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Australian Full Service Stock Brokers

Australian Full Service Stock Brokers

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Australia and New Zealand’s largest non-bank owned stockbroker

BBY is Australia and New Zealand’s largest non-bank owned stockbroker. With an extensive global reach, BBY’s mission is to service the local and international needs of Australian and New Zealand high growth companies, institutional investors, broker dealers and private investors.

BBY’s Head Office is in Sydney with offices in Adelaide, Auckland, Dubai, Gold Coast, London, Melbourne, New York, Perth and Wellington. BBY’s New York office is through a relationship with US Securities Firm Enclave Capital LLC.

In the 2012 East Coles Investment Banking Survey, BBY ranked 4th Best Equity Capital Markets Bank, 10th Best Investment Bank & 7th Best Equities Research. Mike Harrowell, Senior Resources Analyst and Scott Ashton, Senior Energy Analyst, was ranked 4th and 5th Best Equity Research Analyst respectively.

Today, BBY is one of the fastest growing, full service stockbroking houses in Australia with an average of:

  • $100 million per day ASX equities turnover  (15th by market share in Equities, 2nd in Options)
  • 5,000 CFD trades completed per month (60,000 per annum).

Furthermore, BBY has stayed ahead of the curve by not only educating its client, but also by sourcing the best platforms on offer around the world. BBY Online and BBY Investing currently offer Australia's largest range of tradeable products, including:

  • Bonds & Fixed Income
  • Commodities Futures & OTC Commodities
  • Contracts for Difference (CFDs)
  • Equities & Options
  • Foreign Exchange
  • Futures & Options on Futures
  • International Equities & Options
  • Physical FX
  • Trading Education (HomeTrader)
  • Warrants.

BBY has over $1 billion in assets under administration and a wealth of Australian and international clients. Not only does BBY have the resources, but with over $2 billion worth of capital raisings completed in the last 5 years, BBY also has the experience to take corporate finance ideas from concept to reality. 

What Makes BBY Unique in the Australian Market

 

BBY holds a unique place in the Australian and New Zealand securities markets. Because of our business model, size and local management, our clients know they can count on us to continue to put them at the heart of everything we do.

BBY has invested in leading-edge technology to ensure we have a highly scalable business and we continue to recruit and develop the very best people in the Australian and New Zealand market.

As an Australian owned firm we determine our own future, which is the envy of our competitors who operate either as a Branch of a global giant, or are smaller firms who lack the connectivity, experience or technologies to realise the very best opportunities for their clients.

Relationships have always driven BBY’s approach to doing business. Our clients lie at the heart of everything we do. 

BBY is committed to providing the very highest quality service to our clients, whether through corporate advice, institutional sales and trading, private client services, equities research, broker dealer services or funds management.

We also understand that choosing the right investment partner is not always easy and our clients must be satisfied that they are working with a team that has the right combination of persistence, determination, deep market knowledge, global networks and strategic thinking.

BBY works hard to be our client’s partner of choice for the long term and we are committed to achieving our clients’ investment objectives at all times.

Our History
1987
  • Formation of Burdett, Buckeridge & Young by the partnership between J. William Burdett, Graham Buckeridge and Peter Young, in conjunction with the State Bank of Victoria.
1991
  • Acquisition of State Bank by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia saw the disposal of their interest in BBY.
  • Jefferies & Co. acquired equity stake in BBY.
2004
  • New Management Team appointed, led by Glenn Rosewall.
2005
  • Secured US$100 million for Fortescue Metals (FMG) through two convertible notes in January (A$40 million) and February (US$70 million) through large offshore institutional clients.
  • BBY places a BUY on FMG.
2006
  • BBY secures US$400M from Leucadia National Corp, a NYSE listed company, for FMG.
  • BBY listed Linc Energy (LNC) on the ASX raising A$22 million via an IPO.
2007
  • BBY Co-Manager to placement for FMG raising A$504M.
2008
  • BBY strengthens research team by employing a number of expert Analysts in the Australian market.
  • BBY raises over $150 million for Linc Energy (LNC).
2009
  • BBY Board commits to retail expansion.
  • From 2005 to 2009, BBY conducted seven capital raisings totalling $340 million for Karoon Gas Australia (KAR).
2010
  •  BBY averages over A$150 million per day in equity volume, placing it as Australia’s fourth largest domiciled stockbroker.
2011
  • BBY opens offices in Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast.
  • BBY grows its retail business by adding 70 private client advisors across Australia to the group.
  • BBY expands its range of products to include trading in CFDs, Forex, Futures, Contract Options and Physical Precious Metals.
  • BBY starts self-clearing.
  • BBY moves to multi-markets (Chi-X).BBY opens offices in Adelaide, Perth and the Gold Coast.
BBY grows its retail business by adding 70 private client advisors across Australia to the group.
BBY expands its range of products to include trading in CFDs, Forex, Futures, Contract Options and Physical Precious Metals.
BBY starts self-clearing.
BBY moves to multi-markets (Chi-X).
2012
  • Carbon & Environment Trading desk commences.
  • BBY enters a partnership with Enclave Capital LLC and forms BBY Enclave as a US licensed entity.
  • BBY adds a Fixed Interest team and starts offering Fixed Interest products to Clients.
  • Adds another 32 private client advisers to the group.
2013
  • Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is the number one performing stock on the ASX this millenium, returning over 40,000%.
  • BBY has over 110 client advisers and 300 broker dealer advisers.

Our Clients are at the Heart of Everything We Do

Relationships have always driven BBY’s approach to doing business. Our clients lie at the heart of everything we do.

BBY is committed to providing the very highest quality service to our clients, whether through corporate advice, institutional sales and trading, private client services, equities research, broker dealer services or funds management.

We also understand that choosing the right investment partner is not always easy and our clients must be satisfied that they are working with a team that has the right combination of persistence, determination, deep market knowledge, global networks and strategic thinking.

BBY works hard to be our client’s partner of choice for the long term and we are committed to achieving our clients’ investment objectives at all times.

Awards & Recognition

BBY is proud of our achievements. The stellar growth of the companies we’ve supported and the realisation of our private client’s financial objectives are ample reward, however we also receive plaudits and awards from the broking industry and the Australian business community more generally.

Since our re-launch in 2004 as BBY, we have received awards of which we are particularly proud.

In 2008, BBY won an International Stevie Award for Best New Financial Product in the International Business Awards for our "Valuation and Momentum Monitor" approach to stock-picking. In 2008 we also won the "Best Corporate Deal of the Year" in The Australian Stockbrokers Foundation Hall of Fame for our capital raising for Linc Energy (LNC), Australia’s leader in Clean Coal Technology.

BBY is also very proud of the rewards our team of Research Analysts continually receive for their stock coverage and trading insights. Without exception, our Analysts score in the uppermost quartile in the industries major peer reviews.