Of Broker Dealers, Machine Learning, Capital Utilization, and Profitability

Over the past couple of years I have had the good fortune to discuss the need for improved understand of profitability and capital utilization in broker dealers. Discussions on the need to find the right clients to meet the balance sheet utilization mix meander with no clear end in sight. Investment managers are moving their books of business, not based upon desire, but based upon the BD needing to achieve the correct balance sheet mix. BDs are looking at return on capital as much as profitability of clients. Machine learning is a field of artificial intelligence that involves developing self-learning algorithms.