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Bank Brokerage Commission Is Down So Much, Hard To Drop Further

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Mark Melin
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As the stock market bull run has been on a “tear” since 2009, with the S&P 500 up near 350% from the financial crisis bottom, brokerage commissions have not been so lucky. A Greenwich Associates report notes that the total institutional equity wallet is down 40% since 2009. More recently, commissions are down 13% year over year, extending the difficult brokerage trend and leaving a $1.3 billion hole in brokerage firms commission revenue. A combination of factors has led to the revenue drop, with the good news being the painful trend may be bottoming.

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.