The Best Practices of Trade Execution: From Forecasting to Execution and Outcomes

Every dollar of idle cash has a cost. For public entities managing bond proceeds, reserves, or capital project funds, the gap between knowing how much you must invest and actually putting it to work (well and on time) can mean tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost income.

This session follows that gap from start to finish including from forecasting a future cash need, to building an investment strategy around it, to watching a live institutional trade get executed, to seeing exactly what good execution is worth.

DebtBook and Sterling Capital Management will walk through the full lifecycle side by side, each speaking to the part of the process they know best.

What You'll See

• The Scenario: How DebtBook's cash-flow forecasting tools give finance teams visibility into when a future cash need will actually arrive, without ever making an investment recommendation.
• From Cash Need to Investment Strategy: How that forecast becomes an actionable plan: applying investment policy constraints and building an illustrative allocation across policy-approved investments.
• Inside an Institutional Trading Desk: A live look at how Sterling's trading desk sources eligible securities across markets, works dealer networks and price discovery, and executes with best execution in mind.
• Execution Matters: A side-by-side look at the outcomes: idle cash versus suboptimal execution versus institutional execution, and what that difference is actually worth in dollars.
• Trading Execution Best Practices: A practical checklist covering policy, documentation, risk management, and execution, informed by both a treasury management platform and an institutional asset manager.

Who Should Attend

Treasurers, controllers, debt managers, and finance officers at public entities and nonprofits who manage bond proceeds or reserve funds, and anyone curious about what happens between "we have money to invest" and "we got it right."

Speakers

• Gregory Zage, CFA® - Executive Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Head of Fixed Income Trading

• John Barrett, AIF® — Director, Client Strategist, Sterling Capital Management

• David Edwards — Director of Solutions Engineering, DebtBook