FT: “Investors are perpetually searching for improved execution quality, and are increasingly open-minded as to how that is achieved,” said Kevin McPartland.
Wealth Professional: To enhance the quality of executions and ramp up commissions from clients, Greenwich Associates said portfolio managers and traders should regard ETFs as a separate asset class from equities, derivatives, or fixed income.
Markets Media: A recent survey by Greenwich Associates forecasts increasing demand for equity options among U.S. institutional investors.
Financial Times: ...budgets have been squeezed 20 per cent to accommodate research spending, according to Greenwich Associates.
MarketsMedia: iShares, BlackRock’s ETF business, was named the best ETF provider in Greenwich Associates latest annual European Exchange-Traded Funds Study.
FundFire: Moving from a base fee structure to a performance-based fee structure can help align the interests of the institution and the investment manager, says Andrew McCollum.
The Trade News: Greenwich Associates found that many institutional investors, equity broker-dealers and market makers deploy the same methods for trading ETFs as for equities, but this often leads to suboptimal executions.
MarketsMedia: Average ETF allocations increased to 10.3 % of total assets in 2017 from 7.7% in 2016 according to Greenwich Associates’ annual European ETF Study.
ValueWalk: In their report “A Buyer’s Guide to Alternative Data,” Richard Johnson reveals other issues that those wading into the alternative data waters must navigate.
Financial Times: The result has been a sharp squeeze in budgets — by 20 per cent according to Greenwich Associates.
