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Buy Side

The institutional investors that buy most securities available for sale on Wall Street. See also: Sell side.

buy side

The portion of the securities business in which institutional orders originate. In most instances, the buy side is limited to institutional buyers such as pension-fund portfolio managers. Individual investors are usually excluded from the buy side because they are not considered formal participants in the securities business. Compare sell side.

Buy side.

Institutional money managers, such as mutual funds, pension funds, and endowments, are the buy side of Wall Street.

Buy-side institutions use proprietary research to make investments for the portfolios they manage and don't interact with or make recommendations to individual investors.

In contrast, sell-side institutions such as brokerage firms act as agents for individual investors when they buy and sell securities, and make their research available to their clients.

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While Fidessa has operated a worldwide network offering buy side companies with connectivity since years, the new service allows firms to concentrate on their core operation and outsource their entire connectivity infrastructure to Fidessa.

United States : FIDESSA renews its buy-side connectivity service

Now, the sell side, smaller in size but not necessarily stature, is flanked by a beefed-up and certainly more sophisticated institutional investor buy side which is spearheading more of its own research and hiring third-party supplemental research providers.

Ramping up communications to the buy side: given the reconfigured research community, public company CFOs need to re-learn how to most effectively communicate with institutional investors. An investor-relations expert provides some clues

For the buy side, JavTrader consolidates trade details and automatically routes them to Javelin's service bureau, JavCentral.

JAVELIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC. LAUNCHES JAVTRADER AT SIA 2001

New Research Examines How the Buy Side is Divvying up Slender Commission Budgets as the Research Payment Model Shifts toward a More Unbundled Structure

Buy-Side Firms Embrace a More Formal Method of Evaluating Core Brokerage Services, Says TABB

However, according to TABB Group in new research focusing on trends in CSAs, the buy side is now in a better position to solve the complexities of commission management based on recent advances in technology and services.

TABB Says US Buy Side Now is Better Positioned to Manage Complexities of Commission-Sharing Agreements (CSAs)

Industry Barometer" Examines Buy Side and Sell Side Opinions Covering High Frequency Trading, Co-Location, Trade-At Rule, Depth of Book Trade-Through, Stub Quotes and Large Trader Reporting Rule

TABB Group Says Confidence Level in US Equity Market Structure is Highly Polarized Across the Marketplace since the May 6 Market Crash

However, McPartland notes, brokers' ability to provide trading platforms gratis to all of their buy-side customers will shrink in the next three to five years as TABB Group believes the buy side will begin paying for these connections as brokers follow a cost-conscious approach to order-flow acquisition.

Buy Side Firms are Streamlining Desktops, Integrating Order Management (OMS) and Execution Management Systems (EMS), Says TABB

Addressing the relationship between the buy side and sell side, McPartland says that although no single broker currently dominates across all Asian markets, over 90% of buy-side firms are unwilling to give brokers full discretion over their orders.

International Demand for Linkage to ASEAN Exchanges Set to Drive Increased Equity Market Trading, Says TABB Group

6 Billion in Commissions as Two Thirds of the Buy Side Scrutinise Execution Services that Brokers Offer

European Buy Side Shifts 12% of Order Flow from Sales Traders as Liquidity, Risk Capital and Blocks Disappear, Says TABB

Platform consolidation and the search for efficiency are driving many buy side firms to look for a new OMS or EMS, but the current difficult financial climate has caused overall spending on these platforms to drop.

OMS or EMS? Nearly Half of All U.S. and European Buy-Side Firms are Currently Considering a Change of Trading System Despite the Complexities Involved

This illustrates that the methodology we use doesn't favour big firms at the expense of smaller vendors - instead, it seeks to acknowledge outstanding service, innovation, and the ability to specifically address the needs of the buy side, which RIMES Technologies has clearly achieved.

RIMES Wins 'Best Data Provider to the Buy Side' Award for the Second Consecutive Year

LONDON -- RIMES Technologies, the leading integrator of financial data for the investment community, has won the 2007 Best Data Provider to the Buy Side Award.