Institutional equities

The institutional equities sales team accommodates a range of institutional equity needs and offers expertise in equities research, sales trading services and electronic execution services.

Institutional clients including investment fund, mutual fund and hedge fund managers can benefit from our strong positioning in the Australian equities market.

Equities research

Provides comprehensive equities research to institutional investors. Equities research is supported by the Commonwealth Research team, which offers a superior standard of economic, foreign exchange, commodities, credit and debt outlooks.

Our equities research reviews the top 100 Australian listed companies as well as a growing selection of small caps. Research incorporates a unique top-down approach and focuses on:

• Predicting margin shifts rather than fundamental company analysis
• Microeconomic factors and the deep drivers of industry structure
• The sustainability of business market share
• Forward looking perspectives seeking out triggers that will have a significant impact

Sales trading services

We provide superior sales trading skills and seamless execution services.

As one of Australia’s largest brokers by volume traded and top ten brokers by number of trades, CommSec can offer significant and distinct trading advantages to clients trading in the Australian share market. A team of experienced traders focus on providing trade monitoring and execution to ensure optimal coverage for all types of trading activity, especially those trades requiring anonymity.

Electronic execution services

We provide Direct Market Access to institutional investors.

CommSec is one of the largest Direct Market Access (DMA) brokers in Australia. The direct access order routing solutions are tailored to conform to institutional in-house requirements and meet the high standards and demands of professional investors.

The large through-put of orders and broad spread of client types ensures no individual client or client type dominates trading volumes. This diversity provides anonymity – essential to low impact execution.

The CommSec DMA framework can accept order flow over numerous international order routing platforms or via FIX connections to proprietary order management systems. A range of technology partners are specifically engaged to suit individual investor requirements, and include Australian domiciled organisation IRESS Market Technology Limited which designs, develops, markets and supports trades.

Offshore partners include GL Trade, Bloomberg, ORC Technology, Reuters and Radianz Transaction Network Services.

CommSec offers its own clearing services.

• Important information about advice
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