The question remains: does the rest of Wall Street (buy-side and sell-side) still believe?
Surveys of buy-side traders show they are worried, and there are in fact some worrisome events.
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The company offers buy-side firms execution and routing logic for trading they can conduct through their broker.
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Also rumored to be on the buy-side: Emmis Communications and a group backed by billionaire George Soros.
Those who wish to work on Wall Street should also not limit their options to buy-side shops.
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On the buy-side, Pharma is trying to secure a portfolio of external bets for its future pipeline.
There are lots of experiments around these models right now supported by both buy-side and sell-side drivers.
Grant said the firm is receiving requests from big buy-side firms to provide assistance with auto-pricing and liquidity.
At an inverted exchange, the buy-side firm pays a fee to cut to the front of the line.
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Which brings up the indispensable fax machine, favored by many a buy-side firm but definitely not an STP-device.
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Even communities that have no investment banks or buy-side shops typically have at least a few brokerage offices.
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Buy-side traders for mutual fund empires, pension funds and banks see dark pools as the most likely place for information leakage.
Managers expect the rate to reach 1.8% or so by December according to LCD latest buy-side poll from mid-March.
Managers expect the rate to reach 2% or so by December according to LCD latest buy-side poll from mid-December.
Benchmark Solutions has more than 30 institutional partners including some of the largest players on both the buy-side and the sell-side.
Hany Nada was a buy-side Wall Street analyst with Piper Jaffray for ten years when in 2000 he decided to start GGV.
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More than 60 organizations from both buy-side and sell-side firms involved in futures and OTC derivatives provided input to develop this document.
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Behind the hiring is increased optimism toward the Japanese market and consequent demand for buy-side equity research from overseas institutional investors.
Some say that the democratization of trading, the decimalization of share prices, and the erosion of commissions led to the death of quality buy-side research.
Now the person who needs monitoring is the person who is trading, whether it is a buy-side trader, an asset manager or a hedge fund.
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Meanwhile, many on the buy-side thinks automated trading has had its day (37 percent) and they are looking for alternatives including bespoke human-driven trading models.
Working as a buy-side analyst in the financial industry, I have had many conversations with colleagues about how little help sell-side analysts are to their clients.
For all of the talk about analysts, bankers, traders and fund managers at buy-side and sell-side firms, the reality is that these firms also employ numerous assistants.
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Buy-side firms want to see who is doing the best job of execution and they need TCA as investors and regulators expect more from them in fiduciary responsibility.
The buy-side is effectively responsible for where that order goes.
Sean Owen, director for fixed income at Woodbine and a co-author of the paper, thinks this really could be the year that makes a difference within buy-side back offices.
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Buy-side firms that did run risk management might have used Riskmetrics or Algorithmics, , while others used Excel, a flexible all-purpose tool not designed for specific tasks like risk management.
Stars like Jack Grubman and Henry Blodget have left the industry, and a wave of equity researchers have jumped to the greener pastures of hedge funds and so-called buy-side firms.
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If you are a buy-side or asset management firm in New York and you want to start trading in Asia, you need to be able to route trades to Asia.
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