As sweeping regulations are about to take hold in Europe, impacting both buy and sell side financial firms in the US, many of the smaller players are unprepared for the changes, according to a TABB Group report. MiFID II regulations and the unbundling of research and commissions will alter the buy and sell side landscape. This comes as the report reveals that close to half of all buy-side market participants call the equity market structure unfair and ineffective. MiFID II unbundling of research likely to have sweeping impact across the globe Sweeping MiFID II regulatory changes coming out of Europe…
TABB: Institutional Investors See "Their Very Existence" Under Pressure
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.