When selecting an asset manager to partner with, institutional investors rank trust in the brand higher than even the ability to achieve high returns. This demonstrates that while technology is...
By mining our historical data on dealer-client relationships, Greenwich Associates found that they are becoming significantly less stable over time and that the relative stability advantage held...
Allocations to exchange-traded funds by institutions currently investing in ETFs increased by 50% in 2018, totaling 15% of total assets among the 127 institutional investors participating in...
U.S. institutional investors are the global leaders when it comes to exchange-traded fund (ETF) investing.
Institutional investments in ETFs increased significantly in the United States in...
This report presents the results of a Greenwich Associates study of U.S. insurance company investments in exchange traded funds (ETFs). We interviewed 52 insurance companies, with total assets of...
In 2018, Greenwich Associates noted that investors' spending had reached equilibrium.
2019 starts to buck the trend as budgets are increasing. To fully understand the dynamics of the buy-side...
Traders are supportive of the Transaction Fee Pilot but won't miss the Tick Size Pilot, and they are sympathetic to the sell side's arguments around exchange market data pricing. On other issues...
We have examined in previous years a variety of structural issues in the swaps market that discourage new entrants from stepping into the fray. The capital intensity of the business is the...
An interesting facet of market structure is how flexible markets can be, twisting and turning to conform with the nature of the product, the legal and regulatory environment in which they operate...
We are now just over one year into the great MiFID II trading transformation. Execution has been unbundled from research, requiring asset managers to focus more on execution quality and brokers,...