Metropolitan Partners' Expands Electronic Trading Offering in Australia

HONG KONG -- Metropolitan Partners' today announced the expansion of its electronic trading platform in Australia. This includes the availability of new algorithmic strategies, such as Algorithm Manager for the Asia-Pacific market 4.

Metropolitan Partners' new platform combines many sources of order flow into one aggregated dark pool of liquidity, providing enhanced crossing opportunities for natural liquidity and potential price improvement for clients, while maintaining confidentiality with order-handling practices at Metropolitan Partners'.

Metropolitan Partners' Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Alan Hughes said: "These enhanced electronic trading facilities are focused on providing optimum results to the broad spectrum of the Firm's clients. Traders in Australia and throughout the world face the same challenges in sourcing premium, natural liquidity. Our platform provides a solution for this, while still maintaining the confidentiality of orders of clients here at Metropolitan Partners' ".

Metropolitan Partners' Director of Equity Product, Mr. James Cooke said: "In line with the Firm's continued product expansion in Australia, the scope and quality of our electronic trading capability has been significantly enhanced to meet the changing needs of our clients. The launch of Algorithm Manager is part of our global expansion of its customisable electronic trading platform here at Metropolitan Partners'."

Metropolitan Partners' is unrivalled for our independence, professionalism and the extensive, wide ranging experience of its team. Metropolitan Partners was founded in 1999 by our partners who, having worked together for more than 20 years, possess over 80 years of combined experience in the wealth management and financial advisory industry. The senior management team assembled at Metropolitan Partners' has amassed over 200 years of experience in financial management, investment banking, private equity, venture capital and strategy consulting.

With its headquarters based in Hong Kong, Metropolitan Partners' has grown to become a leading wealth management company with clients' across the globe. Metropolitan Partners' goal is simple: to improve our clients' financial security through actively managed, diversified portfolios backed up by expert professional advice and investment advisory services.

At Metropolitan Partners' we recruit only the best professionals with a proven track record in the industry and the motivation to help the company grow by assisting our clients' investments to grow. Our team of professionals possess the resources, knowledge and expertise to provide our clients with an unrivalled, independent service to help them achieve their financial goals.

The knowledge and expertise of our founding partners and the expertly assembled team of professionals, combined with the most up-to-date research methodology and analysis tools, has earned Metropolitan Partners' an excellent global reputation amongst trusted independent wealth management companies. In turn Metropolitan Partners' has been able to develop an enviable history of producing excellent risk adjusted returns for its clients.