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Preparing for an exodus

Anish Puaar — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:58:34 GMT

Robert Smith, president and chief investment officer for Texas-based Sage Advisory Services, explains why smaller buy-side firms should begin preparing now for the impending dearth of fixed income liquidity.

Action needed on conflicts of interest

Richard Henderson — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:30:54 GMT

Ari Burstein, senior counsel, capital markets, at US buy-side trade body the Investment Company Institute and its international counterpart ICI Global, explains why regulators must intervene in maker-taker pricing models and how decimalisation could benefit the buy-side.

Take control of your trading

Richard Henderson — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:50:00 GMT

Joe Gudorf, head trader, Principal Global Investors, explains how his firm protects itself against poor routing decisions and why he expects equity volumes to rise this year.

Prudential trading key to surviving low liquidity

Richard Henderson — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 16:02:15 GMT

Rich Vigsnes, global head of equity trading, Northern Trust, details the strategy his firm has pursued in the low-volume market and what he fears most about high-frequency trading and dark pools.

The pros and cons of being an early bird

Chris Hall — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 4:31:32 GMT

Nicola Egan, head of execution, US, Asia and emerging markets, AXA Investment Management, explains how she works with UK and US-based sell-side counterparts to trade US stocks from London.

Fuelled by data; steered by humans

Chris Hall — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:02:29 GMT

Melissa Hinmon, senior equity trader at Pennsylvania-based Turner Investments, says the human touch is still critical to effective execution performance despite major advances in use of transaction cost analysis in recent years.

Markets in flux

Chris Hall — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:48:44 GMT

Mat Gulley, global head of trading, Franklin Templeton Investments, explains why trends in the US equity markets are increasing the need for cohesion between traders and portfolio managers.

Looking into the PM’s mind

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:26:55 GMT

Mark Kuzminskas, director of equity trading at Robeco Investment Management, discusses his aspiration of applying real-time analytics to the natural trading instincts of the portfolio manager.

The bigger picture

Anish Puaar — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:20:25 GMT

Mike Earlywine, head trader at buy-side firm Ecofin’s New York office, explains why the current approach to pre-trade analysis used on the trading desk may not always reflect intended investment objectives.

Why wait for multi-asset functionality?

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:18:01 GMT

Michael Levas, founder and director or trading at Florida-based Olympian Capital Management, says multi-asset trading is already well supported by brokers and vendors.

US buy-side redefines broker relationships

Rob Daly — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:21:49 GMT

A new spirit of independence is spreading across many buy-side firms as they wean themselves off dependency on broker-dealers to provide trading ideas and technology, detailed a number of asset managers, during this month’s TradeTech USA event.

The data detectives

Anish Puaar — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:56:04 GMT

Brian Lees, manager of application development, The Capital Group Companies, and co-chair of FIX Protocol Limited’s execution venue working group, explains how buy-side firms are sifting through the evidence and scrutinising broker practices to improve the quality of execution data.

Paid to be paranoid

Chris Hall — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:51:39 GMT

Clive Williams, T Rowe Price’s Baltimore-based global head of equity trading, identifies some of the unintended consequences of regulatory change in the US securities and derivatives markets.