A new report from Greenwich Associates finds that passively managed ETFs are increasingly used to achieve active outcomes in institutional portfolios, blurring the lines between active and index approaches.
Asset managers can boost asset retention and cross-selling rates by using Client Journey Mapping to improve the quality of service they deliver to clients.
With the implementation of MiFID II just months away, European equity brokers and institutional investors are holding fast to their wait-and-see approach to what could be revolutionary change to their business.
After several quarters of growth in fixed-income revenues, damped by a lull during the second quarter of 2017, market participants eagerly anticipate the impact that rate rises and tapering will have on volatility.
Insight Investment is the 2017 Greenwich Quality Leader in U.K. Investment Management Service. Insight Investment received market-leading rankings on multiple key service success factors and is the clear overall market leader.
Nearly a decade after the global credit crisis, a new fixed-income ecosystem is taking form. While institutional investors continue to trade the majority of their bonds with the biggest fixed-income dealers, they are increasingly trading with an expanding list of market specialists.
The U.S. equity brokerage business has shrunk by nearly 40% since the global financial crisis. In addition, the report finds trading commissions continue to migrate away from bulge bracket brokers towards midsize/regional brokers.
European institutions contending with sweeping regulatory reforms, persistently low interest rates and the threat of increased volatility are turning to asset management firms for advice and assistance on these critical issues. That demand for support is giving a boost to pan-European, multi-asset-class managers like Allianz Global Investors—the 2017 Greenwich Quality Leader in Overall Continental European Institutional Investment Management.
The key decision-makers from German institutions participating in the annual Greenwich Associates research study say their top priority is meeting the challenge of low interest rates and yield