Dedicated FX
trading reserved for
best-in-class asset
management firms
Key findings from: the 6 th Alpha Trader Forum Foreign Exchange June 2017
It is always inspirational to host the Alpha Trader Forum (ATF)
for the industry’s top foreign exchange buy-side trading
talent. It never stops surprising us that the buy side who
participate in our ATF foreign exchange debates put so much
thought and excellence into their firm’s foreign exchange
trading process and that there are still a large proportion of
firms that outsource this process entirely to custodians. From
an overall best execution process, one could question if the
rarity of inhouse foreign exchange trading functions may be
a neglected area of potential performance improvement for
funds.
One major concern of the buy side at the 6th European
ATF foreign exchange was to identify the behavioural
trends of the market in order to determine the right time to
Autumn 2017
trade and the appropriate strategies by trade size. With an
electronic market for Spot, there are already possibilities to
leverage technology to autom