SS&C Blog

BLOGS. June 16, 2021

Employee Trade Monitoring is Important During Extreme Market Volatility

It has been widely reported that retail investing has been booming, fueled by a combination of “Reddit meme stocks” and the use of stimulus money by first-time investors[1]. There have been well-documented cases of employees at broker-dealer and investment advisory firms being distracted by the gamification of the stock market and the use of apps that have made access to markets easier than ever.