Press Releases

Asset Management Professionals - Evolve, Or Be Replaced

March 26, 2019

The asset management industry is being disrupted by trends ranging from fee compression and consolidation to AI, big data, analytics, and social media and managers are forced to reassess their business strategies—and their staffing plans. 

LatAm Institutional Investors Embrace ETFs As Instrument of Choice for Volatile Times

March 20, 2019

Latin American institutions continue to adopt ETFs at record levels according to the third annual Latin American ETF Study from Greenwich Associates, with ETF allocation now 18% of total assets in 2018.

Social Media Gaining Influence in Institutional Asset Management

March 19, 2019

Institutional investors are increasingly looking to their most trusted asset managers for market research, and are now more than ever finding that content via social media.

Is e-Trading Eroding the Bulge-Bracket Broker Advantage?

March 12, 2019

Institutions are making more use of both e-trading and sophisticated tools that help them evaluate execution results—and non-bulge bracket brokers are frequently besting their bigger rivals on this fast-evolving playing field. 

During Time of Volatility, ETFs Thrive in Europe

February 28, 2019

Allocations to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) by institutions currently investing in them increased by 50% in 2018.

Market Volatility and Growing Uses Drive Big Gains in ETF Investment Among U.S. Institutions

February 27, 2019

U.S. institutional investors are the global leaders when it comes to exchange-traded fund (ETF) investing.

Insurance Companies Accelerate Investment in ETFs

February 21, 2019

Sixty-two percent of U.S. insurance companies are now utilizing exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in their general accounts for reserve and surplus exposures, and among those who have not yet embraced ETFs, 82% expect their organizations will reconsider that decision in the next three years. 

Compensation Spending Drives Budget Growth For Buy Side Trading Desks

February 12, 2019

Budgets for buy-side trading desks in the U.S. and Europe grew 8% last year, fueled by increased spending on compensation.

Transaction Fees, Market Data and Questions About the CAT Top List of Market Structure Issues for 2019

February 7, 2019

Only 2% of traders said they definitely would execute electronic orders with a broker who only used SIP data in their algos, and nearly 1 in 3 want the SEC to pull the plug on the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT).

Artificial Intelligence Changing The Way Banks View Middle Market Companies

February 6, 2019

Middle market companies could soon experience changes in how banks view and service them due to banks’ adoption of sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) systems that rank companies in terms of their potential profitability as clients.