The US buyside broadly favours the sellside’s increasingly holistic approach to serving their equity trading needs, but is concerned that the move to combine high and low-touch trading may compromise the service they receive.

Although 85% of senior and head traders at US buyside firms prefer an integrated team of high and low-touch traders, such teams need to be carefully constructed, according to a survey of 41 senior and head traders by capital markets consultancy Woodbine Associates.