NEW YORK, July 08, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG (NYSE:ITG), a leading independent execution broker and research provider, today released the results of a survey of Chief Financial Officers at leading US hedge funds. The poll addressed some of the key business challenges hedge fund CFOs face in the evolving capital markets landscape. Among the key findings:
- Changing financial rules and regulations are the most pressing issue on these CFOs minds, according to 47% of respondents, followed by the need to streamline compliance processes (37%).
- European moves to unbundle research payments from equity trading commissions are a clear concern, with 49% of hedge fund CFOs very or somewhat concerned.
- If Europe moves towards a “hard unbundling” of research payments from commissions, 65% of the CFOs surveyed said they would likely segregate the accounts of their European clients in order to continue using Commission Sharing Agreements (CSAs) for the non-European clients, while 35% said they would consider ending the use of CSAs altogether.
- Some 51% of the hedge fund CFOs surveyed already pay for at least some of their research using hard dollars (i.e. dollars from the fund’s management fees, not funds generated through trading commissions).
- Hedge fund CFOs rely on their peers to keep abreast of changes in the marketplace: 45% cited conversations with their fellow finance and compliance professionals as their main source of updates, followed by content from their brokers or vendors (31%) and content from business or trade publications (24%).
The survey polled more than 40 attendees of ITG’s CFO dinner in New York in late June, from funds ranging from $50 million to $14 billion in assets under management, representing a collective total of more than $115 billion in AUM.
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