BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 13, 2003–Macgregor, a global provider of buy side trade order management systems (OMS) and FIX network services, today announced that it will be hosting a series ofevents this Fall on best execution. The series, targeted towards buy side institutions and hedge funds will be making stops in New York, Boston, Chicago and San Francisco. Several leading firmsincluding Citigroup, Credit Suisse First Boston, FlexTrade Systems, Inc., GSCS, ITG Inc., Lava Trading, Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley & Co., Quantitative Services Group, Plexus Group Inc. andSpear, Leeds & Kellogg are sponsoring the series.
“With increasing pressure on the buy-side to satisfy internal, client and regulatory requirements, we decided to host a series of events that would provide a complete overview of the topic and offer practical solutions to measuring and achieving best execution”, said Rob Flatley, COO of Macgregor. “To do that we have assembled the industry’s preeminent thought leaders on best execution and developed a highly interactive full day program that is being broken down into three critical areas; Algorithmic Trading Strategies, Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) and Aligning Trades with Execution Strategies.”
“Macgregor is well suited to host these seminars on best execution,” said Larry Tabb, President & CEO, The Tabb Group. “Macgregor has always made best execution a priority as evidenced by the advancements they have made over the past eight years in the areas of electronic trading and advanced trade execution services. They are also at the forefront of the OMS space today with respect to the work they are doing to integrate pre- and post-trade transaction cost analysis tools into their OMS.”
The 2003 Macgregor Best Execution Series will be making stops in the following locations:
-New York, October 27th, The Cornell Club
-Boston, October 29th, Le Meridian Hotel
-Chicago, November 13th, The Palmer House Hilton
-San Francisco, November 20th, Park Hyatt Hotel
For complete details on the agenda, speakers and sponsors visit www.best-executions.com.
About The Tabb Group
The Tabb Group is the leading firm focused on Financial Markets thought leadership. Founded by Larry Tabb, a 23 year financial markets veteran and founder and seven year leader of TowerGroup’s Securities & Investment practice The Tabb Group focuses industry knowledge into practical application helping firms better understand, create and execute their technology visions.
About Macgregor
Founded in 1991, Macgregor has set the standard in trade order management systems for the global buy-side investment community. Macgregor’s unique architectural approach to developing workflow solutions is embodied in its Extended Order Management System, Macgregor XIP, which combines powerful decision support, compliance, trading and post-trade tools with a fully integrated and supported FIX network. This system helps move information through the entire investment process with increased speed, accuracy, and efficiency, resulting in better investment performance. The Macgregor FIX Network (MFN) provides the ultimate in liquidity with connections to over 190 broker/dealers and nine ECNs and alternative trading systems.
Macgregor’s extended architecture affords its clients and partners the efficiencies and power that can only be achieved through a large, diverse and well-connected community of users. With over 220 employees located in offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London, Hong Kong and Madrid, Macgregor helps more than 90 of the largest institutions in the world manage over $5.5T in global assets.
