Buy-Side View Archive

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. read more>

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. read more>

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.  read more>

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. read more>

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. read more>

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. read more>

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. read more>

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. read more>

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. read more>

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. read more>