Investor Relations in the 21st Century

... Or fencing on a tightrope in the eye of the storm...

After two plus decades on the firing line in Investor Relations I have as many questions now as I did when I started – just different questions. Traders outnumber investors; markets are increasingly fragmented and opaque; technology outpaces regulation, All these trends are transforming the IR landscape today and into the future. RiskRewardNews is where I intend to search for insight and answers. Join me in conversation with market participants, CEOs, CFOs, IROs, academics, regulators, and informed observers as the financial market of the 21st Century takes shape.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Sell side braces for commission cuts in 2010

Analyst and management contact rank high on buy side’s wish list
by Brad Allen published on IR Magazine's website

A recent Greenwich Associates survey of 268 sell-side institutions projects that commissions generated in trading US equities in 2010 could shrink nearly 25 percent to 2007 levels of $10.5 bn. Underneath that overall decline, hedge fund commissions are projected to shrink by nearly a third. As a result, the battered ranks of sell-side analysts could shrink even further, according to the Greenwich report released earlier this month.
Read full article here.

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