Joe Scafidi

As Director of Trading at Brandes Investment Partners, Joe is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the global trading desk and oversees the global trading strategy; including the execution of all institutional and private clients sub-advisory wrap portfolios and program trading. He is most recently looking closely at the impact of unbundling on research and broker-relationships. Joe has 21 years of prior experience on the sell side, and extensive product knowledge in both foreign and domestic equity markets, as well as 12 years of experience managing trading professionals and building positive relationships with institutional clients. His vast experience on the sell side and subsequent move to a prominent position managing a buy side trading desk, gives him a brilliant overview of divergent trader skill sets and best practice management skills.  He will be sharing these understandings about how to prepare for unbundling to streamline your trading costs, so that they  factor in research and execution payments.