Buy Side vs Sell Side | Top 7 Differences | Compensation - YouTube

Channel: WallStreetMojo

[11]
hey there folks welcome to Wallstreetmojo Investment Banking tutorial and
[16]
today stop against sell side vs buy side now sell side vs buy side is a
[23]
very general topic alright now sell side people or sell
[29]
side firms are the ones which are trying to pitch some idea to the buy side
[36]
so typically in an investment banking setup if you see JP Morgan or Citibank
[44]
or Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley you know these are the kind of firms which
[51]
would be pushing their ideas to the hedge fund managers or or a portfolio
[59]
manager of an education fund or a pension fund you know so in this kind of
[65]
setup all of the people who are buying the idea are or the firms who are buying
[72]
the idea are the buy-side firms and the firms which are selling the idea are the
[80]
sell-side firms so if you look at the example here so what is it
[89]
so sell-side is associated with the entities which facilitate the
[93]
decision-making of the buy-side entities and the buy-side is associated with the
[99]
entities that are involved in the making of investments so buy side are the ones
[105]
which are putting in the money as you can understand it this way the buy side
[111]
of the ones were putting in the buck who have got deep pockets who are deep
[116]
pocketed investors who are setting on the sunny side of the table and
[122]
sell-side people are the poor ones who are just
[125]
you know pitching their idea to the buy side you know who were just pushing the
[130]
stocks were just pushing their research reports to the people who are buying
[136]
them right so these are the poor chap who work in the
[141]
investment banks you know day in and day out they did do all the research and
[148]
they come up with the reports they make them look jazzy you know that people buy
[154]
them and as a result you know they just get bought so
[161]
these are the overall differences you know it's with a
[166]
high-level perspective all right now let us also look at the institution's
[172]
involved so in a sell side typically we've got investment banking then
[178]
commercial banks stock brokers and then the market makers so basically all the
[185]
entities who wants to just push their products
[188]
who wants someone to buy something all right
[191]
and on the other hand in the buy side the entities involved are hedge funds
[197]
like I've already mentioned asset managers institutional investors and
[202]
retail investing so these are the folks who are putting in the buck who will be
[209]
you know investing in the idea who will be making you know investing decisions
[216]
so to speak all right now let us look also the goals that is look the goals of
[221]
all the or off the buy side and the sell side so sell side firms are firms
[226]
looking to pitch and sell assets or opportunities while on the other hand
[232]
the buy-side firms are the firm's with capital
[236]
they have deep pockets and looking to buy assets or opportunities so sell-side
[242]
are given the opportunities and buy-side firms are you know grabbing the
[248]
opportunities with their money now the structure well on the on the sell side
[256]
we've got analyst associate vice-president and managing director
[261]
from a hierarchical a point of view and on
[266]
on the buy side we've got portfolio manager then researcher and marketing
[270]
person so it is a little leaner in the buy side as compared to the sell side
[278]
now the lifestyle as you can see here on the screen the sell side guys are the
[284]
ones who are you know burning the midnight oil
[288]
so working more hours so you know typically in an investment banking setup
[294]
someone you know a person who would be putting in a lot of lot of time and
[300]
research and they would be putting up all this in a report so that they can
[306]
sell it to the buy side people while on the other hand if you look at the buy
[310]
side their life is a bit easier you know they just have to ascertain where the
[316]
money has to go or where the investment has to be made you know so they just
[321]
have to be smart enough to understand the investment investments okay so their
[329]
life is easy and let's look at the the work of the analysts so in Empire in a
[336]
in a sell side in a sell side you know they give buy sell recommendations and
[340]
the reports are available to the public domain to the public you know and they
[345]
can access it and depending upon what is given in the report they can make a
[351]
decision to invest or not to invest alright while on the other hand for buy
[357]
side analysts they use the report like I was like I've said created by the sell
[362]
side analysts and carry out their own analysis further so if they they want to
[368]
analyze it further they can very well go ahead and do that but then they also use
[372]
the material which is prepared by sell side folks and lastly the compensation
[379]
so the sell side folks who are putting in more efforts who are working really
[386]
hard for making the making things together they're you know got paid less
[394]
and I know you're thinking that you know that's not fair but
[399]
that's a fair game in the investment banking sector while on the other hand
[404]
if you look at the buy side folks you know they are they are making more money
[408]
and that's because of their smartness you know to understand where the money
[414]
needs to go you know that needs a certain acumen and and the buy-side
[419]
folks have that so that's why they are paid more anyways oh I hope you've had
[425]
fun and bye for now