Retail analyst Chen joins Cowen

Cowen Group, Inc. has designated Oliver Chen as a Managing Director in the company’s Equity Research department focused on key retail sectors.

In his new role, Chen covers specialty retail, broadlines and department stores, and luxury stocks. Chen is based in New York and reports to Robert Fagin, Cowen’s Director of Research.

“We are thrilled to welcome Oliver to Cowen,” said Mr. Fagin. “He has a thorough and creative approach to equity research, and as a recognized thought leader in the retail sector, he is an indispensable resource to buyside institutional investors.”

Chen joins Cowen from Citigroup, where he spent over seven years as a senior analyst covering a broad spectrum of the U.S. consumer retail landscape, including specialty stores, apparel, footwear & textiles, luxury retail, department stores and broadlines. Prior to Citigroup, he worked in the investment research division at UBS, in the global mergers and acquisitions/strategic planning group at PepsiCo International, and in J.P. Morgan’s consumer products/retail mergers and acquisitions group.

Chen holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from Georgetown University and a Masters of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a CFA charterholder. Chen was named one of the top three analysts in the Retailing/Specialty Stores sector in the 2014 Institutional Investor All-America Research Team survey.