High Line Advisors
Publications

Publications

Work written for banks, broker-dealers and investment managers since 2011. Every paper downloads as a PDF, without registration and without an email wall. Where a paper is published under licence, the licensee is credited on the paper itself.

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Financing Risks Revisited: A fresh look at best practices for securities finance and delta-one derivatives

More than three dozen best practices for banks and broker-dealers engaged in securities finance and delta-one derivatives — a roadmap to a robust business model, and a toolkit to diagnose existing practices.

2023 19 pp Panoramix Partners
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Reinventing Equity Research as a Profit-Making Business

Research priced and managed as a business in its own right, rather than as a cost of distribution.

2017 27 pp McKinsey & Company
Beyond the Hype: Blockchains in capital markets

Where distributed ledgers change market structure, and where they do not.

2015 32 pp McKinsey & Company
Equities Content and Context: Comparative business models among banks and broker-dealers

What separates the economics of one equities franchise from another.

2012 16 pp McKinsey & Company
The Future of Prime Brokerage: Applying the lessons of the financial crisis

What the crisis taught about financing hedge funds, and what the industry kept doing anyway.

2011 22 pp McKinsey & Company
Out of the shadows: Central clearing of repo, a transparent market structure for cash borrowers and lenders

The case for clearing repo, argued from market structure rather than from regulation.

2011 24 pp McKinsey & Company
Streamlining Equities: Ten operating strategies for competing in today’s markets

Ten operating strategies for an equities business under margin pressure.

2011 6 pp McKinsey & Company
Collateral Management: Best practices for broker-dealers

Collateral as an operating discipline, and where the risk sits when it is not one.

2011 8 pp McKinsey & Company
Institutional Investor Coverage: Managing clients across multiple products

Coverage models for clients who buy several products from the same firm.

2011 28 pp McKinsey & Company

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