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Algorithmic development has and always will evolve to achieve the best performance possible versus the client benchmark,” says Alex Harman, head of EMEA electronic and program trading at Goldman Sachs. The longer I take, the more opportunity/risk I’m exposed to.
Market fragmentation has increased over recent years and led to the dispersion of trading activity across primary exchanges, lit and dark multilateral trading facilities (MTFs), banks’ systematic internalisers (SIs) and electronic liquidity providers’ (ELP SIs). Could a consolidated tape offer up a suitable alternative tool to CLOBs (CT)?
One of the benefits of growth in FX clearing includes developments in financial resource management tools, said Coalition Greenwich, further highlighting that increased clearing is set to affect how and with whom the buy-side trades.
While traders don’t have the authority to load up trades, outside of execution they are expected to collaborate with their portfoliomanagers to bring value add to the investment process by making suggestions around idea generation and execution. The trading team work closely in tandem with portfoliomanagers when preparing a strategy.
“In the end, the efficiency that we hoped to reach with having one desk was not realised and therefore we said we want to focus on one specific asset class with dedicated equity traders, fixed income traders and FX traders,” says head of equity trading and operational portfoliomanagement at Robeco, Robbert Wijgerse. “We
Electronic trading capabilities have led to a major shift away from voice trading, and this has changed the role that counterparties play when they work together. We view this as a complement to broker led avenues of liquidity, not as a replacement.” Enhancements seen on the buy-side have lent themselves to more automation on the desk.
Specifically, Collery highlighted the important role of portfoliomanagers and a proactive approach to forging those key relationships. However, despite this, Joe Collery, head of trading at Comgest endorsed a measured approach whilst speaking at TradeTech earlier this week.
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” or “give me a breakdown of value by portfoliomanager” Taking a step further, orders can be grabbed to prep or allocated internally across the desk. From a fixed-income perspective, bilateral electronic connections are finally becoming commonplace.
If a portfoliomanager wants to execute a trade days after such an event, they need to understand that liquidity may be reduced, and they must be confident in their strategy if they’re willing to pay more in the bid-offer spread.” Often we won’t commit orders fully to a broker.
It is rare, for example, that you’ll find an asset manager worrying about the good of the market or how an order might influence the primary lit market share, over whether or not they have achieved the optimal outcome for their portfoliomanager and end investor. They’re built for slightly different purposes.”
These systems touch upon all elements of the trading lifecycle throughout the front-to-middle-to-back-office including execution, order, risk and portfoliomanagement. In years gone by, buy-side firms have placed orders via a sell-side broker to be traded on exchange.
Pre-trade, market impact and peer models are not as common and can be less detailed compared to equities and this is an area which might benefit from more investment by vendors and brokers alike. The rise in electronic trading supported more granular order data availability. This led to increased use of TCA benchmarking.
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