Equity trading desk budgets remained flat in 2014.

With the exception of U.S. equity, fees appears to have stabilized and active non-Canadian fixed income increased driven by specialty mandates.  

DB plans dominate both corporate and public plans, but DC plans are anticipated to make inroads with corporate plans over the next 10 years.

While total notional volumes in U.S. retail structured products remained relatively flat, only declining about 3% from 2013 to 2014, volumes among third-party distributors jumped over 50%. Retail remains by far the largest channel for retail...

The commission pool for European equities remains challenged while electronic trading continues to grow.

While U.S. equity derivatives clients direct more flow electronically, the market lags the broader derivatives market.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch and CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets are the top brokers in Asian equity trading for 2014.

Trade finance activity is on the rise among companies around the world, driven by the expansion of European and U.S. firms into international markets and the continued surge in trading among companies within the broad Asian...

Over the last decade the buy side has expanded the role and capabilities of their trading desks by making significant investments in technology and staff—a challenging trend to continue when budgets are tight.

Fixed-income trading volume (excluding Central Banks) across Asia (ex. Japan) increased roughly 12% on a matched sample basis in 2014.