Integrated Solutions
The Outsourced Trading Desk
Outsourced trading to optimize performance from trade execution to settlement
Stay ahead of the unprecedented pressures falling on buy-side trading desks by building an efficient, cost-effective and compliant execution solution.
Investment managers are at a tipping point, faced with structural pressures from multiple sources: rising costs, lower fees, increasing regulation and mounting compliance costs, rapid technology change and more.
Northern Trust’s Integrated Trading Solution – brought to you by Northern Trust Securities Inc - helps asset owners and asset managers alleviate some of these pressures by outsourcing the trade lifecycle. It is an opportunity to meaningfully lower costs, reduce risk, manage regulatory compliance and enhance transparency and operational efficiency.
By outsourcing trade execution, managers can focus on their core capabilities, their value proposition and their clients, which positions them to compete more effectively in the battle for alpha.
Agency-only execution
Northern Trust Securities Inc (NTSI) is an agency-only broker, acting only on instructions received from clients. NTSI does not engage in proprietary trading, portfolio management or advice, corporate finance, or investment banking.
Depth of trading expertise
Our expert teams in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific – the three key trading regions - offer over 200 years of combined buy and sell-side trading experience across large, mid, small cap, program trading and emerging/frontier markets.
Access to greater liquidity
Our market position as an agency-only broker-dealer within a custody bank means we are able to offer clients access to more than 80 markets and dozens of pools of liquidity around the world.
Technology
We are investing in solutions that meet the execution needs of our clients. Our Straight-Through-Processing architecture integrates data flows through front, middle and back office systems – reducing the need for manual intervention and creating operational efficiencies.
Regulatory Oversight
Our independent Compliance team is embedded in our business, to provide oversight, advisory, monitoring, surveillance and reporting activities.
Best Execution
Best Execution matters and we offer a comprehensive reporting and analytics solution to help clients demonstrate execution performance and satisfy their regulatory reporting obligations.
Multi-asset class and instrument coverage
We execute equities, fixed income, currencies, options, ETFs and AIM stocks across 80+ markets and 31 trading venues
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Northern Trust Transition Management trading performance is compared to average trading performance of ITG's Peer Group Universe, a universe composed of approximately 225 buy side clients and $2.8 trillion of trading on a quarterly basis. All comparisons are based on Implementation Shortfall from order arrival through execution. Costs are denoted as positive values; negative costs represent gains. Only realized trades were included in the Northern Trust Transition Management average cost numbers; no other filtering was applied. Orders with costs greater than the absolute value of 10,000 bps were removed from all of ITG's Peer Group Universe averages. Days to completion represents the average number of full trading days over the order horizon. Micro Cap data is not included as it represents less than 1% of total trade volume for both Northern Trust and the broader ITG Peer Group Universe.
Northern Trust Securities, Inc. (NTSI) is registered in Australia as a foreign corporation and is exempt from the requirement to hold an Australia financial services licence (AFSL) under the Corporations Act. NTSI is authorised and regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission under US laws, which differ from Australian laws.
Best execution is the requirement to take all reasonable steps to obtain the best possible result when executing transactions on your behalf. Best execution takes into account price, speed, likelihood of execution and settlement, costs, size, and nature of the transaction, or any other consideration relevant to execution. Some of these factors will have a higher priority than others, and the relative importance may alter when appropriate. Determination of such priority will vary, as certain financial instruments trade within differing conditions, and change according to order size and available liquidity. When executing orders on your behalf, Northern Trust Securities, Inc. will take all sufficient steps to achieve Best Execution for your orders. Northern Trust Securities, Inc. has policies and processes designed to obtain the best possible results on a consistent basis.
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