The U.S. financial markets offer an unparalleled source of liquidity and innovation. They also present a host of challenges and opportunities for asset managers, including:

• More—and increasingly stringent—regulations
• Increasing fragmentation
• More tightly defined best execution requirements
• Continued growth in electronic trading and overall trading volumes

A proliferation of choices and challenges

The fragmentation of the U.S. market is a key challenge for asset managers, given the expanding number of execution venues including ECNs, crossing networks and dark pools. Regulatory scrutiny of trading practices across these venues has been heightened in recent years. The sophisticated technology needed to connect, integrate, negotiate, and execute the full range of investment tasks from pre-trade analysis to post-trade measurement and processing is increasingly frustrating.

How ITG can help

More than ever, clients partner with ITG to meet their fiduciary responsibilities and improve their trading performance. No other firm offers such a complete package of market-leading analytics, effective liquidity sourcing tools, technological expertise, and local market insight.

Providing full integration of all the trading functions, we can help you achieve optimal workflow efficiency. ITG’s Triton^® and Radical^® execution management systems (EMS) cover pre-trade, execution, and post-trade functions and provide broker-neutral connectivity to dozens of trading venues and access to an extensive set of algorithms. Plus, ITG Net^® offers global connectivity to hundreds of brokers and destinations as well as other value-added services.

POSIT Marketplace^® brings users aggregated access to quality liquidity, employing ITG’s proprietary Liquidity Filter to protect against gaming and improve performance. Increasingly sophisticated ITG Algorithms^® help our clients access hard-to-find liquidity. ITG has a robust research and development effort, as well as a concerted push to offer a truly global platform to all of our clients.

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