Cowen Group, Inc.

Cowen Group, Inc. is an investment holding company which operates through its subsidiaries. It is a diversified financial service company which provides alternative investment management, investment banking, research, and sales, and trading services. The company operates its business through two segments: Alternative Investment Management and Broker-Dealer. The Alternative Investment Management segment includes hedge funds, replication products, mutual funds, managed futures funds, fund of funds, real estate, healthcare royalty funds, cash management services, and mortgage advisory services, offered under the Ramius name. The Broker-Dealer segment offers industry focused investment banking for growth-oriented companies, including advisory and global capital markets origination and domain knowledge-driven research and a sales and trading platform for institutional investors, under the Cowen name. Cowen Group was founded on June 1, 2009 and is headquartered in New York, NY.