White Papers and Research

Global Investing: Considerations for Building an End-to-End Solution

As the capital markets continue to expand beyond the U.S., brokerage firms and their clients are seeking greater global access and the ability to trade international instruments directly. However, developing a global investing solution calls for an investment of capital, talent and time. Even large, successful organizations often lack the expertise, local market knowledge, tools and people they need to go to market. Learn how firms can enable global investing for their clients.

Evaluating Broker Effectiveness for Performance: “Vote Early and Often”

Today’s traditional asset managers and hedge funds find themselves increasingly beset by demands to monitor and measure their activity, to which they must respond. MIK’s commission and broker suite of applications works a firm’s data not only to meet regulatory requirements but to help managers in the entire range of relationships with brokers as a whole and with each individual broker they select. It makes the relationship between firms and their brokers equal and provides a means to engage brokers based on analysis.

The Algo of Choice in Tough Times: The Human Equation

Even in the current uncertain and volatile markets, the need for performance drives both traditional asset managers and hedge funds. Securing this performance is directly tied to access to liquidity, market conditions, control over orders, and having a broker whose sole interest is to represents their clients. As the attached paper discusses, these issues are largely tied to insight...provided by relationship, rather than machine based trading. I hope you enjoy the read and look forward to discussing it with you.