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Following are selected news articles featuring ITG:
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ITG Seeks to Scratch the Itch of Stock Traders in a Shrinking World |
| Through recent acquisitions and a well-planned global expansion, ITG is well-suited to long-term success. According to analysts, ITG separates itself from the competition with its wide range of products and by not engaging in proprietary trading. CEO and President Bob Gasser adds, “I think our largest global investment clients value and appreciate that type of one stop shopping – and from a firm that does not compete with them for liquidity.” | |
| Investor’s Business Daily - January, 2008 | |
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ITG Savours "Perfect Cocktail" of Factors Driving Asian Demand |
| The “perfect cocktail” of factors in play within Asia’s financial markets is driving demand for a “dashboard” solution to provide buy side traders with the equivalent of a satellite navigation system as they negotiate the region’s complexities. So believes Alasdair Haynes, managing director and CEO of agency broker and technology provider ITG’s international operations. | |
| Asia Markets IT - May, 2007 | |
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Fine Tuning Algos to Fit the Market |
| Tony Huck, managing director of New York-based Investment Technology Group (ITG), says, “Clients are looking for more efficiency in the trading process, and if you can automate something so you can deal with those pieces that are highcost or more difficult, that’s where you want to get your focus.” | |
| Securities Industry News - April, 2007 | |
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Buy-Side-Driven Trading Takes Hold in Hong Kong |
| Hong Kong is a major international financial center and a regional hub for institutional buy-side firms. Their presence in Asia, coupled with the growth of hedging strategies, has led to an increase in algorithmic trading in the region. Gabe Butler, Hong Kong-based director of sales and trading for New York agency brokerage Investment Technology Group (ITG) says that algorithms have been available there for three to four years, and “it is still a developing market that has been pioneered primarily by brokers using algorithms to trade on behalf of their clients.” | |
| Securities Industry News - April, 2007 | |
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ITG's Killian Plots Growth Strategy |
| Over the past two years, Investment Technology Group, the electronic trading giant that has executed over 21 billion shares in the U.S. alone this year, has been on the warpath to acquire businesses that would give it control over the entire trading process. | |
| Wall Street Letter - August, 2006 | |
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ITG's Acqusition And Solutions Gradually Come Together |
| "The goal of our network was to offer an array of open and flexible solutions that would cover everything," Domowitz says. Covering everything, according to Domowitz, involves integrating advanced execution management tools directly into the OMS for sophisticated buy-side traders. | |
| Wall Street & Technology - August, 2006 | |
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Ahead of the Curve |
| ITG is bolstering its core capabilities through partnerships and acquisitions. By teaming with Merrill Lynch, for example, ITG plans to dive into the dark pool of liquidity by offering Block Alert, a rebranded version of POSITAlert. And the January 2006 acquisition of Plexus bolsters ITG's pre- and post-trade analytics capabilities while OMS vendor Macgregor will be integrated with ITG's execution order management system. | |
| Wall Street & Technology - June, 2006 | |
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No-Name Money Machine |
| Few investors have ever heard of Investment Technology Group, but it has quietly become one of the securities industry's most successful and profitable trade-execution firms. With electronic trading rising, its prospects look golden. | |
| Barron's - March 13, 2006 | |
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New Management Can Spark A Turnaround in a Firm's Shares |
| Shares are at 3 1/2-year highs and have surged more than 90% from the initial breakout. | |
| Investor's Business Daily - December 5, 2005 | |
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Institutions Getting Into Algortihmic Deals |
| Program trading has been around for well over a decade. A hybrid — algorithmic trading — has garnered the attention of brokers and fund managers in recent years. | |
| Investor's Business Daily - September 26, 2005 | |
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Computers Take Traders' Places |
| ITG sits on the front lines of program trading -- the computerized, big-lot transactions for institutional clients that now account for nearly 30 percent of the daily volume on the New York Stock Exchange, about double the level of just two years ago. | |
| Dallas Morning News - August 9, 2005 | |
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Where The Smart Money Goes, Its Trading Systems Soon Follow |
| ITG has gone beyond just executing trades, it has also been providing sets of analytical and research tools aimed at helping money managers assess and control their trading costs. The company has been driving volume through the use of technology and trading tools, says analyst Ken Worthington of CIBC World Markets. | |
| Investor's Business Daily - August 5, 2005 | |
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ITG: The Science of Evolution |
| High-tech brokerage Investment Technology Group has a unique window on the evolution of market structure, both in a regulatory and a technological sense. Ray Killian and Ian Domowitz talk about the current marketplace, regulations and ITG's growth strategies. Ray Killian explains, "We are in the transaction- processing business, with three segments: pre-trade analytics, the execution component and the post-trade measurement of the execution. As long as the venues are electronic and transparent, and as long as our rules based systems can get a trade ready, execute the trade and measure what happened, that's fine with us." | |
| Securities Industry News - May 16, 2005 | |
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Algorithmic Trading Saves Money, Report Says |
| Algorithmic trading is eight basis points cheaper than other means of trading, a new report shows. When the difficulty of the trade is taken into account, that difference grows to 11 basis points. The report was written by Ian Domowitz, managing director, and Henry Yegerman, director, of ITG Inc., New York, an equity trading and transaction analysis firm that offers algorithmic trading models to institutional investors. | |
| Pensions & Investments - March 21, 2005 | |