Competition among order and execution management systems providers has always been fierce. In 2018, the buy side spent $1.4 billion on OMS and EMS, and nevertheless, competition is about to get even tougher.

Latin American institutions continue to adopt ETFs at record levels.

Institutional investors are increasingly looking to their most trusted asset managers for market research, and are more now than ever finding that content via social media. 

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 by the bulge-bracket firms is eroding. 

Institutional allocations to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) rapidly grew last year, driven in large part by investors repositioning their portfolios in the face of an increasingly volatile and fast-changing market environment and the continued shift...

Investments in ETFs by U.S. Institutions increased significantly in 2018, with average allocations jumping to nearly 25% of total assets, up from almost 19% in 2017.

ETFs have long been used by insurance companies for equity exposure, but a change in the statutory accounting treatment of fixed income ETFs has helped open up the rest of an insurance company’s general account for increased use of the vehicle.

The average buy-side trading budget grew 8% year-over-year, to $2.73 million.

Greenwich Associates takes the temperature of the marketplace regarding important equity market structure regulatory developments including unlisted trading privileges, the Consolidated Audit Trail and the Transaction Fee Pilot.

Trading and clearing business goes to those people that provide the best service, market color and tightest pricing. The swaps market should not rest...