listed companies at US$19.3 trillion as of June 2016.

The average daily trading value was approximately 169 billion in 2013.

The NYSE trading floor is located at 11 Wall Street and is composed of 21 rooms used for the facilitation of trading.

A fifth trading room, located at 30 Broad Street, was closed in February 2007.

The main building and the 11 Wall Street building were designated National Historic Landmarks in 1978.

An investment bank is typically a private company that provides various financial-related and other services to individuals, corporations, and governments such as raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities.

An investment bank may also assist companies involved in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and provide ancillary services such as market making, trading of derivatives and equity securities, and FICC services (fixed income instruments, currencies, and commodities).

Asset management, broadly defined, refers to any system that monitors and maintains things of value to an entity or group.

It may apply to both tangible assets such as buildings and to intangible assets such as human capital, intellectual property, and goodwill and financial assets.

Asset management is a systematic process of deploying, operating, maintaining, upgrading, and disposing of assets cost-effectively.

Underwriting services are provided by some large specialist financial institutions, such as banks, insurance or investment houses, whereby they guarantee payment in case of damage or financial loss and accept the financial risk for liability arising from such guarantee.

An underwriting arrangement may be created in a number of situations including insurance, issue of securities in primary markets, and in bank lending, among others.