Fitz Partners: Fund revenue margins drop 10% in 3 years, multi-asset offers hope
In the latest edition of its ‘Investment Advisory Fee Benchmarking Report’, fund research company Fitz Partners has looked at the different costs which make...
Symphony names Levy CEO
Capital market communication firm Symphony has announced that David Gurlé will step down on 31 May 2021 and has appointed Brad Levy, current president...
Risk appetite increasing as investor confidence rises 5.1 Points in August
State Street Global Markets has released the results of the State Street Investor Confidence Index (ICI) for August 2022.
The Global Investor Confidence Index increased...
Fitch Group to acquire CreditSights
Rating and data provider Fitch Group is acquiring CreditSights, the provider of credit research to the global financial community.
The company is being acquired from...
Market Analysis: Pressure on US dealing desks is changing priorities in 2020
New analysis of market activity this year has observed that while issuance is “racing toward historic annual highs” there is no corresponding increase in...
Coalition Greenwich: Buy-side desk budgets hit US$2 million per year
The average buy-side trading desk budget is just over $2 million annually, inclusive of both technology and compensation, with roughly one-third allocated to technology...
Coalition: FICC up 50% for banks in H1, rates revenues doubled
Banks saw fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) revenues rise by 54.6% in the first half of the year according to analyst firm Coalition....
7 Chord’s EM sovereign and corporate bond feed prices on Nasdaq’s Quandl
Predictive bond prices and analytics provider, 7 Chord, has expanded its data offering on Nasdaq's Quandl. Bond investors and dealers can now leverage Python,...
GreySpark: Buyer’s guide for cross-asset e-trading tools sets new expectations
Analyst firm GreySpark has released a new report on vendor-provided cross-asset e-trading solutions as a buyer’s guide to help traders, resetting expectations for the...
Are interdealer markets dead?
So-called ‘interdealer’ markets have long been used by large buy-side firms. This well-known secret creates inequality for those investment firms barred from participating, and...