Morgan Stanley is still on top in Asia.
The firm has once again been recognized as No. 1 for trading and execution in Institutional Investor’s eighth annual All-Asia Trading Team.
Morgan Stanley extended its reign to three years in II’s polling of traders of Asian ex-Japan equities. Respondents were asked to rate their brokers across high-touch, Delta One/ETF, portfolio, and electronic trading, based on various attributes for each category. The attributes were then aggregated to produce the best brokers overall across pan-Asia and in the four sub-categories.
Institutional Investor polled traders of Asian ex-Japan equities asking them to rate brokers on various attributes for trading and execution and the attributes were aggregated to produce the best brokers overall.
The attributes were:
- High-Touch Sales Trading - Access to Block Liquidity
- High-Touch Sales Trading - Access to Small- & Mid-cap Liquidity
- High-Touch Sales Trading - Maintaining Order Anonymity
- High-Touch Sales Trading - Minimize Market Impact High-Touch Sales Trading - Quality of IoIs
- High-Touch Sales Trading - Service Quality
- Electronic Trading - Algorithm Customization
- Electronic Trading - Algorithm Performance
- Electronic Trading - Market Access & Transparency
- Electronic Trading - Service Quality & Support
- Electronic Trading - Transaction Cost Analysis
- Portfolio/Program Trading - Client Service Quality & Support
- Portfolio/Program Trading - Global Market Access
- Portfolio/Program Trading - Index & Portfolio Research
- Portfolio/Program Trading - Pre and Post Trade
- Portfolio/Program Trading - Reliability of Settlement/Back Office
- Delta One/ETF - Access to Differential Liquidity
- Delta One/ETF - Price Improvement