Testifying Witness and Consulting Witness as part of the legal team formulating, testing, and documenting arguments.
Lead an independent assessment of the current trading operating models across multiple Trading Desks, investment products, and business lines.
Benchmark trading strategy to industry best practices: end-to-end trading lifecycle, TCA, commission management/brokerage relations, algorithmic trading, and trading technology.
Integrate with the Internal Audit Department to assess the current state of governance processes, policies, and procedures. Provide industry expertise on optimal control structures.
Multi-year engagement: Consulting Witness as part of the legal team formulating, testing, and documenting arguments.
Multi-year engagement: Advisor to the Best Execution Committee. Assess and offer improvements to the best execution process, equities execution, and liquidity strategy.
Multi-year engagement: Enhance Trading personnel KPIs, incentive program, and Trading Department reporting structure.
Multi-year engagement: Testifying Witness and Consulting Witness as part of the legal team formulating, testing, and documenting arguments.
Multi-year engagement: Engage current TCA provider to enhance OMS trade extract data quality, benchmarking criteria, peer analysis, small/mid-cap trade analytics, and Best Execution Committee reporting.
Lead the implementation of a Supplemental (Outsourced) Trading Desk relationship and establish execution quality analysis framework. Develop a program trading supervisory governance model.
Multi-year engagement: Advisor to the Trade Management Oversight Committee (TMOC) and Executive Leadership Team.
Lead Supplemental (Outsourced) Trading Desk needs assessment, vendor selection process, and contract negotiation.
Multi-year engagement: Enhance the Trading Desk structure, policies, and procedures. Design and implement an enhanced liquidity sourcing strategy. Design and implement a Trading Analytics (TCA) framework.
Multi-year engagement: Expert Witness and Fact Witness as part of the legal team formulating, testing, and documenting arguments.
Multi-year engagement: Lead Supplemental (Outsourced) Asia Trading Desk needs assessment, vendor selection process, contract negotiation, implementation, and establish execution quality analysis framework.
Multi-year engagement: Deliver global strategic initiative, governance, compliance, and regulatory advice. Active Best Execution Committee participant.
Conduct a trading desk operating model assessment.
Conduct an independent assessment of the current trading operating models across investment products and business lines.
Assist the advisory firm’s client with the strategy and selection of a new trading platform solution and integrated systems.
Benchmark trading strategy to industry best practices: end-to-end trading lifecycle, TCA, commission management/brokerage relations, algorithmic trading, and trading technology.
Assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the controls related to the trading desk, best execution activities, and identify potential areas of improvement.
Build the commission unbundling and brokerage research strategy: research consumption tracking, broker relations/negotiations, trading commissions, and research payments.
Conduct an investment technology assessment.
Guide client segmentation, engagement, product development, and analytics strategy.
Offer a practitioner perspective of the Canadian Insurance Companies that own investment managers.
Provide insights into the Asset Management Industry.
Discuss best practices around outsourcing Investment Operations and market segment vendor solutions.
Define Outsourced Trading client segmentation & acquisition, trading technology, talent management, economic model, execution quality, and competitor value proposition strategies.
Provide due diligence guidance on early-round investment in an automated market-making firm:
Provide insights and perspectives on Outsourced Trading providers: Independent, Prime Brokers, and Custodians. Discuss trends in the decision-maker selection process, desired asset class expertise, competitive landscape, and expected growth areas.
Articulate the Fund Management Data & Analytics' current state. Identify the Data Value Chain:
Benchmark Investment Technology solutions.
Share insights and perspectives on Equity Trading Platforms: Exchanges, Alternative Trading Systems, Future Disruptors.
Discuss best practices for running standardized Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs).
Provide Asset Management industry positioning and insights.
Share insights and perspectives on the intersection of the Insurance & Asset Management industries.
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site, you accept our use of cookies.