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.
Institutional Investor: A new report from Greenwich Associates shows that institutions are spending roughly $900,000 per year on alternative data sources.
Traders: A new trading protocol has taken root in the electronic US Treasuries market, according to Greenwich Associates.
Profit & Loss: A new report from Greenwich Associates says that the focus of e-trading efforts in financial markets is switching away from mature markets like FX and into high yield bonds and cash equities.
Finance Magnates: The most notable among a new Greenwich Report findings was a plateauing of electronic trading in the foreign exchange (FX) markets.
Bloomberg: “TD has always had a great credit team and they’ve really stepped up the rates side of the business” this year, Peter Kane, said in a phone interview. “That’s brought them to knocking on RBC’s door and vying for first position.”
