Traditional “long-only” investors are joining quantitative early-adopters in using alternative data. Budgets are up 52% in the last year, and 56% of investors have added new alternative data sources in the last two years.
No new swaps have been mandated to trade on SEFs since the original determinations were made two years ago. The CFTC recently called a panel to understand why and what they should do to change the logjam we are in the middle of now. We were pleased...
The extended discussion surrounding the NYSE outage from last Wednesday seems your typical case of rubbernecking. Maybe it's wishful thinking that this event will fit neatly with the Flash Boys script, painting the US equity markets in disarray due...
When Bill Gross left PIMCO many in the market were concerned that the expected outflows would crush bond prices as they were forced to sell.
Growing uncertainty about the future of operating systems and devices used by financial services firms is forcing technologists to consider technology-agnostic application development. Our latest research suggests that companies developing...
A move by the European regulators to “unbundle” payments for research from commissions paid on equity trades will have potentially significant and negative consequences for both the buy side and sell side.
We recently published new research examining the use of Fixed Income ETFs by institutional investors.
A crisis is a crisis because most people didn't see it coming. Unexpected events freaks people out causing a bad chain of events - a crisis. So despite evidence that a liquidity crisis is on the horizon in the bond market, wide spread recognition...
Social media has become ubiquitous and in large part defines how we interact in a busy digital age. But not every platform is created equal, especially not for business and investing. We recently interviewed 256 institutional investors—pensions,...
Our recent report, “Equity Trade Commissions: Rates Vary Broadly Across and Within Markets,” highlighted an interesting finding from a Greenwich Associates study: average bundled commission rates on equity trades are surprisingly consistent across...
Larger institutions in Japan now execute only roughly 41% of trades as traditional single stock high-touch trades, well down from 48% in 2011.
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