buy-side

We've built demand on the buy-side and are now reaching out to sell-side partners who are interested in moving the market forward.

The great thing about this is, automated traders don't capture the value they're creating by bidding the spread down: the buy-side does!

Our next-generation platform is focused on building a community for the buy-side, sell-side, and technology providers, bridging the Wall Street and the FinTech startup spaces.

Why is the buy-side in the driver's seat now?

But all too common on the buy-side, e.g.

Are you referring to the buy-side of CP?

It seems like the kind of thing you could A/B test but I don't work on the buy-side so I'm not sure what they do.

The biggest change since the financial crisis is that the buy-side (mutual funds, hedge funds, pensions) is now in the driving seat for determining what the future of markets look like.

There are plenty of relative value hedge funds that would take the other side of buy-side flows, if they had access to a market where they could show their trading intentions anonymously.

The idea was that after 4-5 years you leave for a buy-side gig (hedge funds, private equity) that pay you the same or more ($1-5M in your early to mid-30s) but with more reasonable hours.

There's been a lot of concentration in assets under management among a few top buy-side institutions while dealers have reduced their risk tolerance/balance sheet and been displaced by electronic market makers, relative value hedge funds, and proprietary trading shops.

> The idea was that after 4-5 years you leave for a buy-side gig (hedge funds, private equity) that pay you the same or more ($1-5M in your early to mid-30s) but with more reasonable hours.

The best-known purpose (or "intention") of a dark pool is to allow huge buy-side institutional investor to move large blocks of securities.

Worth adding: by "cheaper", he means "for every dollar a directional, buy-side, long-term investor spends on a security, fewer pennies are allocated to middlemen than in the era before universal electronic trading".

> much of the commercial world is thinly veiled NSA work While security agencies of various governments are on the buy-side on the "zero day" vulnerability market, majority of commercial "cyber" security companies are not dealing in "cyber weapons" and are not involved with NSA.

Buy-side infrastructure funds and their intermediaries bidding on regulated energy assets (Australia-only at the moment).

Buy-side fund management: Should be easy to get in as an analyst with this experience.