The credit default swap (CDS) market has been in decline for many years, inducing some market participants to shift to other products for their hedging needs.
Whether the CDS market can be...
ETFs help institutions manage their cash flow, hedge risk, gain quick exposures to illiquid market segments and more. But for institutional use of ETFs to grow and mature, long-held structures...
Finding an edge in today’s hypercompetitive markets is no easy task. Tens of thousands of investment firms globally, staffed by experienced portfolio managers and the sharpest new graduates,...
Electronic trading is growing marketwide, although top-line growth in the past two years has slowed from revolutionary to evolutionary. The most electronic markets, FX and index CDS, are likely...
Although the asset management industry is often criticized as being slow to move and evolve, the years since the 2008 financial crisis have been ripe with change. Faced with new regulations and...
The U.S. stock market has grown vastly more complex over the past two decades. Where over three-quarters of all trading volume was once handled by just two exchanges, today liquidity is spread...
The past few years have seen financial technology (fintech) progress from a niche corner of the startup scene to one of the hottest focus areas on both coasts.
The consumer segment has...
An array of factors, including an information explosion, new regulations, new technologies, and evolving commercial models, are coalescing to bring about significant change in the investment...
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Greenwich Associates has been tracking the growth of electronic trading since it began. The growth trend across asset classes has been fairly consistent over the past decade—upward. But in...
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Technology spending by asset managers, hedge funds and other buy-side firms is quickly catching up to compensation expenses. It now accounts for 40% of the total budget, up from just below one-...
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