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Discount Brokers: Disruption, Bundling, and the Battle for the Mass Affluent; Part 2

Related Post: Discount Brokers: Disruption, Bundling, and the Battle for the Mass Affluent; Part 1 Interactive Brokers Sustainably profiting from a commodity service like trade execution requires, at the very least, a low cost advantage, which in the brokerage space belongs to Interactive Brokers.  Despite realizing ~half the commission dollars per trade, Interactive generates the highest […]

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Discount Brokers: Disruption, Bundling, and the Battle for the Mass Affluent; Part 1

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I define culture as the set of unspoken assumptions that guides behavior.  Whether it intends to or not, every company has a culture.  However, not every culture, even ones underpinned by values that make the world a better place, confers competitive advantage.  From the perspective of value creation, the question is not so much is […]

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Quick Blurbs [Alliance Data, American Express, Bank of America, Interactive Brokers, CarMax, Supervalu]

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[IBKR – Interactive Brokers] Partly due to an exceptionally low volatility trading environment, which has made it difficult to earn profits and which Petterfy says may continue “indefinitely,” the company is winding down its options market making operations. While the company will use the excess capital from market making to further support its brokerage operations, the […]
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[IBKR – Interactive Brokers] Low Volatility Weighing on Commissions; Valuation Still Attractive

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IBKR began as an electronic market making platform for professional traders at a time when market making was still mostly being conducted via open outcry.  Its foundation of technology and automation ensured transactions at the lowest cost and fulfillment at the best possible price, core capabilities that it later brought to bear in launching its brokerage […]

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