Institutional investors in 2016 increased budgets to fixed-income trading desks in preparation for shifts in the interest-rate environment, and continued to ramp up IT budgets to keep pace...

In Q4 of 2016, Greenwich Associates conducted 181 online interviews across North America, Europe and Asia to bring clarity to the commission rates firms pay for equity trades. The result is a truly comprehensive view across 77 MSCI-defined developed...

Exchange-traded funds continue to attract new institutional users and assets in Asia, driven by significant growth among asset managers, institutional funds and insurance companies. The results of the Greenwich Associates 2016 Asian ETF...

Greenwich Associates interviewed 52 platform decision-makers and 151 financial advisors across channels including broker-dealers, private banks, insurance companies, and registered investment advisors (RIAs) to better understand how the intermediary...

Over the past decade, growing numbers of both institutional and individual investors have started considering the social impact of their investments.

Global fixed-income electronic trading rose 1% on a volume-weighted basis in 2016 compared to the previous year, with 46% of investors trading at least some of their volume electronically. In 2016, Greenwich Associates interviewed 3,650 fixed-...

There is no doubt that institutional investors are shifting investment assets into lower-cost passive strategies. But, reports of the death of active management are not just premature, they are altogether incorrect. Greenwich Associates is...

A combination of changes, including: rising interest rates, a less zealous regulatory environment, tax cuts, and overall optimism among business owners ...

The exchange-operated opening and closing auctions or “crosses” are becoming an increasingly important part of the trading day...

The buy side today has access to data and information that would have been unheard of 20 years ago. Whereas in the past they relied primarily on research and information from their sell-side trading counterparties, today they have as much, if not...