One-stop trading shops: still a pipe dream?

For some time, buy-side demand for multi-asset trading platforms seemed to boil down to a relatively limited number of ex-sell side hedge fund managers with an especially loud proverbial megaphone, specific technology requirements, and complex trading strategies. (Hefty amounts of start-up capital didn’t hurt, either.)
But as complicated investments and instruments become more commonplace across the buy side, the need for more integrated trading systems able to support managers’ changing