Sentences with phrase «bond trading desks»

Here the Wall Street bond trading desks exploited another blind spot in the rating agencies» models.

Those ex-wirehouse brokers benefit from HighTower's growing scale and ability to force everyone from bond trading desks to RIA custodians to compete for their business.

Having been on a risky bond trading desk in the 1990's, I can attest first - hand that trading desks have the ability to hide risky or bad positions from a bank's upper management.

Not exact matches

«The credit trading desk at AllianceBernstein is consistently on the cutting edge,» Amar Kuchinad, CEO of the bond - trading platform Electronifie, told Business Insider last year.

On the other end of the scale, Schwab will only let you search investment grade bonds online (you must call the bond desk to trade junk), will only let you buy online (you must call to sell), and does not allow limit orders at all.

In exchange for a basket of 51 % global stocks, 26 % bonds, 13 % cash and 5 % each in commodities and real estate — much like a portfolio Mr. Salem oversees — the institutional trading desk at one major investment bank was willing to offer a guaranteed rate, after fees and inflation, of 1 %.

Goldman's trading desks, which are weighted toward bonds, currencies and commodities, struggled this quarter, as did those at its competitors JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Bank of America.

Institutional investors have, at their disposal, sophisticated trading desks, analysts and technology platforms for trading bonds.

Institutional investors have, at their disposal, sophisticated trading desks, analysts and technology platforms for trading bonds.

A block trading desk can access unseen liquidity and leverage a liquidity provider's inventory of bonds.

He pulled the numbers on corporate bond ETFs and compared it to the inventory trading desks were holding — a rough measure of liquidity.

Prior to joining Christie's in 2008 he worked for five years on Wall Street at Citigroup and Barclays Capital on their bond capital markets and corporate derivatives trading desks.

TA has become the dominant methodology for predicting stock, bond, commodity and currency market cycles worldwide and is used by ALL major investment banks and international trading desks as the underlying basis for TRILLIONS of dollars in DAILY investment transactions.