A New York-based prime brokerage head says he expects that the average cost to a hedge fund manager of using prime brokerage services will increase by five to 10 basis points over the coming year. "It’s too small to have a market impact for managers," he says, "and, in any event, priorities have shifted away from selecting a prime broker based on cost."
The price increase, he says, will occur as those prime brokers that, before the sub-prime crash, were underpricing their services in order to compete, have now been forced out of the market, or forced to increase their commissions in line with the industry. "The average cost across the industry will therefore naturally be higher. There is also the...
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