Institutional Investor: A Greenwich Associates report shows that institutions, particularly buy-side trading desks, have nearly doubled their spending on risk technology for 2018.
Forbes: "They’re telling us that they don’t think it’s going away and that it’s here to stay," says Richard Johnson.
Forbes: A Greenwich Associates study claimed that for more than 250 investors, LinkedIn was the most preferred social media source with 48% of all institutional investors using the networking service.
Law360: “That is not the way things work,” Richard Johnson said. “The SEC is supposed to come up with the rules.”
Bloomberg: “Credit market participants have been forced to make a trade-off between liquidity and specificity, and they’re choosing liquidity,” according to Ken Monahan.
The Trade News: Kevin McPartland warned that regulators must be wary that looser rules could erode price transparency that has been gained over recent years.
Risk: Greenwich Associates estimates that internalisation of US Treasuries trades at the largest primary dealers has become a “sizable” part of the market.
ETF Trends: Wealth management and institutional investors are projected to increase their use of fixed income ETFs over the next few years, according to Greenwich Associates.
PlanSponsor: According to Greenwich Associates, institutional assets are flowing into ETFs as U.S. institutions, including defined benefit (DB) plans, integrate them into essential investment functions...
Financial Advisor: Greenwich Associates said in a report that 15% of jobs in finance are at risk of being replaced by AI or machine learning in areas like research, trading, analysis and sales.
