ITG Post-Trade Analytic^TM recognizes that next-generation TCA tools must incorporate new asset classes, highlight key metrics such as the expected value of affecting change and, most important, optimize a users ability to rapidly consume complex performance metrics without being overwhelmed by copious amounts of data.
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In this Waters survey, we look at the emerging implications that market fragmentation has for indications of interest, real-time TCA and trade ticket aggregation for the buy side.
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The world is in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis, and most mainstream economists and Washington policy makers didn’t see it coming. In a suprisingly readable new book, “The Cost of Capitalism: Understanding Market Mayhem and Stabilizing Our Economic Future”, Robert J. Barbera (Chief Economist at ITG) places the blame for this abject failure in economic forecasting and government policy on a “misguided confidence in the infallibility of free markets.”
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Do you view your network provider as a plumber or a partner? If you answered plumber (i.e., just a broker connectivity provider), you are missing out on value-added services that your network can provide to help you achieve your best execution goals and ultimately make you a better trader.
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Is the financial turmoil of recent months driving change in the brokerage model faster than ever? ITG’s Ofir Gefen believes the role of the broker is changing in an irreversible way, and that geographic differences are becoming less relevent to the brokerage model as the mroe pressing concerns of high volatility and trading costs, counterparty risk and business ownership come to the fore.
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As advanced electronic trading and technology meets the most volatile markets of our time, the volatility is winning – and costs are rising. ITG is ranked in Institutional Investor’s 12th annual global transaction cost analysis.
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Twenty years ago, for many people algorithmic trading was a concept from the realms of science fiction – now it is an essential part of every trader’s day. But, development is continuous and the market is constantly seeking new strategies and tools.FIXGlobal spoke with Tony Huck, Managing Director and Head of ITG’s algorithmic and portfolio trading group about what’s happening now in the US and the latest US algorithms and a look at what lies ahead.
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It has been a steady rise up the execution management system (EMS) ladder for agency brokerage and technology firm ITG after it finished second in the EMS category of last year’s Waters Rankings. Nudging Bloomberg out of the top position this year, ITG’s Triton and Radical systems have now been crowned as the best in the EMS business.
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