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Bloomberg: “We don’t know if it will increase share for BrokerTec, but it’s a big change that will cause market participants to take a look at their current strategy going forward,” said Kevin McPartland.

Reuters: “What’s happening with a lot of crypto exchanges is that they’re doing to some extent a copy-paste from what we’ve learned from other asset classes, specifically stock markets,” said Richard Johnson.

MarketsMedia: “Much of the growth over the past year can be attributed to the entry of new institutional users to the ETF market – especially in fixed income,” said Andrew McCollum. 

Globe and Mail: Canadian institutions that use ETFs allocate an average 18.8 per cent of total assets to the funds, up from 15.2 per cent last year and the highest globally, according to Greenwich Associates.

Traders: “...the pension community has yet to widely embrace a variety of well-proven options strategies that could improve returns while still minimizing risk,” said Richard Johnson.

Benefits Canada: Canadian institutional investors that use exchange-traded funds allocate an average 18.8% of total assets to them, according to research by Greenwich Associates.

FT: Greenwich Associates estimates that a fifth of all investment-grade US corporate bond trades are now done electronically — almost double the volume of a decade ago.

Risk.net: Kevin McPartland, said the “biggest surprise” by far was the continued upward trajectory of risk and portfolio technology spend...

WSJ: Greenwich Associates, an industry research firm, estimated that budgets for research have dropped by $300 million.

Institutional Investor: Greenwich Associates found that 81% of institutions were satisfied with the performance of the options strategies they employ.