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The interest in alternatives — particularly infrastructure — from multiemployer plans reflects broader institutional investor attitudes in Canada. A Greenwich Associates study late last month of Canadian public and corporate pension funds,...

A Greenwich Associates survey of Japanese asset owners showed that while insurers and banks accounted for only 10.4% of a ¥182 trillion pie of externally managed assets in 2015, they've been boosting the outsourced portion of their general account...

Hedge funds almost doubled their use of algorithmic trading in the foreign-exchange market last year, according to Greenwich Associates. Sophisticated investors executed 61 percent of their currency trades via automated computer programs in 2015...

"Institutions are finding new and increasingly strategic applications for ETFs, with 77 percent of them using ETFs to obtain Core Exposures," said Andrew McCullum, a consultant for Greenwich Associates and author of Institutional Investment in ETFs...

Much of the debate in the 52 letters the Treasury received over the past few months from dealers, investors, central banks and academics centered around which activities should get more regulation as the market changes. High-speed trading firms...

“Compression continues to work, reducing the spider web of derivatives transactions while leaving the wanted exposures intact,” said Kevin McPartland, head of market structure research at Greenwich Associates.

In a new report, entitled Move Over, Neighbor: EMS Establishes Residency on the Desktop, 70 percent of the 258 global buyside traders surveyed reported using third-party execution management systems. Also in the survey, 61 percent of the respondents...

Analysts who sell their research to investors are “trying to make sure they’re spending their time and effort on the right information for the right clients,” said Kevin McPartland, an analyst with Greenwich Associates, a financial services advisory...

Liability management is a concern among Canadian plans because more DB plans remain open there than in the U.S., particularly among corporate pension funds, and thus liabilities among Canadian plans will grow faster than in the U.S., said study...

“There are some large investors that will only do business with a primary dealer,” said Kevin McPartland, head market-structure analyst with financial-services consulting firm Greenwich Associates. “The intangible credibility that comes along with...