More than 700 of the world’s leading Institutional investors continue to rely on Liquidnet, the global institutional trading network, to implement the large trades their portfolio managers need to enhance performance.

For April, Liquidnet’s average execution size in North America was 43,000 shares in the US and 65,000 shares in Canada. Globally, Liquidnet’s average negotiated execution size year to date (through April) was USD1.3 million USD.

Liquidnet Members continued to dominate the market block volume in the stocks they traded through the network. For the month, on average, when Members traded a US stock they represented 39% of the day’s market block volume in that stock and for small cap stocks that percentage rose to 55%. In addition, in the month of April Liquidnet Members traded the largest execution of the month in 474 different US securities further illustrating that the they are executing in size that is increasingly difficult to find elsewhere.