To drive improvements to the client experience, firms are hiring a Chief Client Officer or Head of Client Experience to “bring the client to life” within their organization and ensure there is a program designed to implement necessary...

With MiFID II’s implementation date less than 3 months away the real cost of research under the new regime is looming large. According to Greenwich Associates research based on interviews with 164 equity traders and 198 equity-focused portfolio...

Since the passage of Dodd-Frank in 2010, every time a Republican proposed a Dodd-Frank replacement in Congress, or a Republican regulator proposed a new, sensible rule, I barely paid attention.  I read the headlines, would sometimes read the...

Overall job satisfaction in the United States is now over 50%. One study even puts the percentage of American’s satisfied with their job at an amazing 92%.  If you trust either measure, that means the vast majority of working people in the...

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have raised over $1.2bn in funding in 2017 so far, but a recent SEC announcement shows that the regulators are paying close attention to this new asset class.

ESG is possibly the most talked about topic in our recent conversations with investors, consultants and managers. But with much of the current ESG activity focused across the pond, our clients often ask about the state of affairs in North America.

In my last post I discussed how bitcoin was losing dominance in terms of market cap relative to the overall cryptocurrency market. I also introduced two of the leading altcoins – Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. In this note I will be discussing...

Bitcoin was the original cryptocurrency and it is the largest and most successful. Today, however, there are almost 1,000 other cryptocurrencies and tokens in circulation. In this blog, I will be discussing some of the leading alternative...

Investors continue to be thirsty for market structure information.  In our most recent U.S. equities study almost half of buy-side respondents told us that sell side provision of market structure related services was either important or very...

While market sizes are often measured in the trillions of dollars, the number of firms that are responsible for the majority of transactions is measured in the hundreds if not the teens - but even though concentrated, competition must always exist.