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...

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 and the scope of the buyers and sellers they’re...

Following the passage of MiFID I, electronic trading in Europe grew 250% from 2007 to 2010. In this research, Greenwich Associates takes a look at the early days of the MiFID II trading transformation by making informed predictions based on the...