Some new research from Greenwich Associates found that institutional use of Fixed Income ETFs is growing. Not surprisingly really, but digging more deeply into why and what it means for the market has a whole creates some interesting debates – debates that I tackle with the folks at Bloomberg TV.
Every month or so I have the pleasure of talking with the folks at the Benzinga #Premarket morning show. The listener base is predominantly retail which isn’t really my focus, however I love that they give air-time to market structure issues as they are as important to retail/professional traders as they are to the big institutions.… Read More »
The Wall Street Journal has a great featured piece today on the importance of the sales trader, which is something we at Greenwich have been out talking about quite a bit over the last few months. The WSJ story features our latest equity research (although the direct quote was unfortunately cut by the editors – sorry… Read More »
On the heels of the Senate hearing into high speed trading, I joined Sal Arnuk from Themis Trading on Bloomberg TV to discuss the best way forward for equity market structure.
We’ve just released the results of our benchmark US equities study, based on almost 600 interviews with US equity investors. While Greenwich has been conducting this study for literally decades, this is my first market structure analysis of the data since joining the firm last summer. The report includes the expected critical data points – total… Read More »
Bloomberg TV’s Market Maker’s program had a great segment on why people cheat on everything. I was lucky enough to discuss with them the role cheating has on Wall Street – and why high frequency trading is not cheating.
We all know that the massive reduction in dealer inventories and the cost of capital has had a huge negative impact on liquidity in the corporate bond market. While the primary market has helped soften the blow, that crutch isn’t going to be here for long as rates start to rise over the next few… Read More »
I talked to an Economist reporter based in Paris on Wednesday (October 2) about what the first day of SEF trading means to the market. I think the key point to note on the quote below is that we’re talking about the day 1 impact. The longer term impact on the the market I believe… Read More »
Here at Greenwich we just wrapped up a study looking at how buy side trading desks are spending their technology dollars. On September 26 I presented the findings on a webinar (which I did from a conference room in a hotel in Boston just before moderating a panel on swap futures, in case you care), and… Read More »
Quite a lot of hoop-la on Friday (September 27, 2013) around the October 2 SEF implementation deadline. On that point, the response to my post on the CFTC de-electronifying the market has been mostly positive. And it looks like the CFTC decided to listen to all of us wanting October 2 to go smoothly, providing… Read More »