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The UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) defines 'gig economy' workers to include individuals who use an online platform to:
A 'sell-side' investment firm is one which offers services including:
*Provide transport using their own vehicle (e.g. Uber)
* Brokering
*Deliver food or goods (e.g. Deliveroo)
* Dealing
*Perform short-term jobs (e.g. TaskRabbit)
* Providing derivative products and solutions
*Undertake other similar services.
* Advisory services
* Investment research




<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Policy-makers struggling with gig economy'''''</span>
Sell-side firms are contrasted with 'buy-side' firms, which are the corporate and other customers of the sell-side firms.


:"Some see it as part of a general shift of work towards less secure and more exploitative employment; others see it as creating a new form of flexible working that gives individuals new choices about how, when and where they work.


:"... policy-makers and others are struggling to come to terms with the phenomenon and what it might mean for employment practice, employment regulation and the quality of work.
==See also==
*[[Building a Debt IR function]]
*[[Buy-side firm]]
*[[Derivative instrument]]
*[[Hedging]]


:"The gig economy has not, as yet, fundamentally changed the nature of work in the UK...
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
 
:"The conventional employment statistics, however, do not provide a complete picture because some forms of atypical work cut across the distinctions between permanent and temporary. For example, many people on zero hours contracts - and many agency workers - have permanent contracts.
 
:"Moreover, employment law recognises a category of ‘worker’ between employee and self-employed which is not reflected in the employment numbers."
 
:''To Gig or Not to Gig, March 2017, p2 - Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development.''
 
 
== See also ==
* [[Agency]]
* [[IR35]]
* [[Unicorn]]
* [[Zero hours contract]]

Latest revision as of 09:07, 2 July 2022

A 'sell-side' investment firm is one which offers services including:

  • Brokering
  • Dealing
  • Providing derivative products and solutions
  • Advisory services
  • Investment research


Sell-side firms are contrasted with 'buy-side' firms, which are the corporate and other customers of the sell-side firms.


See also

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