Buy Side Services
Workflow Re-Engineering
- Portfolio Investment Activities - settlement of securities trades, portfolio hedging, and income conversion and corporate actions.
- Fund Investor Activities - fund subscriptions and redemptions (transfer agency), share class hedging, and fund administration expenses.
Multi-Dealer, Single Dealer Platform Usage Review
- Multi-Dealer Platforms (MDPs) - FX Connect, FXall, Bloomberg, 360T, EBS Institutional, Flextrade, Portware, etc.
- Single-Dealer Platforms (SDPs) - Velocity (Citi), eXecute (JP Morgan) Neo (UBS), BARX (Barclays), Autobahn (Deutsche), Marquee (Goldman Sachs), Matrix (Morgan Stanley), Cortex (BNP Paribas), etc.
Trade Execution Review
- Pre-Trade and Post-Trade Account Allocation
- Execution Methods (RFQ/RFS/ESP/Algo/Limit/Fixing) Using Expected Cost Analysis (ECA)
- Custodial/Cash Management Bank Execution Versus Third-Party Liquidity Provider Execution
- Portfolio and Share Class Hedging
- Counterparty Exposure Management
eFX Performance Analysis
- Liquidity Provider Performance Versus Benchmark
- Slippage Analysis
- Performance Analytics