How useful is independent research? Heard of MiFID II?

In this episode of Swings & Roundabouts, Marc Kennis of TMT Analytics and Stuart Roberts of NDF Research explore the wide-sweeping implications of MiFID II, particularly for company research.

Photo credit: Frederick Kearney Jr

In this episode of Swings & Roundabouts, Marc Kennis of TMT Analytics and Stuart Roberts of NDF Research explore the wide-sweeping implications of MiFID II, particularly for company research.

MiFID, or Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, is the  EU’s investor protection legislation. MiFID was applied in Europe in 2004 to regulate firms who provide services to clients linked to ‘financial instruments’ (shares, bonds, units in collective investment schemes and derivatives), and the venues where those instruments are traded.

The upcoming changes, referred to as ‘MiFID II’, take effect in January 2018.

 

Key topics covered in this podcast include:

  • Why Australia needs to be better prepared for MiFID II

  • The state-of-play in Australia between brokers and researchers, and how this differs from practice in Europe

  • Why the changes under MiFID II are likely to mean more transparent research outcomes, greater allocation of research work, and fairer competition among analysts

  • Independent research case studies you probably haven’t heard about

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Disclaimer
 
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