With MiFID II Approaching Many Fund Managers Plan On Doing Without Brokerage Research

Why smaller hedge funds could be most impacted by new EU rules on research

With MiFID II, sweeping European regulations changing the face of brokerage research, bearing down, market participants are acting “like a deer in headlights,” according to one brokerage executive. Another report notes that the most numerous segment of the research consuming demographic is planning to simply forgo paying for research altogether. But could the US Securities and Exchange Commission provide large international banks, brokerage firms, and asset managers relief?